Jacksonville-based Corner Lot wants to rezone its vacant property at southwest Atlantic Boulevard and Art Museum Drive for additional uses that include residential and commercial.
Corner Lot now envisions the 7.14-acre St. Nicholas-area property, previously zoned for multifamily development, to include hotel and commercial uses.
A concept plan filed with Jacksonville City Council legislation introduced May 26 shows a hotel, bank, sandwich shop, coffee shop and two fast-food restaurants.
The bank, shops and restaurants include drive-thrus.
Ordinance 2026-0437 is in review by the Council Land Use and Zoning Committee. The rezoning request is to change from one Planned Unit Development to another. A PUD allows a developer to tailor uses to a site.
Executive Vice President of Government Affairs Billy Zeits said June 8 by text that multifamily remains in the project.
"Apartments are still a part of the development program," he said. "We are incorporating a diversity of commercial uses to respond to the growing commercial demand of the city of Jacksonville."
Corner Lot, a Jacksonville-based commercial, retail and residential developer, has been exploring development of the property to expand the use of the proposed multifamily site.
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 among nine parcels for proposed apartments.
Before the purchase, Jacksonville City Council approved legislation Nov. 9, 2022, rezoning the property to PUD.
A concept plan dated July 25, 2022, showed an outline for 285 apartments in a five-story building that wrapped around an amenity area with a pool and plaza. There also was a dog park.
The Atlantic Boulevard frontage included the Beach Road Fish House and Chicken Dinners building. It was long known as Beach Road Chicken Dinners.
The structure was demolished in October 2023.
In October 2025, Corner Lot proposed to add commercial uses to the site along with the apartments it had been proposing.
Zeits said in October 2025 there was no anticipated timeline for construction to start that he could share.
He said at that time that amending the PUD was “an option we are reviewing internally at this point.”
City utility JEA reviewed an updated service-availability determination request April 14, 2026, for Corner Lot’s “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,” Corner Lot Commercial Development Manager Andre Green n said by text April 13.
The JEA request outlined 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.
Green stated in the April 14 JEA request that a 2023 JEA availability letter was for 285 multifamily units. “I am looking for (a) separate availability letter for (the) project as all commercial uses,” Green said in the submission.
No tenants or users were identified.
The concept site plan filed with Ordinance 2026-0437 does not show a strip center and instead shows separate commercial buildings.