To prepare for construction of BJ’s Wholesale Club, the city approved a demolition permit for the closed Regal Cinemas in River City Marketplace in North Jacksonville.
The city issued a permit Oct. 6 for Able Construction Inc. of Jacksonville to demolish the 63,810-square-foot Regal River City Marketplace, previously operated as Hollywood Theaters, at a job cost of $247,000.
The 14-screen Regal River City Marketplace at 12884 City Center Blvd. was built in 2006 on 9 acres.
The permit refers to the theater as AMC, but it is Regal.
BJ’s Wholesale Club is on track for a new location at the River City Marketplace site.
Property owner Ramco Jacksonville LLC filed civil engineering plans with the city July 27 to replace the Regal with the proposed 103,005-square-foot wholesale club.
Plans also show a fueling facility on the 10.66-acre site.
Edwards Engineering is the consulting civil engineering firm.
RPT Realty, Ramco’s corporate name, said May 4 in its first-quarter report to investors that it signed a 103,000-square-foot wholesale club to replace the movie theater, but did not identify it as BJ’s.
It included the news again in its Aug. 3 second-quarter investor presentation that a “National Wholesale Club” will replace the Regal Entertainment Group site in River City Marketplace.
A St. Johns River Water Management District application confirmed in June that BJ’s will replace the theater.
Property owner RPT Realty applied to the district to modify a permit to demolish the theater building and build the wholesale club.
