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Catullo’s Italian Restaurant to open in Nocatee in late 2022
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The founding brothers started as a food truck and then opened in San Pablo.
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Pattillo plans speculative warehouse
BY DAN MACDONALD STAFF WRITER
An Italian restaurant that started as a food truck and then established itself as a popular brickand-mortar store now wants to drive sales with a second store in Nocatee next year. Brothers Carl and Dave Catullo will open Catullo’s Italian Restaurant in Nocatee Town Center next to Palm Leaf Dental, according to a Dec. 3 news release. The restaurant will take the place of St. Johns Eye Associates, which is moving to Town Square Office Park, according to the Nocatee blog. The release said the area’s largest Publix grocery store anchors the center. Both men have an extensive background in food preparation, having worked at Flying Iguana, Lynch’s Irish Pub and Roy’s for 15 years before starting the food truck in 2016. In 2019 they opened Catullo’s Italian at 1650-2 San Pablo Road S. at Atlantic Boulevard and San Pablo Road in the Village Shoppes of San Pablo. They posted Dec. 3 on Catullo’s Facebook page that they will open their second restaurant. They said it was an appropriate way to mark the restaurant’s third anniversary. Their lease begins in September 2022 with plans for a December 2022 or January 2023 opening. “Nocatee, we’re coming. The lease is officially signed,” says a video on the Facebook page. “It will be a slightly bigger place but we don’t want to change the vibe too much,” the brothers said. Bringing Catullo’s Italian to Nocatee is seen as an important SEE CATULLO’S, PAGE 2
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Catullo’s Italian Restaurant Facebook
Brothers Carl and Dave Catullo, owners of Catullo’s Italian Restaurant, announced via video on their restaurant’s Facebook page they plan to open a restaurant in Nocatee. The restaurant is planned next to Palm Leaf Dental in Nocatee Town Center. The restaurant will take the place of St. Johns Eye Associates, which is moving to Town Square Office Park, according to the Nocatee blog.
The 172,867-squarefoot Imeson Road Building 2 is at Westside Industrial Park. Pattillo Industrial Real Estate is launching development of a speculative warehouse at 6040 Imeson Road in West Jacksonville, one of the city’s largest industrial markets. The city is reviewing permit applications for the foundation and construction of a 172,867-square-foot center at a cost of $15.4 million. “We are starting construction immediately,” Pattillo Vice President Peter Anderson said Dec. 5. Anderson He expects completion by Aug. 31. Anderson said the building is designed for multiple tenants. A Pattillo brochure show it is divisible for tenants of at least 40,000 square feet, Dana B. Kenyon Co. is the contractor. The structure is called Imeson Road Building 2. It is available for manufacturing, distribution and warehouse tenants. It is one of two speculative
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The Marina at Ortega Landing sold for $12.75 million The Marina at Ortega Landing was sold Nov. 30 for $12.75 million. Marina at Ortega Landing Inc. of Northbrook, Illinois, sold the property to Port 32 Ortega Landing LLC of Charleston, South Carolina. The 0.6-acre marina, at 4234 Lakeside Drive, was built in 2007. According to the marina website, it comprises 192 boat slips from 45 feet to 70 feet including a 130-foot T-dock. The marina amenities include a pool, spa and a clubhouse. Outdoors there are gas grills, umbrellas, a fire pit and heaters. The clubhouse includes a kitchen, 70-inch flat-screen TV and Wi-Fi.
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