Design plans are beginning to take shape for the building intended to house a new restaurant in St. Johns River Park on the Southbank.
The restaurant would be adjacent to Friendship Fountain, with visitors passing it just as they enter the park from the roundabout near MOSH. While the restaurant would be run by a private operator, the building itself would be owned by the City of Jacksonville and leased to that third party. An example of this arrangement – municipal ownership with a third-party lessee – is Palms Fish Camp Restaurant on Heckscher Drive in the Palms Fish Camp Boat Ramp Park.
DIA CEO Lori Boyer informed the board that the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) would be able to fund any one of these options in next year’s budget, which will include an additional $3.5 million as this year concludes that CRA obligation to the RiversEdge development.
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