Texas Roadhouse proposes to build a restaurant in the St. Augustine Outlets redevelopment in St. Johns County.
It would be the chain’s fourth area restaurant. It operates in the Town Center area and Orange Park and is building in River City Marketplace in North Jacksonville.
St. Johns County received a pre-application March 4 for Texas Roadhouse to construct a 7,646-square-foot restaurant on an outparcel of the outlet mall’s redevelopment at northeast Interstate 95 and Florida 16.
New York City-based Lightstone Group owns and intends to transform the 31-acre St. Augustine Outlets property in a mixed-use development.
The pre-application to the St. Johns County Growth Management Department shows that the site is at Outlet Mall Boulevard and Outlet Centre Drive.
Through LVP St. Augustine Outlets LLC, Lightstone bought the property in 2006 for $42 million.
Lightstone wants to close the mall and develop up to 350 multifamily units and up to 99,500 square feet of retail and commercial space.
It applied June 8 to St. Johns County to modify the St. Augustine Centre Planned Unit Development for the redevelopment.
The St. Johns County commissioners voted unanimously Nov. 16 in favor of redevelopment.
The application said the 332,000-square-foot mall “has been struggling for some time.” It was built in 1999.
The application materials do not mention demolishing the structure, but site plans show development across the entire mall site.
The development at 500 Outlet Mall Blvd. is called St. Augustine Centre on the application.
Texas Roadhouse’s address is shown as 494 Outlet Mall Blvd.
Lightstone said in June it did not have a timeline for closing the mall.
A site plan shows 14 acres for multifamily development and five outparcels of 1.4 to 4.5 acres each.
The application also said a theater of up to 10 screens as well as up to 400 hotel rooms could be part of the plan.
Across Outlet Mall Boulevard, Baptist Health owns 8.5 acres that it bought May 25 from Lightstone Value Plus REIT LP for $6.8 million.
St. Augustine Premium Outlets is less than a mile away on the west side of I-95.
