- April 24, 2024
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A vacant plot of land on the western side of U.S. 1 at Palm Coast Parkway may become a medical/educational campus, although the identities of the businesses or facilities that would locate on the 88.6-acre site remain undisclosed.
The city of Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Regulation Board voted 7-0 at a Nov. 4 meeting to approve a master planned development agreement for the site.
Attorney Michael Chiumento, representing the applicant, said he could not yet discuss the identity of the site's potential users because of contract issues.
"We are hopeful that we will be able to place there entities — multiple entities — that would create a campus-style setting that would be both educational and medical," Chiumento told planning board members. "And hopefully, as that grows, there would be ancillary service businesses to support those jobs."
How many jobs the proposal would create, he said, isn't yet clear.
"We should have some better optics and clarity on that in the next month or so," he said. "If this project comes to fruition, it will, again, be a mix between educational and medical service — medical providers, doctors, those types of things, and potentially even some research."
The site is on land that is already zoned general commercial. The uses would be consistent with that zoning designation, which allows for medical offices, hospitals, retail, restaurants and institutional uses, Palm Coast Senior Planner Jose Papa said.
Papa said the proposed development would provide services in areas that are not currently served by its proposed use, and that those uses are consistent with surrounding properties.
