September 24, 2026 — Northeast Florida (First Coast) civic and development activity

• civil engineers: City of Palatka City Commission Meeting, City of Jacksonville Beach City Council, City of St. Augustine Special City Commission Budget Meeting, City of Green Cove Springs, City of Green Cove Springs, St. Johns County
• general contractors: City of Jacksonville City Council, City of Palatka Community Redevelopment Agency Meeting, City of St. Augustine Special City Commission Budget Meeting, City of Green Cove Springs, City of Crescent City
• roofers: City of Jacksonville City Council, City of Palatka Community Redevelopment Agency Meeting, City of Fernandina Beach Historic District Council Regular Meeting, City of St. Augustine Historic Architectural Review Board Meeting
• paving crews: City of Jacksonville Beach City Council, City of St. Augustine Special City Commission Budget Meeting, St. Johns County
• carpenters: City of Fernandina Beach Historic District Council Regular Meeting, City of St. Augustine Historic Architectural Review Board Meeting
• landscapers: City of St. Augustine Special City Commission Budget Meeting, City of Green Cove Springs
• site work crews: City of Jacksonville City Council, City of Palatka City Commission Meeting
• surveyors: City of Palatka City Commission Meeting, St. Johns County
• utility contractors: City of Jacksonville Beach City Council, City of Green Cove Springs
• building material suppliers: City of Palatka Community Redevelopment Agency Meeting
• coastal engineers: St. Johns County
• concrete and masonry contractors: City of Jacksonville City Council
• custom builders: City of Fernandina Beach Historic District Council Regular Meeting
• demolition crews: City of St. Augustine Historic Architectural Review Board Meeting
• electricians: City of Jacksonville City Council
• environmental consultants: St. Johns County
• excavation crews: City of Jacksonville Beach City Council
• handymen: City of Palatka Community Redevelopment Agency Meeting
• homebuilders: City of Palatka City Commission Meeting
• landscape architects: City of Green Cove Springs
• masons: City of Fernandina Beach Historic District Council Regular Meeting
• mobility device retailers: City of St. Augustine Beach
• municipal vendors: City of Crescent City
• painters: City of Palatka Community Redevelopment Agency Meeting
• park builders: City of Green Cove Springs
• plumbers: City of Jacksonville City Council
• property managers: City of St. Augustine Beach
• real estate agents: City of Palatka City Commission Meeting
• suppliers: City of Crescent City
• transit planners: St. Johns County
• window and door installers: City of St. Augustine Historic Architectural Review Board Meeting

Northeast Florida's five coastal cities put 27 items on the public record this week, and 11 of them are development items that point to real work for local contractors.

The week's strongest item is a rezoning in Jacksonville. The City Council is reviewing a request to turn about 10.51 acres at 5156 Norwood Avenue into a planned unit development that would allow a self-storage facility and a JTA training facility. A public hearing is set for October 27.

Palatka carried the most items of any city, seven in all. Its Community Redevelopment Agency awarded eleven Building Improvement Cost Share Grants totaling $244,233.21 for the June 2026 grant cycle. That is direct, near-term work on specific properties, not a long-range plan.

The coastal cities kept their historic boards busy. St. Augustine's Historic Architectural Review Board and Fernandina Beach's Historic District Council both met, reviewing certificates of appropriateness and demolition requests that feed roofing, exterior, and custom building trades.

Budget season is also on the calendar. Jacksonville Beach, St. Augustine, Crescent City, and Green Cove Springs all posted special budget meetings or final budget hearings this week, a sign the fiscal year is turning over.

These are the industries this week's items feed. One item can feed more than one industry, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.

Palatka led the region with seven items, followed by St. Augustine with six.

• Jacksonville's City Council is reviewing a rezoning for about 10.51 acres at 5156 Norwood Avenue and 0 44th Street West. The applicant, Pam, LLC, wants to move the land from PUD (1998-3) and RLD-60 to a new planned unit development that would allow adaptive reuse as a self-storage facility and a JTA training facility, as described in the Gateway Mixed-Use PUD. The item is application Z-7077, and a public hearing is set for October 27.

  A rezoning this size sets up site work, building renovation, and new construction, and the trades that do that work get hired locally.

  Who this helps

  • general contractors
  • concrete and masonry contractors
  • electricians
  • plumbers
  • roofers
  • site work crews

  City of Jacksonville City Council, 2026-09-22

• Palatka's Community Redevelopment Agency awarded eleven Building Improvement Cost Share Grants totaling $244,233.21 for the June 2026 grant cycle. The grants go to specific properties across the city, including addresses on St. Johns Avenue, 5th Street, and North 3rd Street.

  Grant money already committed to specific buildings means near-term work for the contractors and suppliers who do building improvements.

  Who this helps

  • general contractors
  • building material suppliers
  • painters
  • roofers
  • handymen

  City of Palatka Community Redevelopment Agency Meeting, 2026-09-21

• Palatka's City Commission agenda for September 24 carries two annexation requests, each with a future land use map amendment and a rezoning. One is at 503 E Harris Street and the other at 1273 Old Jacksonville Road, both moving from Putnam County residential zoning to City of Palatka residential two-family zoning.

  Annexation and rezoning clear the way for new residential building, which feeds homebuilders and the trades that follow.

  Who this helps

  • homebuilders
  • surveyors
  • civil engineers
  • site work crews
  • real estate agents

  City of Palatka City Commission Meeting, 2026-09-24

• Jacksonville Beach's City Council agenda packet carries several infrastructure items. They include a $300,000 additional construction contingency for the 10th Street South Infrastructure Improvements Phase II, an emergency sanitary sewer repair at Liftstation 18 for up to $263,372, and storm hardening work between 2nd Avenue North and 12th Avenue North.

  Sewer repair, storm hardening, and street work are all jobs that go to local utility and paving contractors.

  Who this helps

  • utility contractors
  • paving crews
  • excavation crews
  • civil engineers

  City of Jacksonville Beach City Council, 2026-09-21

• St. Augustine's special budget meeting packet carries a set of capital improvement project sheets covering work across the city, from West 3rd Street and the Fullerwood neighborhood to Anastasia Boulevard, Red Cox Road, and the bayfront parking pay stations.

  A capital improvement plan spread across several neighborhoods means a steady run of public works contracts for local firms.

  Who this helps

  • paving crews
  • general contractors
  • civil engineers
  • landscapers

  City of St. Augustine Special City Commission Budget Meeting, 2026-09-23

• Fernandina Beach's Historic District Council reviewed several certificate of approval requests at its September 17 meeting, including a final request to reinstall a historic balcony at 212 Estrada Street, a waterfront commercial development at 0 North Front Street, and nine townhomes at 101 Alachua Street.

  Historic district approvals feed the specialty trades that do exterior restoration and custom building work.

  Who this helps

  • roofers
  • carpenters
  • custom builders
  • masons

  City of Fernandina Beach Historic District Council Regular Meeting, 2026-09-17

• St. Augustine's Historic Architectural Review Board met September 17 with a full agenda of demolition and certificate of appropriateness requests, including a full demolition at 8 Hybiscus Avenue, a full demolition at 6 Solano Avenue, and exterior repairs at 33 Aviles Street and 128 St. George Street.

  Demolition and exterior repair work in a historic district goes to the trades that handle careful teardowns and period-correct rebuilding.

  Who this helps

  • demolition crews
  • roofers
  • carpenters
  • window and door installers

  City of St. Augustine Historic Architectural Review Board Meeting, 2026-09-17

• Green Cove Springs gave final approval to its FY 2026/2027 millage rate of $5.2290 per thousand and its annual budget at a September 21 special session. The city also recapped a September 15 session that covered a zoning amendment for 1345 Energy Cove Court and water and wastewater rate changes.

  A zoning amendment for a specific address plus utility rate changes are the kind of decisions that shape what local builders and utility contractors can bid on next.

  Who this helps

  • general contractors
  • utility contractors
  • civil engineers

  City of Green Cove Springs, 2026-09-22

• Green Cove Springs was awarded a $75,000 Community Planning Technical Assistance grant to create a citywide Parks and Recreation Master Plan.

  A parks master plan is the first step toward a pipeline of park construction and landscaping work.

  Who this helps

  • landscape architects
  • civil engineers
  • landscapers
  • park builders

  City of Green Cove Springs, 2026-08-27

• St. Johns County will host a community meeting on October 7 to introduce a preliminary beach trolley concept for South Ponte Vedra Beach and Vilano Beach and gather public input.

  A new transit concept for the beach communities points toward future work for the firms that plan and build transit infrastructure.

  Who this helps

  • transit planners
  • civil engineers
  • paving crews

  St. Johns County, 2026-09-22

• St. Johns County reported that more than 1,000 residents and stakeholders responded to a public survey on beach management and conservation that will help shape the renewal of its Habitat Conservation Plan.

  A conservation plan renewal drives work for the environmental and coastal engineering firms that study and restore beaches.

  Who this helps

  • environmental consultants
  • coastal engineers
  • surveyors

  St. Johns County, 2026-09-21

• St. Augustine Beach reported that its September 8 tentative budget meeting voted to keep the millage at 2.5000 mills with a total budget of $15,555,894, and separately announced approval of Ordinance 26-06 regulating electric bicycles and other mobility devices.

  A settled budget and a new mobility ordinance are the rules local businesses operate under, and they signal what the city will spend on next.

  Who this helps

  • mobility device retailers
  • property managers

  City of St. Augustine Beach, 2026-09-10

• Crescent City scheduled its City Commission Special Meeting Final Budget Hearing for FY 2026-2027 on September 24 at 6:00 pm, and posted its full 2026-27 Budget Ordinance 2026-14.

  A final budget hearing locks in the city's spending plan, which tells local vendors what contracts are coming.

  Who this helps

  • municipal vendors
  • general contractors
  • suppliers

  City of Crescent City, 2026-08-26

The week's record points to two kinds of work. First, the near-term money: Palatka's building improvement grants and Jacksonville Beach's sewer and storm hardening contracts are already committed and will go to bid soon. Second, the longer-horizon planning: Jacksonville's Norwood Avenue rezoning and the annexations in Palatka clear the way for building that starts months from now. Contractors who want the near-term work should watch the grant and bid notices now. Builders and trades who want the longer work should track the rezoning and annexation hearings, because the firms that show up early are the ones positioned when permits land.

This report is built from public government meeting agendas, public notices, and permit records that NewBizAlert collects across Northeast Florida. Every item links to the government document it came from, and the counts are counts of items on the public record for the window. This report covers the most recent seven days of public records, September 17 through September 23, 2026, and nothing is held back for a waiting period.

Frequently asked questions

What is an agenda item?

An agenda item is a single matter a government body lists for a public meeting, like a rezoning request, a grant award, or a budget vote. Each item links to the government document that lists it.

How early is this signal?

Agendas are planned actions, so they often point to work that has not started yet. A rezoning on this week's agenda can mean construction bids months later, which is why watching the agenda early matters.

Why do the industry shares add up past 100%?

One item can feed more than one industry. A single rezoning can create work for concrete, electrical, plumbing, and roofing trades all at once, so the shares overlap.