Plans underway to bring Home Depot to Jacksonville’s Mandarin area, officials say

FILE - Shopping carts are parked outside a Home Depot in Philadelphia, Sept. 21, 2022. Alexandre Henrique Costa-Mota was given nearly $300,000 in fraudulent Home Depot credit by walking into stores in several states, taking expensive doors and then returning them without a receipt, federal prosecutors allege. Costa-Mota, of Connecticut, was detained without bail after a judge entered not-guilty pleas on his behalf this week in federal court in Rhode Island to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. attorney's office in Providence said in a statement Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Man is charged with cheating Home Depot stores out of $300,000 with door-return scam FILE - Shopping carts are parked outside a Home Depot in Philadelphia, Sept. 21, 2022. Alexandre Henrique Costa-Mota was given nearly $300,000 in fraudulent Home Depot credit by walking into stores in several states, taking expensive doors and then returning them without a receipt, federal prosecutors allege. Costa-Mota, of Connecticut, was detained without bail after a judge entered not-guilty pleas on his behalf this week in federal court in Rhode Island to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. attorney's office in Providence said in a statement Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (Matt Rourke/AP)

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Plans are underway to bring a Home Depot to Mandarin where an old Kmart once stood.

The property is located at 9600 San Jose Boulevard, near Old St. Augustine Road.

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A spokesperson for Home Depot shared the following statement:

“Right now, all I can tell you is that this store is slated to open in fall of 2025. I’ll follow up with more details as I have them.”

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Jacksonville City Council member Michael Boylan shared the following information about the property:

“All I know is what someone from Ash Properties told me and allowed me to share, that Home Depot has signed a lease for that property. No other details.”

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Action News Jax told you in 2019 when Sun-Ray Cinema planned to take over the space with a five-screen theater, but that ended up not coming to fruition.

We will update this story with more details as soon as they become available.

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