The fencing at the remains of the 901 N. Main St. parking deck is not necessarily a signal of imminent development.
“The new owner is just securing the site,” said Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow law firm partner Steve Diebenow, speaking for the company that bought the property last year.
Diebenow said he had no additional information to share.
Drives by the site have shown it had been used by trespassers as shelter or gathering.
Dozier Prestige Worldwide LLC, a company working through Contega Business Services LLC, bought the unused parking structure that remains from the demolished Park View Inn on the edge of Springfield.
Dozier Prestige bought the property Oct. 6, 2022, from Jacksonville Hospitality Holdings LLC, led by Robert van Winkel.
Dozier Prestige paid $2.5 million for the almost 1.5-acre block bordered by Main, State, Ocean and Orange streets.
The site is in the Springfield area north of Downtown Jacksonville.
DLP Lending Fund LLC of Allentown, Pennsylvania, issued a $1.62 million balloon mortgage.
The Dozier Prestige name was filed with the state Sept. 15, 2021. Its manager is Contega Business Services, which is housed at the Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow law firm Downtown.
There has been no indication what is planned at the property.
Diebenow said Oct. 11 he had no comment on behalf of the client.
Originally the Heart of Jacksonville Motor Hotel and built in 1966, the property was at one time one of the city’s premier lodging destinations.
It then operated as the Park View Inn until it closed in 2003.
By 2011, most of the site was demolished with the help of a $300,000 Community Development Block grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The parking deck remains.