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The Jacksonville Planning Commission approved plans for Time Out Sports Grill in May.
A group of residents as well as Rabbi Joseph Kahanov of Chabad Lubavitch of Northeast Florida are appealing the May 6 Jacksonville Planning Commission decision to grant zoning waivers for a planned sports restaurant that would allow the sale of all alcoholic beverages and provide outdoor seating. Matt Harris, owner of Time Out Sports Grill at 13799 Beach Blvd., wants to open a second location, Time Out Sports Grill Mandarin, at 10140 San Jose Blvd.
The site at San Jose Boulevard and Haley Road is a Village Inn restaurant that closed in 2016. Application E-21-16 would allow for the sale of all alcoholic beverages in conjunction with the service of food and outdoor seating. WLD-21-04 reduced the distance from a house of worship or a school from 500 to 110 feet. The property is zoned Commercial Community/General (CCG-1). That allows indoor sale of beer and wine as well as a variety of other businesses. The appeal document cites several factors:
The Cecil Commerce Center developer’s quarterly report to the city also says retail could be coming to the Westside business park.
■ The corner of Haley Road and San Jose Boulevard has heavy pedestrian traffic, including children and older adults. ■ Noise concerns about an outdoor bar with televisions. ■ Reports of decreased property values. ■ Concerns about promoted happy hour specials. ■ Lack of parking causing overflow into an adjacent neighborhood. ■ Increased neighborhood traffic from customers looking for access to Scott Mill Road.
Matt Harris, the owner of Time Out Sports Grill, wants to open a second location at 10140 San Jose Blvd. in a former Village Inn restaurant. “We are 100% opening. We have a lot of excitement in the community and the company. I think it is going to be a huge success. We are going full throttle no matter what,” Harris said.
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Hillwood: Amazon set for fourth quarter completion
Hillwood expects to complete the Amazon.com sortation center at AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center during the fourth quarter of 2021. Dallas-based Hillwood also continues talking with a developer that is interested in building a retail facility. Hillwood included the information in its first-quarter report to the city about its activities at Cecil Commerce Center. As the city’s master developer at the Westside business park, Hillwood is required to report quarterly activity. The firstquarter covers Jan. 1-March 30, 2021. For Amazon.com, Hillwood said it executed a longterm lease in January for the Seattle-based e-commerce retailer. Hillwood is building a 280,000-square-foot center on Parcel F. Hillwood said that by the end of the first quarter, the slab on grade was completed, half of the tilt wall panels were up and ver-
‘GOING FULL THROTTLE’
BY DAN MACDONALD
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
UNF wins Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant The University of North Florida is among 15 recipients of the first Research Accelerator Grants funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as announced by the COVID-19 Research Consortium, the Health Care Cost Institute and Datavant. The $39,160 award is for the project “Telehealth Disparity: Investigating the Predictors for Low Utilization among Minority Populations.” The grant will provide researchers the resources they need to use the consortium’s health care database to study the direct and indirect impact of COVID-19, according to a UNF news release.
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