With construction for a new football facility ongoing at the Jacksonville Jaguars’ current practice fields, the team will be conducting their training camp at a new location this offseason. According to Jags president Mark Lamping, that location will be just two miles away from their current practice fields at TIAA Bank Field at Episcopal High School.
Lamping said the team would be investing money into improving some of the high school’s fields and added that organized team activities, rookie minicamp, and other events would be held at their indoor facility or inside of TIAA Bank Field.
”We’ve been working on these plans for about a year,” Lamping said. ”When we get to training camp, we are going to be working on two grass fields at Episcopal. We’re investing some money to improve a couple of fields over there. It’s a short bus ride but that’s just for training camp. But you know all the OTAs, rookie minicamp and once we start the preseason games, the practices will be held on the game field and in the indoor facility. So we’ll do that for this season.”
Jacksonville’s Building Inspection Division approved the permits for the foundation in February. Jacksonville’s Haskell Company will construct it, which will be 127,087 square feet.
The construction of the facility is part of the process to have TIAA Bank Field renovated. With the team operating out of the stadium, a new facility will allow them to move out whenever a deal is complete. Additionally, the team simply needed more space for operations and the new football facility is expected to help with that as it will feature locker rooms, a weight room, training and medical areas, and more.
The Jags’ offseason workout program will begin on April 11. The whole process will be broken down into three phases, and the information on the program can be found here.
