JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Gateway Jax is transforming Downtown Jacksonville\u2019s Pearl Square into a walkable neighborhood full of dining, wellness and lifestyle businesses.<\/p>\n
The nearly one-billion-dollar development stretches across nine blocks and brings beloved local restaurants like Murray Hill\u2019s Buchnew Biergarten and St. Augustine\u2019s Bar Citra to Downtown.<\/p>\n
Other businesses include PopUp Bagels, Go Greek Yogurt, JETSET Pilates and Pearl Street Nails.<\/p>\n
Also in Pearl Square will be a Publix and a from-scratch Italian restaurant, Colletta.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Gateway Jax CEO Bryan Moll says the entire project will have about 13 different buildings comprised of over 1250 residential units, 1000,000 square feet of office space, 110 hotel rooms and 200,000 square feet of retail.<\/p>\n \u201cOur goal with this development is to create a truly mixed-use walkable urban neighborhood that essentially can have all of the needs that will meet someone\u2019s daily life all within walking distance,\u201d Moll said. \u201cThe idea is really to create the everyday conveniences right at your doorstep.\u201d<\/p>\n He says he hopes this brings new residents downtown.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a ton of pent-up demand for people that want to live downtown,\u201d Moll said. \u201cBut the trick is, in order to build the amount of residential that we are planning to build, and to do it at scale, you really need to have the right type of retail and restaurants that deliver hand in hand with that.\u201d<\/p>\n Michelle Clunie, who lives right across the street from the development, says she hopes it will make downtown safer.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cIt gives us a chance to be able to blend in with a nice community, which we need because we have a lot of homeless people that walk up and down the street, which is not safe,\u201d Clunie said.<\/p>\n She says she\u2019s already gearing up for the change.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re all excited to see how it\u2019s going to turn out,\u201d Clunie said. \u201cI\u2019m going to be one of the first ones over there. I really am.\u201d<\/p>\n Some businesses in Pearl Square are expected to open as early as Fall of this year, and Moll says the entire project should be wrapped up in less than two years.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Gateway Jax is transforming Downtown Jacksonville\u2019s Pearl Square into a walkable neighborhood full of dining,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":955370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[61783,12189,15619,5229,103262,384380,269019,384379,276581,14336,3188,723,384378,269017,17360,11561,7310,425,12654,384381,15900,209737,10622,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-955369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-61783","tag-action_news","tag-action_news_jack","tag-america","tag-augustine","tag-bar_satra","tag-brian_mall","tag-buck_news_beer_garden","tag-casey_stone","tag-ceo","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-gateway_jack","tag-gateway_jacks","tag-hill","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-local","tag-mall","tag-michelle_clooney","tag-murray","tag-pearl_square","tag-st","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116972826574887291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955369","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=955369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}