Jacksonville-based Corner Lot is exploring development of its Atlantic Boulevard and Arletha Road, near Art Museum Drive, multifamily property with a hotel, retail strip center and restaurants.
City utility JEA is reviewing a service-availability determination request for Corner Lot’s nine vacant parcels that total 7.07 acres called the St. Nicholas Planned Unit Development.
“We are looking at a diversity of uses from commercial to housing at the site and want to update the PUD to reflect the best use of the property for the community,” Cornerstone Commercial Development Manager Andre Green said by text April 13.
The JEA request outlines a 122-room hotel, a 10,000-square-foot retail strip center and restaurants. A JEA request means a project is being explored but not that one has been confirmed.
No tenants or users were identified.
Green said Corner Lot has filed a request with the city to update the PUD.
Through St. Nicholas MF Partners LLC, Corner Lot bought the property in 2023 and proposed a multifamily apartment development. The Atlantic Boulevard frontage included the Beach Road Fish House and Chicken Dinners building, which has been demolished.
Almost all of the 7.1 acres is at southeast Atlantic Boulevard and Arletha Road, west of Art Museum Drive.
Meanwhile, Corner Lot also has been exploring adding a 3,956-square-foot gas station and convenience store on an almost 1.8-acre site it does not own at the corner of Atlantic Boulevard and Art Museum Drive. Green said he had no update on that project.
JEA issued a service availability letter March 17 for a determination request.
City utility JEA is reviewing a service-availability determination request for Cornet Lot’s nine vacant parcels that total 7.07 acres called the St. Nicholas Planned Unit Development.
In October 2025, two years after Beach Road Fish House and Chicken Dinners was demolished, Corner Lot proposed to add commercial uses to the site along with the apartments it has been proposing.
“This is one of our active multi-family development sites and we are looking at complimenting it with some commercial uses,” Corner Lot Development Group Executive Vice President Billy Zeits said by email Oct. 15, 2025.
He said Oct. 23, 2025, there was no anticipated timeline for construction to start that he could share.
JEA issued a service availability letter Oct. 3, 2025, to Corner Lot responding to the service availability connections and conditions for the project.
A 2023 availability letter supported 285 multifamily units. The 2025 letter was sought to add commercial uses to the current PUD to include multifamily, retail and food uses.
Zeits said amending the PUD was “an option we are reviewing internally at this point.”
The eight properties specified total 6.6 acres. Plans indicate an almost half-acre parcel within the property outline was not included in the JEA letter.
Zeits said there is an existing JEA lift station on the site which could be that parcel.
In October 2023, it took only a few hours to turn the more than 80-year-old, 4,500-square-foot Beach Road Chicken Dinners at 4132 Atlantic Blvd. into rubble.
Through St. Nicholas MF Partners LLC of Jacksonville, Corner Lot bought the property in February 2023 for almost $2.8 million among four sales to assemble more than 7 acres.
Jacksonville City Council approved legislation Nov. 9, 2022, rezoning the property to planned unit development.
A concept plan dated July 25, 2022, shows an outline for 285 apartments in a five-story building that wraps around an amenity area with a pool and plaza. There also is a dog park.
Corner Lot is actively developing apartment, housing, hotel and mixed-use projects.