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Duval hotel occupancy up 40.5% from a year ago
PlansDaily for a Time Out Sports Grill Record stirs Orthodox Jewish neighborhood JACKSONVILLE
The pandemic recovery continues with 78.2% of rooms filled in March.
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BY MAX MARBUT ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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Duval County March hotel occupancy was 78.2%, a 40.5% increase compared with March 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic closed hotels for the last two weeks of the month. The average daily rate was $90.83, about 5% less than the 2020 average. Revenue per available room, $71.03, was nearly 34% better than 2020. Room revenue in March saw a nearly 37% gain over 2020 to $40.6 million. Recovery from the pandemic continues, with year-to-date occupancy at 69.2%, a growth of 1.9% compared with the first three months of 2020. The average rate is $83.81, and revenue per room is $57.96, a decrease of 12.9%. January through March room revenue was $95.4 million.
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Matt Harris, the owner of Time Out Sports Grill, wants to transform the former Village Inn at 10140 San Jose Blvd. into the second location for his restaurant. The plans have met with neighborhood concerns about traffic, parking and noise.
Matt Harris wants to open his second location in a closed Village Inn near three synagogues. BY DAN MACDONALD CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A Jacksonville entrepreneur wants to balance neighborhood safety and respect for religious tradition with a business expansion in his former neighborhood. Matt Harris, the owner of Time Out Sports Grill, wants to open a second sports restaurant, Time Out Sports Grill
Mandarin, at 10140 San Jose Blvd., the site of a Village Inn restaurant that closed in 2016. Harris went before the Jacksonville Planning Commission on April 22 to seek a zoning waiver to serve beer, wine and liquor at the restaurant and an exception to serve it outside on a patio he proposes to add. The 5,000-square-foot building abuts
a subdivision at San Jose Boulevard and Haley Road and it is near a school and four places of worship. The surrounding neighborhoods are home to practicing Orthodox Jews, who do not use modern conveniences like cars, cellphones and electricity during the Sabbath from sundown Friday
Occupancy by area March hotel occupancy by area compared with a year ago, according to Visit Jacksonville. Area Occupancy Change Arlington 87.5% 41.3% Beaches 86.1% 63.4% Downtown 73.4% 65.7% Northside 72.1% 29.3% Southside 79.3% 40.7% Westside 85.3% 33.4%
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Permit issued for $1.1M Blue Orchid build-out The city issued a permit April 22 for Blue Orchid Thai Cuisine to renovate a Riverside building for its second restaurant. Robert Mayhugh is the contractor for the $1.11 million project at 1551 Riverside Ave. The architect is Doherty Sommers Architects Engineers Inc. Blue Orchid Thai Cuisine owners Jeff and Bam Schofield are building-out a 4,450-square-foot former dermatology office at what is now called Riverside Village near Memorial Park. Jeff Schofield said Blue Orchid could be open in September.
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