The original Beach Road Chicken Dinners sign is for sale.
After the business was sold in 2019, it was renamed Beach Road Fish House & Chicken Dinners, closing in February 2023.
That sign came down as the restaurant was demolished Oct. 25 at 4132 Atlantic Blvd.
Erich Geisler, senior project manager with developer Corner Lot, said Oct. 18 that the “Fish House” and “Chicken Dinners” signs – both on a monument pole – were sold to someone local, but he declined to identify the buyer.
Geisler did not name a price, but invites anyone interested in buying the original sign to call him at 904-551-2540.
He also declined to provide its location.
Open for more than eight decades, the landmark Beach Road Chicken Dinners was turned into rubble Oct. 25 by crews from J.B. Coxwell Contracting Inc.
Jacksonville-based Corner Lot intends to develop apartments at the more than 7-acre site at Atlantic Boulevard and Art Museum Drive.
The restaurant, which started in 1939, served its last fried chicken and fish in February.
Through St. Nicholas MF Partners LLC of Jacksonville, Corner Lot bought the property Feb. 27 for $1.9 million.
Restaurant owners and spouses Nathan Stuart and Margo Klar sold the restaurant through Fish House Holdings LLC.
Stuart and Klar took over Beach Road Chicken Dinners in 2019, leasing the property from owners Ken and Tena Ferger.
The couple bought 1.43 acres of the almost 4-acre parcel from the Fergers in October 2021. Fish House Holdings LLC bought the restaurant site, while the Fergers kept the remaining undeveloped property and sold it to Corner Lot.
Two other property owners also sold their land toward assembling the 7-acre site.
The sold monument sign was on the ground Oct. 30 and the restaurant site was cleared and leveled.
