Bold City Brewery to close its Downtown tavern

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Bold City Brewery is turning off its taps in Downtown Jacksonville.

On its Bold City Downtown account on Facebook, the brewery posted that June 27 will be its last day at its Downtown location.

The post said the brewery’s lease at 109 E. Bay St. was ending. Beyond that, the post offered no explanation for the closure.

“The good news: Bold City isn’t going anywhere,” the post read. “We’ll be relocating our brewing equipment to our production facility and will continue brewing the beers you know and love.”

Bold City’s production facility is at 2670 Rosselle Street, southwest of the junction of Interstate 10 and Stockton Street.

The mother-son duo of Susan and Brian Miller are shown in this file image from 2016 as space for Bold City Downtown was being built-out at 109 E. Bay St. Bold City announced in 2026 it was closing the Downtown microbrewery and moving its equipment to the production facility on Rosselle Street.

The Downtown taproom opened in 2017. In 2016, the brewery sought a $28,000 incentive from the Downtown Investment Authority for the Bay Street tavern and microbrewery. Under terms of a forgivable loan for the project, the operation was required to remain open five years.

In April 2023, the Downtown Development Review Board voted to grant final approval to a mixed-use development with a Daily’s gas station and Bold City Brewery and restaurant in LaVilla.

At the time, developers said Bold City planned to close its tavern on Bay Street to open in the Daily’s station.

The project is sited on property bordered by Forsyth, Bay, Broad and Jefferson streets. DDRB approved it over objections from several LaVilla residents, including that it was out of character for the neighborhood.

In August 2025, Jacksonville City Council voted to authorize a three-year extension for the DDRB’s final approval of the project. Developer First Coast Energy LLP said it needed more time to launch and complete the project.

A three-story Daily’s with a convenience store, restaurant and Bold City Brewery is planned in LaVilla on a 1.4-acre block at Bay and Broad streets. — A Daily’s with a convenience store, restaurant and Bold City Brewery is planned in LaVilla on a 1.4-acre block at Bay and Broad streets.

First Coast Energy said tasks that remained included facilitating final professional design and engineering work, procuring and sourcing materials, completing construction plans and finalizing business partners.

According to the summary, the DDRB had already given First Coast Energy a one-year extension on the order, which was originally set to expire in August 2024. Should Council approve the ordinance, the expiration would extend to August 2028.

In January 2025, First Coast Energy submitted civil engineering plans to the city showing a 20,554-square-foot convenience store on the southeast corner of the property, with a bank of fuel pumps roughly in the middle between entry and exit points on Bay and Forsyth streets.