Last Remaining Tenet at Unity Plaza Closes Up Shop

[Steve]

Funny how the center down the street stays full and this one is 100% empty.

It's too late now, but they should have moved the retail to Riverside Ave, not attempted putting lipstick on a pic (FDOT Retention Pond), and I bet things would have gone better.

But, the tenant mix......not great. One restauranteur that expanded too quickly, one that had decent food but expensive, and an average pizza place.

[Captain Zissou]

Funny how the center down the street stays full and this one is 100% empty.

There is one vacancy at Brooklyn Station.

[Kerry]

Funny how the center down the street stays full and this one is 100% empty.

If you are talking about Brooklyn Station - turn over there is pretty high.  Seems like every time I walk to Fresh Market something is closing.

[thelakelander]

Zoe's, Burger Fi, Burrito Gallery, Fresh Market, etc. all seem to do fine. Fine enough for a second retail center being proposed right next door. The things that seem to turn over are new concepts or places like Corner Bakery, which closed all their Jax locations. Even those spots seem to find new tenants pretty quick.

[Kerry]

I was thinking more about the retail spots adjacent to the Fresh Market.  And while several place have gone, you are right, it doesn't take long to fill the vacancy.

[jlmann]

It's too late now, but they should have moved the retail to Riverside Ave, not attempted putting lipstick on a pic

yep.  watch, i'd bet nothing makes it there for more than a year or 2 until the surrounding area gets denser and has more residents/more projects are built.  unity plaza was a nice story to get 220 built and sold, like the idea of alex coley living there.  it's too far too walk from most of riverside and the whole parking/walking up to the plaza experience feels like you're on a construction site where you shouldn't be

Ruby Tuesday food at Tavern on the Green prices

a succinct summary of jax food, sadly.  chophouse comes to mind.

[Steve]

It's too late now, but they should have moved the retail to Riverside Ave, not attempted putting lipstick on a pic

yep.  watch, i'd bet nothing makes it there for more than a year or 2 until the surrounding area gets denser and has more residents/more projects are built.  unity plaza was a nice story to get 220 built and sold, like the idea of alex coley living there.  it's too far too walk from most of riverside and the whole parking/walking up to the plaza experience feels like you're on a construction site where you shouldn't be

Completely Agree

Ruby Tuesday food at Tavern on the Green prices

a succinct summary of jax food, sadly.  chophouse comes to mind.

Couldn't disagree more, but hey, that's 50%

[Captain Zissou]

Funny how the center down the street stays full and this one is 100% empty.

If you are talking about Brooklyn Station - turn over there is pretty high.  Seems like every time I walk to Fresh Market something is closing.

The only 2 that have closed are corner bakery and grabbagreen.  Corner bakery was hoping to make a large chunk of their money from catering, which did not pan our.  Grabbagreen was poorly designed and executed.  There have been pop up shops that came and went, but those weren't designed to be permanent.

[Steve]

A couple of the spaces immediately adjacent to Fresh Market have turned over. I believe they are all full now though.

[Steve]

I stand corrected-the old Marilyn Monroe Spa is still vacant.

[JaxAvondale]

I stand corrected-the old Marilyn Monroe Spa is still vacant.

There is a tenant there now. I think the Pink Nickel sport is still vacant.

[Kerry]

See, turnover is so high we can't even remember which closed store occupied the currently vacant space.

[Bill Hoff]

The Pink Nickel & Marilyn Monroe had their rents raised, that's why they left.

[JaxAvondale]

I thought Monroe left because they decided that they needed a full spa to operate properly.

[I-10east]

Jax accept who you are. Bring Waffle House.

I don't understand how one small area of a neighborhood represents an entire city, but whatever...There was a multitude of issues concerning the failure of those restaurants at Unity, and price point (which was average fast casual) might not crack the top five in importance. As others pointed out; parking, poor signage, low name recognition, no shade, poorly laid out.