The city issued a permit May 14 for the closed Shrimp Shack Seafood Kitchen, now a gutted building, to be renovated at southeast Beach Boulevard and San Pablo Road.
The city issued a permit for an exterior and interior remodel of the 3,307-square-foot building at 14440 Beach Blvd. at project cost of $750,000.
Vantage Contracting Inc. of Jacksonville is the contractor.
The fast-food structure was built in 2002 as KFC.
The site is at the Intracoastal Plaza anchored by Publix Super Markets Inc. Le Petit Paris French Cafe recently opened nearby in the former Hakka Kitchen, House of Leaf & Bean and originally a Taco Bell built in 1997.
MyShrimpShack.com says the 14440 Beach Blvd. site is temporarily closed and under renovation.
“An all-new look is coming to our Jacksonville Beach location! We’re so excited to bring some fresh flavor to our amazing Jax Beach patrons. Please pardon our dust!”
Shrimp Shack owners Nader and Fadi Abosini bought the Beach Boulevard property from KFC Corp. for $425,000 in November 2014.
The site says the brothers, Nate and Fred, “found their recipe for success in Shrimp Shack.”
The first opened at 646 Blanding Blvd. in Orange Park.
“Our family has been in the seafood restaurant business for generations starting with our father’s first restaurant and market in the early nineties,” says the site.
“In 1996, our family opened our first seafood restaurant on the Westside of Jacksonville where we learned all about creating the perfect atmosphere with the right kind of service to enjoy fresh and delicious seafood,” it says.
“When we set off to start our own place, we knew we could offer the same level of service and quality of a sit-down restaurant, but in a faster, more approachable environment. In 2010, we opened the first Shrimp Shack in Orange Park, Florida.”
The Orange Park restaurant opens at 11 a.m. daily, closing at 9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 10 p.m. Friday-Saturday.
The menu includes appetizers, salads, sandwiches, dinners, combos, desserts, kids meals, side orders and beverages.
Dinners, starting at $13, include shrimp, scallops, fish and chicken strips.