The city issued five sign permits July 14 for Habit Burger & Grill to put up signs at the closed Bojangles it is converting in South Jacksonville at 13559 Beach Blvd. at northwest Beach and Hodges boulevards.
First Coast Signs & Lighting Inc. of Jacksonville is the contractor for the $24,250 project.
Habit Burger was approved May 6 to renovate the location when the city issued a permit for Falcon Franchise Construction LLC of Fort Lauderdale to convert the 3,875-square-foot restaurant and drive-thru on a 0.83-acre site at a cost of $715,518.
That followed a permit April 8 for landscaping and site work at a project cost of $10,000. The site is near the Beach Haven area.
The Beach Boulevard property owner is shown on a building permit site as JLR Hodges Station LLC. The architect is Lingle Design Group of Lena, Illinois.
Habit Burger & Grill said in November it is opening in Jacksonville in the second half of 2025 because the area’s food culture is growing, with an interest in comfort foods and innovative dishes.
That is “making it a welcoming spot for a Habit Burger & Grill restaurant,” the company said in an email.
“We’ve got Habit Burger & Grills sprinkled across the Sunshine State, and we’re pumped to fire up the grill in Jacksonville,” said chef Jason Triail, director of Culinary Innovation at Habit Burger & Grill, in an email Nov. 7.
Habit Burger said it will hire about 40 people.
Scrapehero.com finds there are 379 Habit Burger Grill restaurants in the United States as of June 25.
There are 12 Habit Burger & Grill locations in Florida, mainly in South Florida with one in Clearwater.
The Jacksonville restaurant will be owned by the company and is not a franchise.
Habit Burger also intends to open near River City Marketplace on land next to BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse at 15022 Max Leggett Parkway and in Baymeadows, where it intends to renovate the closed Arby’s at 9171 Baymeadows Road, east of Interstate 95.