Old Fuel Coffeehouse Space - Build Out

[funwithteeth]

^I hope so! I've been to the UCF location and this place can remain a Central Florida chain.

[Jessicapants]

I'd never heard of this chain of restaurants until it got posted here. I looked at their website and I can honestly say that I will never willingly patronize any of their locations. Their concept just doesn't appeal to me. I can see this chain doing well in the Town Center or Oakleaf, but I don't think that it will do well in Riverside/5 Points. For that reason, I really hope that these rumors are not true.

That said, I am glad to see that there is work being done to the Fuel space. It's a shame that it had to sit empty and in shambles for that long.

[johnnyliar]

Again, I have no idea if this rumor has any truth to it.

I'm sitting squarely in the camp that hopes it is NOT true.

[jaxlore]

ugh.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Where is all the animosity coming from?    It's not like 5 points isn't already filled with chain restaurants:  Wendys, Papa Johns, Als, Larrys, Hawkers, China [Wok, Joy, Express, etc....], Tijuana Flats....

Don't like the theme?  Don't eat there.
Don't like the menu?  Don't eat there.
Don't like the 'suburban-ess'?  Don't eat there.

Maybe I'm offbase here, but I'm sensing a lot of angst towards the suburbanization of 5-points on this thread and sensing excitement from the same posters on the Brooklyn thread of a very stereotypical suburban development.  I drove past that project this morning and thought I had just gotten off of 95 at the Bartram Park exit.... 

[funwithteeth]

I don't care that a chain may go in there—there are chain restaurants I like and local ones I dislike—but I've actually been to this place, so yes, I shall express displeasure at the idea of another crappy restaurant coming to the neighborhood. Especially in that spot.

Also, the Brooklyn project looks like poop.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

+1 for a shitty food argument.

That's understandable.  And if enough people think it's crap, then they may not hang around.  Look at the bright side, at least the space will be habitable for the next tenant to move in...



(+8 for the word 'poop'.  I feel it's underused.  )

[John P]

Just got word that buildout is happening at the old Fuel space. Anyone know what's going on?

It's apparently going to be an artisanal water and cracker bar. 

When wine got old, people moved to "craft" beer; when too many people caught up to those fetishizing beer (and the beer snobs could no longer hold their beer knowledge over everyone's head so they could feel cool and superior), they began fetishizing coffee so they could hold it over everyone's head that they know more about a "proper" cup of coffee than everyone else; now, the coffee fetishists have seen the unwashed proles moving into their territory so they are moving on to artisinal, hand-gathered water. 

The owners are heard to be considering the name "Flow" or  possibly "Precipitate" as a name for the space.  Once open, they have hired a specialty baker to provide a variety of hand-crafted crackers, with several different varieties to pair with the various waters.

Yes but will it be organic? I only select eat organic artisan hand crafted crackers

[Jessicapants]

Where is all the animosity coming from?    It's not like 5 points isn't already filled with chain restaurants:  Wendys, Papa Johns, Als, Larrys, Hawkers, China [Wok, Joy, Express, etc....], Tijuana Flats....

Don't like the theme?  Don't eat there.
Don't like the menu?  Don't eat there.
Don't like the 'suburban-ess'?  Don't eat there.

Maybe I'm offbase here, but I'm sensing a lot of angst towards the suburbanization of 5-points on this thread and sensing excitement from the same posters on the Brooklyn thread of a very stereotypical suburban development.  I drove past that project this morning and thought I had just gotten off of 95 at the Bartram Park exit....

Like I said before, after I checked out the website of the place that is rumored to be going in at the old Fuel space, I saw that their offerings don't interest me, so I have made the choice to not eat in any of their locations. I also think that their theme is chintzy, but that's neither here nor there. I'm not refusing to eat there because they are a chain, but because they don't serve anything that I want. I apply the same logic to non-chain restaurants.   

As far as suburbanization of 5 Points is concerned, I'm not really all that angry about what is happening there. I kinda think that the ship on that has already sailed, so to speak. It is what it is.

I do prefer that local businesses go in (everywhere, not just in my own neck of the woods) but it's not the end of the world when a chain shows up.

FWIW, I was disappointed in the final design of the Brooklyn project too, as I would have preferred something more urban in design. But that doesn't mean that I have to be angry about all of the businesses that are going in.

[Lucasjj]

There seems to be some real news on the old Fuel space.

http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2015/02/12/harbinger-sign-president-in-talks-to-buy-petersons.html

Harbinger Sign CEO Steve Williams is in the process of buying the former Peterson's 5 & 10 building at 1037 Park St., he said Wednesday.
The 10,500-square-foot space — until a year or so ago still adorned with the logos of Fuel, a coffee shop that vacated it in 2009 — has the potential to house a variety of uses, Williams said.

[InnerCityPressure]

What a nightmare!  If this project is successful, where is everyone going to park?