Iguana on Park announced on its Facebook page that it will open Aug. 30 at 3638 Park St. in South Avondale.
Hours will be 11 a.m.-11 p.m. daily.
Featuring Latin American fusion cuisine, Iguana on Park is a sister restaurant to Flying Iguana, which opened in 2013 in Neptune Beach.
It will serve tacos, entrees, spirits and cocktails and offer live music. It says it will serve more than 100 tequilas and a selection of local craft brews.
The lunch and dinner menu includes starters like chorizo and potato empanadas; ceviche; soups and salads; tortas; tacos; and desserts.
Jacksonville restaurateur Al Mansur owns the restaurants.
For Iguana on Park, he renovated the former South Kitchen & Spirits building to include exterior and interior finishes. Mansur bought the building in November.
The build-out space is 7,614 square feet, comprising 6,358 square feet of interior space and 1,256 square feet of covered patio space.
There is interior dining, private dining, patio dining and a bar along with the kitchen and prep space.
Mansur, through Avondale Dining LLC, filed the name “Iguana on Park” with the state.
“It will be a decent amount of work to the building on the exterior and the interior. I want to put our touches on it to make it a cool spot for dining in Avondale,” he said in March.
Mansur owns Al’s Pizza, Flying Iguana Taqueria & Tequila Bar, COOP 303 and Mezza Luna Ristorante. The Iguana on Park and Avondale Dining LLC names are based at the 246 Third St. corporate office in Neptune Beach.
Mansur said in February the South Avondale location reminds him of Beaches Town Center, where he operates COOP 303, Mezza Luna and an Al’s Pizza.
Beaches Town Center comprises stores, restaurants, hotels and more where Neptune Beach meets Atlantic Beach, and where Atlantic Boulevard ends at the Atlantic Ocean.
Mansur opened the first Al’s Pizza in 1988 at Beach Boulevard and San Pablo Road and now has locations in Baymeadows, Riverside, Neptune Beach, Ponte Vedra and St. Augustine.
He opened the Flying Iguana in Neptune Beach in 2013. He built COOP 303 in 2018 at a former Al’s Pizza site in Atlantic Beach.
South Kitchen & Spirits announced Nov. 20 on its Facebook page that it permanently closed the South Avondale location.
The previous property owner bought the site in 2014, demolished the former Yesterday’s Bar in 2015 and developed the existing building in 2015-16.