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THE MATHIS REPORT
River City on Main proposed for North Jacksonville
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Ash Properties buys Beach Plaza for $19.4M, plans renovations
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Chance Partners is developing a 234-unit apartment community.
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BY SCOTT SAILER STAFF WRITER
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BEACH PLAZA Beach Plaza City Center at 1200-1398 Beach Blvd. sold for $19.4 million to Ash Properties. The sale does not include the retail building at the lower left, which is separately owned. Tenants include Bailey’s Health & Fitness, Dollar Tree, Jumpstreet Indoor Trampoline Park and the U.S. Postal Service.
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Company plans to continue using the property as a retail shopping center, company COO Randall Whitfield says.
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Ash Properties’ acquisition of Beach Plaza this week was a big step in the area for the Jacksonville-based commercial real estate development company. “We think it’s an excellent investment in the Beaches,” said Ash Properties COO Randall Whitfield on Friday. “We are proud to be associated with it.” It’s Ash Properties largest project at the Beaches. Ash Properties paid $19.4 million for the property.
Beach Plaza City Center, as it is marketed, is at 12001398 Beach Blvd. Property records show the 161,000-square-foot shopping center was constructed between 1959 and 2006. Whitfield Whitfield said Ash Properties plans renovations and to continue the shopping center’s use as a retail property. Major tenants include Bailey’s Health & Fitness, the U.S. Postal Service, Dollar Tree, Southern Swells Brewing Co., Mini Bar Donuts and Jumpstreet Indoor Trampoline Park. “There are great tenants there and we plan to keep them in place,” Whitfield said. SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
Chance Jax MS LLC, a subsidiary of Jacksonville-based Chance Partners LLC, proposes to build a 234-unit apartment community called River City on Main in North Jacksonville. The project boosts Chance Partners LLC’s apartment count in Jacksonville to almost 1,500 units. Chance Partners applied to the city for a mobility fee calculation certificate to build River City on Main on part of a 9.37-acre parcel at 13283 N. Main St. and Drury Lane. The site is in the Oceanway neighborhood near River City Marketplace. The city calculated a mobility fee of $165,350 to mitigate the traffic impact created by the development. Plans indicate three apartment buildings comprising 135 onebedroom 91 two-bedroom apartments and eight three-bedroom carriage units. Plans show 408 parking spaces. Chance Partners Principal Jeff Rosen said construction is scheduled to start in summer 2020. Chance Partners is developing three other Jacksonville projects: n The 228-unit RiverVue in Avondale is open. n The first phase of 284 units of San Marco Promenade opens in February and construction is targeted to start in January 2021 for the second phase of 226 units. n San Marco Crossing is under construction with the first 196unit phase, San Marco Crossing South, scheduled to open in December 2020. The second phase, the 290-unit San Marco Crossing North, will open in spring 2021.
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Florida Cracker Kitchen issued San Marco permit The city issued a permit Thursday for River City Construction Group LLC to convert a San Marco area service garage into Jacksonville’s second Florida Cracker Kitchen. River City is converting the 6,000-square-foot building at 1842 Kings Ave. at a job cost of $230,000. The former “Wimpee Fuel Oil” structure was built in 1937. Brothers Blair and Ethan Hensley hope to open the restaurant by early 2020. That would be two years after they started their first Jacksonville location at northwest Beach Boulevard and San Pablo Road.
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