{"id":517868,"date":"2026-01-15T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/517868\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:12:10","slug":"downtown-investment-authority-board-to-consider-21-million-in-incentives-for-baptist-health-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/517868\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Investment Authority board to consider $21 million in incentives for Baptist Health hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 A nearly $21 million incentive package for a dual-brand Marriott hotel on Baptist Health\u2019s Southbank campus is set for consideration by the Downtown Investment Authority board next week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jan\/15\/downtown-investment-authority-board-to-consider-21-million-in-incentives-for-baptist-health-hotel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jan\/15\/downtown-investment-authority-board-to-consider-21-million-in-incentives-for-baptist-health-hotel\/\">according to News4JAX partners at the Jacksonville Daily Record.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The incentives would help fund the 15-story hotel planned at Palm Avenue and Gary Street, which according to Baptist Health, would comprise 134 rooms under Marriott\u2019s Tribute Portfolio boutique brand and 92 rooms under the global hospitality company\u2019s Element by Westin brand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>RELATED | <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/13\/baptist-health-planning-nearly-110m-hotel-on-jacksonvilles-southbank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/13\/baptist-health-planning-nearly-110m-hotel-on-jacksonvilles-southbank\/\"><b>Baptist Health planning nearly $110M hotel on Jacksonville\u2019s Southbank<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to DIA documents, other elements include 5,200 square feet of conference space, a 5,000-square-foot rooftop restaurant, a 1,000-square-foot ground-floor cafe and a 113-space parking garage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The proposed city incentives comprise a $12.98 million Recapture Enhanced Value Grant and an $8 million completion grant. The completion grant would be paid in two $4 million portions, likely in 2029 and 2030. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Land-use and governmental affairs attorney Steve Diebenow of Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne &amp; Diebenow said rooms would be offered to families of patients receiving care in the Baptist Health campus, but the hotel would be marketed to anyone wanting to stay downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jan\/15\/downtown-investment-authority-board-to-consider-21-million-in-incentives-for-baptist-health-hotel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jan\/15\/downtown-investment-authority-board-to-consider-21-million-in-incentives-for-baptist-health-hotel\/\"><b>Read more at The Jacksonville Daily Record<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A nearly $21 million incentive package for a dual-brand Marriott hotel on Baptist Health\u2019s Southbank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":513010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,58747,2556,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-517868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-baptist-health","10":"tag-development","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115899055797985952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}