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Halfway through the fortnight of Wimbledon, tennis is on the minds of more than those in London. Karen Brune Mathis reported last week in the Jacksonville Daily Record that, according to a release from Jacksonville, Florida–based real estate brokerage and development firm PETRA, the ATP — which governs men’s professional tennis, the ATP Tour and the ATP Challenger Tour — is moving its headquarters from a 28,000-sq.-ft. building it built in 1993 in Ponte Vedra Beach to around one-third of that space with an ocean view on the third floor of the new Grand Ocean building in Atlantic Beach. The building is part of the larger Beaches Town Center mixed-use district and is located “close to the Seahorse Oceanfront Inn and The Lemon Bar, now owned by Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan, who plans to redevelop the property as a boutique resort hotel,” Brune Mathis reported. The ATP cited its hybrid workplace strategy as the reason for the move, with fewer than 25 among a total assigned workforce of around 50 showing up in the office on a regular basis.
Sports organization headquarters moves are legion in the annals of Site Selection. Among them are the PGA of America’s move to Frisco, Texas five years ago; the decision 13 years ago by the U.S. Bowling Congress to also make the Texas move, this time from Wisconsin; and moves by the Atlantic 10 Conference to D.C. and the U.S. Soccer Federation to Atlanta documented by Ron Starner last fall. Watch this space for a closer look at the U.S. Soccer move and other soccer and sports impacts on Greater Atlanta in a forthcoming Online Insider exclusive by Site Selection Editorial Intern David Owens.
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