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Design of Ashley Square senior housing wins approval
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Peloton plans store at St. Johns Town Center The interactive fitness company will sell bikes and treadmills.
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An artist's rendering of Ashley Square, a six-story, $15 million senior housing community planned at Beaver, Ashley and Newnanstreets in the Downtown Cathedral District.
The 120-unit unit community is planned for the Downtown Cathedral District. BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
Ashley Square, a proposed sixstory senior housing community in Downtown’s Cathedral District, passed its final review. The Downtown Development Review Board gave final design approval in a 7-0 vote Nov. 14 on the 120-unit development. Tampa-based Blue Sky Communities LLC and nonprofit Aging True Community Senior Services will invest $15 million to convert a 1.03-acre parking lot into
96 one-bedroom, 650-squarefoot units and 24 two-bedroom, 900-square-foot units. The lot is bordered by Beaver, Ashley and Newnan streets, west of the Stevens Duval Apartments. The site plan also calls for a 160-space, ground-level parking garage with the apartments built above it. The development is an independent living community for people age 62 and older and people with disabilities. The project received conceptual approval from DDRB in April 2018. Developers were seeking a height deviation for the 62-foottall building. The revised Downtown zoning overlay approved by SEE ASHLEY SQUARE, PAGE 2
Monthly rents planned for Ashley Square are $725 for a one-bedroom unit and $870 for a two-bedroom unit.
Peloton Interactive Inc. plans to open a retail showroom for its exercise equipment at St. Johns Town Center. The city is reviewing a permit application for Peloton, based in New York City, to build-out a 3,228-square-foot showroom at an estimated cost of $800,000. Peloton intends to open at 4663 River City Drive, Suite V15. The location is the site of Tommy Bahama, which plans to relocate early next year across the street to a larger store that will include a Marlin Bar. It will be the seventh Peloton in Florida and one of at least 75 in the U.S. Peloton said it operates 81 showrooms in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom and Germany. Peloton will stock treadmills, bikes and offer a trial test lounge. No contractor is listed. Howell Belanger Castelli Architects of New York City is the architect. According to onepeleton.com, the company was founded in 2012 to create a new concept in fitness — developing an indoor SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
Fish Island acquired by state Fish Island, a 57-acre maritime hammock forest and preserve on the Intracoastal Waterway southeast of the Florida 312 bridge on Anastasia Island, was acquired Nov. 21 by the state of Florida for $6.5 million. The deal was announced by the North Florida Land Trust, which negotiated the deal with property owner Fish Island Development LLC. The money to buy Fish Island is from the Florida Forever program and was approved by the Florida Cabinet in July. The site will be managed by the city of St. Augustine.
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