WEDNESDAY October 13, 2021
Public
jaxdailyrecord.com • 35 cents
legal notices begin on page 3
Daily Record JACKSONVILLE
Southgate Plaza may become apartments
Daily Record Hwy55 Burgers, Shakes & Fries plans first Jacksonville location THE MATHIS REPORT
JACKSONVILLE
Chance Partners is applying to rezone the property in St. Nicholas near San Marco.
Daily Record Daily Record JACKSONVILLE
BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
JACKSONVILLE
Photos special to the Daily Record
Hwy55 Burgers, Shakes & Fries is planning its first area restaurant along Commonwealth Avenue east of Interstate 295 in West Duval County.
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
The North Carolina table-service restaurant chain with 128 locations intends to break ground early next year in West Jacksonville.
Hwy55 Burgers, Shakes & Fries, a 30-yearold North Carolina chain, intends to open its first Jacksonville area restaurant next year along Commonwealth Avenue east of Interstate 295 in west Duval County. Area developer and franchisee Jeremy Bond said his group has the rights to open locations in Georgia and North Florida. He has two Hwy55 restaurants in Kingsland and Waycross in Georgia that came with the territory. He expects groundbreaking early next year for a third-quarter opening on the West Jacksonville restaurant. Hwy55 is a table-service brand started by Kenney Moore as Andy’s Cheesesteaks & Cheeseburgers. The menu includes burgers; cheesesteaks; chicken cheesesteaks and sandwiches; shrimp burgers and po’boys; salads; hot dogs; BLTs; grilled cheese; platters; kids’ meals; sides; and frozen custard, sundaes, shakes and floats. Adam Wiggins, senior vice president of marketing, said the company has 128 locations on 11 states. A dozen are corporate-owned and the others are franchised. The hwy55.com site says it focuses on eight Southeastern states.
Hwy55 Burgers, Shakes & Fries area developer and franchisee Jeremy Bond said his group has the rights to open locations in Georgia and North Florida.
A JEA service availability report shows that Hwy55 plans to build a 2,453-square-foot restaurant on 1.1 acres at northeast Commonwealth Avenue and Danmac Lane, east of Suemac Road. SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
Jacksonville-based Chance Partners applied to rezone the Southgate Plaza shopping center at 3428 Beach Blvd. to allow for multifamily development. The site is in the St. Nicholas area and not far from San Marco and the Downtown Southbank. A Chance Partners spokesperson said the developer is in rezoning and expects to break ground in June 2022 on the 18-month project. A site plan shows three fourstory buildings with a pool and courtyard in the center of one. The number of units is not shown, but Chance is applying to rezone the property from CCG-1 to PUD, which would allow up to 40 units per acre. The property is 9.48 acres, which would be a maximum of about 380 units. The first hearing for the rezoning will be Oct. 21 at the Jacksonville Planning Commission meeting. St. Vincent DePaul Thrift Store leases space in Southgate Plaza. The PUD application describes the shopping center “as largely vacant for the past 10 years.” Its last major tenant, a Save A Lot grocery store, closed in December 2019. Jacksonville-based Demetree Brothers Inc. owns the property. It last sold in 1986 for $2.6 million. The 140,000-square-foot shopping center was built in 1957. Chance Partners developed several nearby multifamily communities including The Exchange, Barlow and San Marco Promenade.
KGARWOOD@ JAXDAILYRECORD.COM (904) 356-2466
Closed Staples under construction for Marshalls The city issued a permit Oct. 5 for contractor VCC LLC to turn the closed Staples store in St. Johns Town Center into shell space for later tenant build-out for a Marshalls off-price retail store. VCC, of Little Rock, Arkansas, will clear out the store and prepare it for tenant work at a cost of $526,837. Staples closed the office supplies and services store as of July 23. The city is reviewing a permit application for Marshalls to build-out the 23,694-square-foot space at 10261 River Marsh Drive at a cost of $1.2 million.
VOLUME 108, NO. 232 • ONE SECTION