The Florida First Coast Chapter of the American Concrete Institute recognized Jacksonville Dodge as a significant concrete structure at the 2004 awards banquet. Jacksonville Dodge is designed with two levels of parking over the service and body shop at the rear with the showroom at the front. The rear structure utilizes pre-cast concrete components; double tees, beams, spandrels, columns, and shear walls on a cast-in-place shallow foundation. The showroom structure is steel framed and uses the concrete structure for lateral resistance.

Jacksonville Dodge:
Structural Engineer: Bryntesen Structural Engineers, Inc.
Architect: Winningham, Bundy & Tice, P.A.
Contractor: Autobuilders General Contracting Services, Inc.
Owner: Automotive Management Services, Inc.

We’ve moved! February, 2006 we opened our new office doors at the southwest corner of Federal highway and Oakland Park Boulevard. Coined adaptive reuse, the new office was originally designed by Architect Dan Duckham in the mid-seventies as a night club named “Montego Bay”. As many of you remember! Over the years it opened under several less than memorable names, and had remained vacant for about seven years before it came to our attention.

It took eleven months and three hurricanes to restore the structure and prepare it for occupancy under the “change of use” guidelines. It’s a great place to work and we are fortunate to have saved this Fort Lauderdale icon from the fate that so many of Dan’s projects from this period have suffered. Visiting Fort Lauderdale in April, Dan dropped in one morning for a look. He came back again in the afternoon. I believe he’s pleased.