Gateway Town Center in the Brentwood area is preparing to add Dollar Tree, which is in review for permitting.
The estimated $300,000 build-out will convert 12,176 square feet of space next to Five Below in the shopping center along Norwood Avenue.
No contractor is specified for the project at 5258 Norwood Ave., Unit 12A. The permit is for interior build-out for the store.
However, DLP Construction Co. Inc. and Williams & Rowe Co. Inc. are shown as the contractors for the $350,000 shell improvement for Dollar Tree, according to a permit issued Dec. 2.
That permit covers shell and facade improvements, a new storefront and a demising wall in 16,099 square feet of space to create two tenant spaces – Units 12A and 12B.
Dollar Tree is another national storefront addition to more than 60-year-old center that had struggled for years for new retailers but has opened an anchor tenant and several more national brands while upgrading the property.
Anchor tenant Burlington, a national discount department store, opened in November 2023.
Dollar Tree is two doors from anchor Burlington in Building A.
Miami Lakes-based owner Gateway Retail Center LLC has been adding new retailers including Roses Discount Store, Planet Fitness and a larger Hibbett Sports.
Family Dollar, which is owned by Dollar Tree, also has a store there. The shopping center site plan shows the stores in separate buildings. While Dollar Tree has been closing some of its Family Dollar stores nationwide, including in Jacksonville, the Gateway site remains open.
There are at least 44 Dollar Tree stores and 47 Family Dollar stores in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties. Those include at least two Family Dollar and Dollar Tree combination stores.
A site brochure for Gateway Town Center shows Dollar Tree as coming soon.
Much of Gateway Town Center opened more than 60 years ago, in 1959, at the Golfair Boulevard and Norwood Avenue exits east along Interstate 95 and north of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.
Gateway added an indoor mall on the site in 1967 as Regency Square Mall opened in Arlington. A California investor recently bought that part on about 10.7 acres and intends to develop retail stores, self-storage and affordable housing.
The rest of the Gateway stores opened between 1980 and 2005.
Winn-Dixie has leased a grocery store there since 2020 after the city agreed to $850,000 in city financial incentives to offset costs associated with redeveloping the property, where Publix Super Markets Inc. closed in 2019. The store was built in 2000.