10:27 AM EST Share Johnson Commons is a 91-unit community planned on 3.45 acres next to Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing Park.
Johnson Commons LLC’s for-sale town house project in LaVilla is a step closer to breaking ground.
The Downtown Development Review Board voted 7-0 on June 10 to grant conceptual design approval for the 91-unit community on 3.45 acres next to Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing Park.
The three-story town houses are a joint project of JWB Real Estate Capital LLC and Corner Lot Development Group.
Johnson Commons finished second to Vestcor Companies Inc. in a 2019 Downtown Investment Authority request for proposals to develop the city-owned site, bounded by Adams, Lee, Houston and Forsyth streets.
Owners of the 32-acre mixed-use Southbank project The District said two parcels designated for luxury town houses are under contract for sale.
Ramiro Albarran, Preston Hollow Capital LLC managing director of origination and structuring, told the Downtown Development Review Board on May 13 that the company executed a deal for the parcels, which face a marsh on the site’s southeast corner.
Albarran said Dallas-based Preston Hollow is under a confidentiality agreement and did not disclose the buyer.
The District project engineer, Bill Schilling of Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc., said the parcels will be developed by “a luxury, high-end homebuilder.”
Ramiro Albarran, Preston Hollow Capital LLC managing director of origination and structuring
The Downtown Development Review Board said a proposed Home2 Suites by Hilton in Brooklyn can have a surface parking lot despite its staff’s objection that it conflicts with the area’s design code.
The board voted 6-0 May 13 to grant final design approval for the six-story, 100-room hotel at 600 Park St. a joint project of Kelco Management and Development Inc. and Corner Lot Development Group.
Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow attorney Cyndy Trimmer, who represents Kelco and Corner Lot, said the structured parking garage required by the Downtown Zoning Overlay would not be feasible or financially viable for the 10,720-square-foot hotel layout.
Related Group submitted designs to the city for the restaurant it agreed to build as part of its $99.16 million apartment community on the Downtown Jacksonville Southbank.
The Miami-based developer seeks conceptual approval for the restaurant design and final approval for the RD River City Brewery apartments at the May 13 Downtown Development Review Board meeting.
The 327-unit multifamily project and restaurant would replace River City Brewing Co. at 835 Museum Circle, west of Friendship Park.
The view of the restaurant from the St. Johns River.
A DDRB staff report and renderings released May 6 show a restaurant with 3,200 square feet of outdoor dining space, a 914-square-foot indoor dining area and 883 square feet for kitchen and storage. That totals 4,997 square feet.