The vacant J. Allen Axson Elementary School would be revived as a boutique hotel under action taken Jan. 9 by the Jacksonville Planning Commission.
Commissioners voted 6-0 to recommend approval of a land-use amendment and rezoning to resurrect the school property at 1221 E. 16th St. as a mixed-use development.
Cyndy Trimmer, a land use attorney for Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow, told the commission that project would include the hotel, a restaurant and bar, and self-storage units. The self-storage component would be new construction, while the hotel and dining establishment would be an adaptive reuse of the school building.