A warehouse adjacent to the Phoenix Arts & Innovation District would be repurposed as a food court and family entertainment operation under action by the Jacksonville City Council Land Use and Zoning Committee on Feb. 4.
The committee voted 7-0 to rezone the property at 2403 N. Market St. for a project listed as “Main Street Food Park and Mini Golf Adventures” in city documents. The vote advanced legislation containing the rezoning, Ordinance 2024-0981, to the full City Council for final consideration Feb. 11, where it is expected to be approved after drawing no opposition before the Jacksonville Planning Commission or the LUZ.
Hector Zayas applied to rezone the property from Industrial Light to Planned Unit Development. The property owner is listed in city documents as Oakshire Holdings LLC of Miami.
Zayas and his wife, both U.S. Navy veterans, previously operated the Main Street Food Park at 1352 N. Main St.
According to a site plan attached to the ordinance, a warehouse on the property would be transformed into a food court with an art gallery and entertainment space. A playground and splash pad, bathrooms, stage and food kiosk would be built on a lot adjacent to the warehouse to the east. The mini-golf course would occupy the far eastern portion of the 0.6-acre property.
Beer, wine and liquor would be served on the site, according to a staff report on the rezoning application.
The staff report said the two-story warehouse building on the site was built in 1959.
The rezoning came on condition that the operation would play no amplified music after 10 p.m. and would comply with lighting restrictions aimed at reducing illumination on neighboring single-family homes.
The site is immediately north of the Future of Cities’ Phoenix Arts & Innovation District, where the first phase of development is underway on 8.3 acres.
The $38 million initial phase of the development, for which the city of Jacksonville provided $5.5 million in incentives, involves adaptive reuse of several early 20th-century industrial buildings. The first renovated building, the 17,000-square-foot Emerald Station, opened in October 2024.
The commission’s approval came with two conditions recommended by the city Planning and Development Department. The conditions bar amplified music from being played after 10 p.m. and require lighting to be directed away from any nearby residential buildings. In addition, an exterior lighting plan must be submitted to the planning staff for review.