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‘Below Deck’ star seeking restaurant investors
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$9.8M Ponte Vedra home sold in less than 24 hours
Capt. Sandy Yawn says the city should pursue a Downtown Formula 1 race.
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BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
It is the highest-priced home sale this year, and also tops all Northeast Florida home sales in 2020. “In a market like this with a home to
Capt. Sandy Yawn, star of the Bravo reality TV series “Below Deck Mediterranean,” said restoring the building at 618 W. Adams St. where she plans to open the Maritime 618 restaurant may be “too much money.” At the Meninak Club of Jacksonville meeting March 15, Yawn said she and partner Chad Quist are seeking investors for the estimated $5 million project. Yawn “My partner and I go, ‘that’s too much. For a building that people want to save that we can’t save,’ ” she said. “I have hope that I can find another investor.” Yawn announced plans in September to restore the former Fire Station No. 4 in LaVilla and open a nautical-themed restaurant, lounge and club. It is slated to serve “yacht-style cuisine and international seafood and cultural fares.” In September, Quist said construction would start in January and be completed by November on the three-floor facility. Yawn, through Miami Beachbased Yawn Properties LLC, bought the building June 7 for $185,000. “I hope to continue to invest in Jacksonville and brand it a future destination for super yachts and all recreational vessels,” Yawn said in September. “The pride and potential in this vibrant city is infectious.”
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Northeast Florida Association of Realtors MLS photos
An artist’s rendering of the five bedroom, five-and-a-half bath oceanfront home at 1329 Ponte Vedra Blvd. Construction began a year and a half ago and is expected to be completed by the end of May.
A Jaguars coach is the buyer for the oceanfront property at 1329 Ponte Vedra Blvd. The home is the most expensive sold in Northeast Florida this year — and in 2020. BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
Within hours of listing the nearly $10 million home at 1329 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Realtor Rina Stermilli had three offers on the property, a process that typically takes two years for similar multimilliondollar homes. “The home was pretty much off the market within the first 24 hours,” Stermilli said. “I listed the home midday. We had all three offers in writing by 10 p.m. that evening.”
Jacksonville-based Aria Homes is building the house that sits between the Atlantic Ocean and the Guana River about 2.2 miles south of Mickler’s Landing.
She gave the seller, Ocenture founder and CEO Fraser Burns, 24 hours to select a buyer. Several other offers came in during that period, but Burns chose the $9.8 million offer, $273,500 more than the asking price.
Orange Park Medical Center opens patient tower Orange Park Medical Center announced March 9 that two floors of its 101,435-square-foot, five-story patient tower are open at its campus on Kingsley Avenue. The fourth and fifth floors have 48 beds for medical and surgical patients, a news release said. The second and third floors are designed as shell space for expansion. The patient tower brings the hospital’s bed count to 365. The floors are part of a $126 million project that includes an electrophysiology lab, dining room, kitchen, medical office building and neonatal intensive care unit expansion.
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