The city is reviewing a building-permit application for Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant in the Mandarin Landing shopping center at a construction cost of $4.5 million.
Cooper’s Hawk will occupy a 10,725-square-foot free-standing building at 10601 San Jose Blvd. There also will be a 709-square-foot patio.
Plans show dining areas, a bar, a tasting bar, private dining, patio dining and a retail area.
Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant LLC of Downers Grove, Illinois, is the client. Cooper’s Hawk Mandarin – Jacksonville LLC is the business owner.
Jacksonville-based Regency Centers Corp. is the landlord.
No contractor is listed. ARIA Group Architects Inc. of Oak Park, Illinois, is the architect. England-Thims & Miller Inc. of Jacksonville is the civil engineer.
Regency Centers owns and is upgrading and redeveloping the Mandarin Landing property anchored by Whole Foods Market at San Jose Boulevard and Hartley Road, north of Interstate 295.
The site plan confirms that Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants will lease across the access drive from the Firestone auto care center.
Cooper’s Hawk opened its first area restaurant in October 2015 at 4850 Big Island Drive in The Markets at Town Center. It replaced Whisky River, which closed in January 2014 after four years.
CHWinery.com describes Cooper’s Hawk as “a modern, casual dining experience with warm hospitality in an inviting upscale setting” with each dish listed “with a bin number to guide you to your selection’s perfect wine match.”
It also offers Napa-style tasting rooms and a marketplace. It is based near Chicago.
Work is progressing at Mandarin Landing. Most recently, the city issued a permit April 19 for Sephora to build-out a beauty-products store in a 4,830-square-foot space south of Whole Foods.
Among other previously disclosed new tenants, Baptist Health will lease the 24,650-square-foot closed and renovated Office Depot store.
Another Broken Egg Cafe is leasing about 3,500 square feet in space near Sephora in the addition closest to Whole Foods.
Patrick McKinley, Regency Centers senior vice president and senior market officer, said in March 2023 that the center’s layout will be reconfigured by demolishing retail space next to the former Office Depot, which closed in November 2020, and building new space next to Whole Foods.
The retail space between Whole Foods and the former Office Depot was demolished and the new 9,800-square-foot Building 5 was developed to the south of Whole Foods. That is where Another Broken Egg and Sephora, as well as European Wax Center, are leasing.
Pad 4 is near San Jose Boulevard and that is where Cooper’s Hawk is shown. Cooper’s Hawk will be built in a portion of the parking lot closest to San Jose Boulevard.
Regency Centers said a portion of the parking lot will be modified and there will be landscape changes to improve customer connectivity and enhance traffic patterns “for easily and safely visiting shops and restaurants.”
There also are facade renovations.
Property records show the center was built in phases starting in 1976 through 2008.
The center, on 17.3 acres, also is anchored by Kirkland’s Home and Enza’s Italian Restaurant.
Regency Centers is a national owner, operator and developer of shopping centers.