Civil engineering plans for a disputed Daily’s gas station and convenience store in LaVilla have been submitted to the city of Jacksonville.
First Coast Energy LLP prepared the plans for the property, bordered by Forsyth, Bay, Broad and Jefferson streets. They show a 20,554-square-foot convenience store on the southeast corner of the property, with a bank of fuel pumps roughly in the middle between entry and exit points on Bay and Forsyth streets.
Also shown are 36 parking spaces, with electric-vehicle charging stations in the northwest corner.
The submission of the plans comes more than a year after the Downtown Development Review Board voted in August 2023 to grant final approval for a two-story Daily’s that included a Bold City Brewery and restaurant. The approval came on a 5-2 vote, which capped eight months of delays and hearings in which LaVilla and Downtown advocates expressed opposition to the proposal and pressed for design changes.
Attached to the civil engineering plans is a letter from the Downtown Investment Authority, which shares staff with the DDRB, giving a final one-year extension on the project application approved by the DDRB. The letter says the extension was granted from August 2024.
On Oct. 1, the city issued a permit for demolition of a closed drive-thru bank building at 60 N. Broad St. on the site of the proposed Daily’s station. The building, which remained standing as of Jan. 15, is the last structure on the 1.4-acre block.
As approved by the DDRB, the property would include 16 fueling stations, a 5,000-square-foot restaurant and Bold City microbrewery, and a rooftop bar.
First Coast Energy paid almost $3.3 million in August 2020 for the property.
The company paid nearly $2.4 million for five parcels that include the site of a closed bank drive-thru and $900,000 for the land where the Kartouche nightclub once stood.