A week after issuing the demolition permit, the city signed off on construction for the new Burger King to be built at 7725 Lem Turner Road in Northwest Jacksonville.
It’s part of the franchise owner’s plans to renovate or rebuild its area restaurants to meet franchise standards.
North Coast Construction Co. of St. Augustine will build the new 2,920-square-foot, 53-seat restaurant at a cost of almost $1.75 million. It also is the contractor for the $20,000 demolition of the existing 3,171-square-foot structure.
The current restaurant was built in 1971 on the 1.21-acre site west of Interstate 95 near Edgewood Avenue West.
Royal Restaurant Group of West Palm Beach bought the restaurant as one of the 24 it acquired in 2023 in Northeast Florida.
The franchise owner also is renovating a West Jacksonville Burger King.
The city issued a permit June 24 for a $200,000 renovation to the group’s Burger King at 7320 103rd St. in West Jacksonville. Southport Construction of Clearwater is the contractor.
“We will be renovating several in the area and (will) bring fresh new Burger King images to Jacksonville,” said Randy Pianin, co-founder and CEO of Royal Restaurant Group LLC, in November.
Both restaurants are in design for Burger King’s Garden Grill concept. Gershen Associates of Miami is the architect for each.
Burger King’s Garden Grill concept first circulated internationally in 2011. North America President Tom Curtis told QSR Magazine in October 2023 that by the end of 2024, nearly half of domestic stores would have the Garden Grill and new Sizzle look.
Curtis told the magazine that in a good number of Garden Grill units, if the foundation is solid, the conversion is not necessary to knock it down.