Documents filed with a Downtown Investment Authority committee agenda indicate that the former First Baptist Church main auditorium Downtown, now called NoCo Center and the venue for “Beyond Van Gogh” and other exhibits, would be replaced by a 16-story apartment building with a full-service grocery store as part of the Gateway Jax development.
The development team, which is developing multiple blocks Downtown as mixed-use space, is seeking more than $2 million in city incentives for the grocery store build-out.
It is an expansion of what has been announced so far for the project, which broke ground Oct. 29 on the $45 million Block N11 building at 515 N. Pearl St.