The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE) late Thursday announced plans to relocate its corporate headquarters to Beckrich Office Park near the corner of Panama City Beach Parkway and Richard Jackson Boulevard in Panama City Beach, Florida. The company plans to occupy a portion of a third office building that is currently under construction in the office park. The company expects the relocation to occur in mid-2020.

This announcement comes at a time when St. Joe is actively developing and constructing several projects in Panama City Beach and throughout Bay County. “This relocation will put us closer to many of our key projects,” said St. Joe President and CEO, Jorge Gonzalez. “Our future home at Beckrich Office Park puts our team in close proximity to several residential, hospitality and commercial projects that we currently have in development.”

The St. Joe Co. corporate HQ, under construction.
The St. Joe Co. corporate HQ, under construction.

St. Joe currently has 12 projects under construction or in development in Bay County including eight in Panama City Beach and intends to initiate additional projects before the end of the year. These projects include hotels, new residential communities, Pier Park Crossings apartments and the Latitude Margaritaville Watersound 55+ community among several others.

For many years, Beckrich Office Park has featured two, two-story office buildings. Beginning in the spring of this year the office park has been undergoing some major additions. In March, St. Joe broke ground on a stand-alone Starbucks on a portion of the property. Plans call for this Starbucks to be open in early 2020. Later, in April, St. Joe began the construction of a third two-story office building which will bring the total leasable space at Beckrich Office Park to approximately 100,000 square feet. Plans call for the new office building to be complete in 2020.

The company is actively engaged in conversations with potential future tenants for the remainder of the space in the building that is under construction with available units ranging from approximately 1,000 to 15,000 square feet. “St. Joe’s decision to construct a third office building at Beckrich Office Park not only provides a great space for our future corporate headquarters, but also creates additional Class A office space in the heart of Panama City Beach that will be available to tenants in mid-2020,” said Jordan Rosenau, St. Joe’s director of sales and leasing.

The company plans to re-purpose its current corporate headquarters located just west of Panama City Beach in Watersound, Florida. “This move to Panama City Beach creates a great opportunity to put our current corporate offices to use in a way that will benefit the entire area,” added Gonzalez. “We look forward to announcing those plans later in 2019.”