Drew Brees-backed burger chain Smalls Sliders is strategizing for another Northeast Florida location, this one in Intracoastal Plaza at southeast Beach Boulevard and San Pablo Road.
The city issued a Mobility Fee Calculation Certificate on Feb. 19 for an 800-square-foot fast-food drive-thru restaurant with no indoor seating on a 0.7-acre outparcel near the Le Petit Paris restaurant. A site dimension plan shows a single drive-thru lane and indicates outdoor seating.
There is right-turn-in, right-turn-out access into the shopping center at the Smalls Sliders outparcel. Intracoastal Plaza is near the western edge of the Intracoastal Waterway and across from Jacksonville Beach.
“We are pleased to welcome Smalls Sliders to a long vacant pad at Intracoastal Plaza and look forward to seeing their unique offering accelerate the positive transformation of the center,” said Ash Properties COO Christian Oldenburg.
SRS Real Estate Partners Senior Associate Grant Burt in Tampa represented Smalls Sliders in the lease negotiations. Clint Murphy and Matt Cangiolosi at Murphy Land & Retail Services Inc. represented Ash Properties.
The Atlanta-based Smalls Sliders chain, whose investors include the former New Orleans Saints quarterback, is building its first area drive-thru in St. Johns County.
The county issued a permit Feb. 18 for a $500,000 project off County Road 210, east of Interstate 95, across from the mixed-use development The Fountains at St. Johns. Murphy Land & Retail Services also was the listing agent for that site.
Site plans show 14 parking spaces, a dual drive-thru and an outdoor dining area with artificial turf. Indoor dining is not included.
For the project in Jacksonville, the city calculated a mobility fee of $29,364 to support the traffic impact within the Intracoastal Plaza shopping center, which is on 22.19 acres at 14444 Beach Blvd.
Jacksonville-based Ash Properties owns the center, which is anchored by Publix Super Markets Inc.
Smalls Sliders operates six restaurants in Florida in Clearwater, Fort Walton Beach, Ocala (2), Pensacola and Tallahassee. According to its website, the company has 47 locations in 12 states.
The menu features cheeseburger sliders with up to two patties and bacon; grilled cheese sandwiches; waffle fries; and milkshakes.
Smalls Sliders was founded by Brandon Landry, a former walk-on basketball guard at Louisiana State University.
Landry also founded Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux in 2003. The sports bar chain opened at The Pavilion at Durbin Park in St. Johns County in October 2025. Brees also is an investor in that enterprise.
SmallsSliders.com posted a story from QSR magazine from Sept. 5, 2023, that says Smalls opened its first “can” in September 2019 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, not far from the original Walk-On’s restaurant. It later moved its headquarters to Atlanta.
The company franchises. Smalls Sliders said the brand’s modular design – the can – is a shipping container equipped with walk-up windows, drive-thru lanes and outdoor patios instead of indoor dining rooms.