Plans for an apartment community in the parking lot of The Avenues mall advanced June 20 with the recommendation of the Jacksonville Planning Commission.
The commission voted 5-0 to recommend approval of Ordinance 2025-0367, which rezones the entire 94.6-acre site of The Avenues from Planned Unit Development to a new PUD that will allow for 266 apartments at the north end of the mall near the parking garage owned by the Dillard’s department store chain. The apartments would be built on a 3.46-acre portion of the mall property.
The current PUD does not permit residential uses on the site.