Nine months after the Trevato Development Group asked the Jacksonville Beach Planning Commission to defer its rezoning request to build apartments on land occupied by Adventure Landing, a new plan is being submitted.
Originally Trevato wanted to build a 427-unit apartment community at the water and entertainment park at 1944 Beach Blvd., and on adjacent property that total 53.8 acres. Adventure Landing makes up 22.2 acres.
The project ran into problems because of a combination of public concern against the project’s size and that much of the original project may have impacted protected wetlands.
The public hearing at the Jacksonville Beach Planning Commission is 7 p.m. Sept. 26 at Jacksonville Beach City Hall.
The new proposal submitted Aug. 25 still calls for a 427-unit apartment building but adds a 2,000-square-foot building designated for a restaurant or coffee shop, according to a company news release.
The apartments would remain along Beach Boulevard.
In July 2021, the original project was estimated to cost $80 million. It called for four three-story buildings that had 8,000 square feet of leasing, club and fitness space. There was a proposed 854-space, four-level parking garage as well as 454 surface spaces.
A Sept. 14 news release from Trevato didn’t include construction costs or parking arrangements.
The new proposal increases the conservation and recreation areas from 6.83 acres to 19.43 acres while reducing the planned land zoned for Community Commercial and Low Density Residential uses by half the original request.
It will condense the mixed-use development portion to 10.9 acres, a 40% reduction in the total land development as permitted by the City of Jacksonville Beach Comprehensive Plan.
Trevato said the amended version will allot 43 acres of open space and conservation land, which will comprise 80% of the property, resulting in a net increase of 18.94 acres of conservation land.
Trevato has added the construction of a viewing platform that will be open to the public.
Trevato Development Group is based in Jacksonville Beach and has other projects there. It is working on The Gallery, a mixed-use project on First Street North and Fourth Avenue North that includes the O-Ku restaurant; a mixed-use project at the former Dolphin Depot at 704 First St. N.; a property at 502 First St. N.; and the renovation of the Surfer Bar and Rip Curl restaurant and nightclub at 200 First St. N.
