Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A is permitted for a raze-and-rebuild of its 24-year-old Queen’s Harbour area restaurant at 13375 Atlantic Blvd.
The city issued a site-clearing permit Sept. 17 to demolish the restaurant and made horizontal improvements at a cost of $2.357 million.
On Oct. 23, the city issued a permit for construction of a 5,329-square-foot Chick-fil-A at a job cost of $3.8 million.
W.H. Bass Inc. of Duluth, Georgia, is the contractor for the project on 1.26 acres at northeast Atlantic Boulevard and Joeandy Road, near Hodges boulevards.
CPH Inc. of Sanford is the architect and the civil engineer. Previous plans show it as 5,772 square feet.
While the project was delayed, in December 2022, Chick-fil-A said it anticipated the restaurant would be closed in late 2023 or early 2024, demolished and rebuilt in 2024, “and will include changes to better and more efficiently serve our customers.”
The chicken sandwich and tenders chain said on a 2022 site plan the project is part of its property reinvestment program to improve customer service and restaurant operations.
“Property improvements will include demolition of existing building and associated parking areas and the construction of a new Chick-fil-A restaurant with dual drive-thru, parking lot and infrastructure support,” said a plan filed then with JEA, the city’s utility, in a request for service availability.
The application says Chick-fil-A will demolish the existing 4,268-square-foot building and build a new one with 118 seats.
Joeandy L.C., a Jacksonville investment partnership, bought the property for $970,000 in 1998 from Queen’s Harbour Yacht & Country Club Ltd. and leased the land in 1999 to Chick-fil-A, property records show.