Raising Cane’s issued permits in Mandarin

The chicken fingers chain is up to four area locations opened or planned, with three in Oakleaf, Town Center and Regency.

Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers has other locations planned in Northeast Florida including Mandarin, Regency and River City Marketplace. All were former Pollo Tropical locations that had closed in February.
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers has other locations planned in Northeast Florida including Mandarin, Regency and River City Marketplace. All were former Pollo Tropical locations that had closed in February.
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The city issued permits May 29 for Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers to build in Mandarin, which would its fourth identified site in Jacksonville.

Three permits cover the building; dual-drive-thru and pickup window canopies; and a dumpster enclosure, totaling project costs of almost $1.73 million.

Plans show the total building footprint at 3,294 square feet, which includes the patio and other outdoor uses, with a 2,770-square-foot enclosed building.

The 1.05-acre site at 10989 San Jose Blvd. is at the Mandarin Corners shopping center, which is anchored by Walmart Supercenter, south of Interstate 295.

The interior of Northeast Florida's first Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers restaurant, which opened July 15 in the Oakleaf Station shopping center at 8308 Merchants Way.
The interior of Northeast Florida's first Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers restaurant, which opened July 15 in the Oakleaf Station shopping center at 8308 Merchants Way.
Photo by Dan Macdonald

The city continues to review a site-clearing and horizontal development permit at an estimated project cost of $2 million and a demolition permit for the existing building, a closed Pollo Tropical, at an estimated cost of $50,000.

Frontier Building Corp. of Miami is the contractor. Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. is the civil engineer. The business owner is Raising Cane’s Restaurants LLC of Plano, Texas.

The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation Division of Hotels and Restaurants’ approved plan for the location indicates 77 seats with indoor and outdoor seating.

Raising Cane’s opened its first area location in July 2025 at 8308 Merchants Way in Oakleaf Station at southwest Argyle Forest Boulevard and Merchants Way in Southwest Jacksonville.

Two more are identified for Town Center and Regency.

A Raising Cane's Chicken Tender's box combo comes with tenders, crinkle-cut fries, Cane's sauce, Texas toast and a drink.
A Raising Cane's Chicken Tender's box combo comes with tenders, crinkle-cut fries, Cane's sauce, Texas toast and a drink.
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In Mandarin, Jacksonville-based Retail Strategies LLC owns the site, where the 3,425-square-foot Pollo Tropical was built in 2011. 

Retail Strategies leased the property to Raising Cane’s  on an initial 20-year lease with renewal options, according to the Memorandum of Lease recorded Nov. 17, 2025, with the Duval County Clerk of Court.

It was the third closed Pollo Tropical identified for Raising Cane’s, although one in River City Marketplace has since been leased to Dave’s Hot Chicken.

Pollo Tropical closed those locations, its last three in Jacksonville, in February 2025.


 

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