Wow - nice reverse trend seeing a place relocate to downtown. Although they've advertised the $1.99 breakfast all over the Baymeadows area for months - I can only vouch for their lunch (A+).
Downtown Jacksonville gets a new restaurant QuoteThe Midtown Deli on Bonneval Road is moving to Downtown Jacksonville.
The restaurants’ owners have signed a lease for 5,400 square feet on the first floor of the Jacksonville Bank Building at 100 N. Laura St., the building’s owner said.
The restaurant will close its location off of J. Turner Butler Boulevard near Philips Highway and open Downtown in mid-September. It will operate as Midtown Deli and Cafe, said Robert van Winkel, managing partner of the group of investors who owns the Jacksonville Bank Building.
Van Winkel and his partners bought the Jacksonville Bank Building in April for $3.5 million. It is mostly vacant, other than a Jacksonville Bank branch and offices on the 10th floors.
He said the restaurant will serve breakfast, lunch and include a wine and espresso bar.
“It will be a nice place for an upscale sandwich, where you can have a good quality cup of coffee,†van Winkel said.
http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2011/07/26/downtown-jacksonville-gets-a-new.html
http://www.midtowndelijacksonville.com/
I work in ATT building and with Chew and others leaving it seems like there will be a shortage of lunch places downtown. Does anyone else think that with that montrosity of a courthouse coming there will be TONS of opportunity to open a great lunch place to capture that crowd. That area is really lacking in semi close lunch spots.
Side note props to MetroJax fave Mr Ron Chamblin for having a great place in Uptown. That Turkey on Croisant with Brie is perfection.
This is great news! Hopefully they can put a few tables outside and create some vibrancy on this now very "dead" block.
Quote from: JHAT76 on July 26, 2011, 08:01:07 PM
I work in ATT building and with Chew and others leaving it seems like there will be a shortage of lunch places downtown. Does anyone else think that with that montrosity of a courthouse coming there will be TONS of opportunity to open a great lunch place to capture that crowd. That area is really lacking in semi close lunch spots.
Side note props to MetroJax fave Mr Ron Chamblin for having a great place in Uptown. That Turkey on Croisant with Brie is perfection.
Yes, when the courthouse opens I think you'll see some of those empty retail spaces in the courthouse and BB&T Tower garages fill in. However, that area will still shut down at 5pm on weekdays and be dead on the weekends.
I didn't know there were any delis in Florida, I thought it was to Northeast for people here to to give them a chance. I hope it's an NYC style deli, right down to it being run by Jewish people. I'm not being sarcastic or anything, I just really want to see more places like the ones I grew up with, here in Jax.
Btw, it will be nice to see some life added to the Jax Bank Building at street level. I assume they must be taking the old Gold's Gym space?
Quote from: thelakelander on July 26, 2011, 09:29:38 PM
Quote from: JHAT76 on July 26, 2011, 08:01:07 PM
I work in ATT building and with Chew and others leaving it seems like there will be a shortage of lunch places downtown. Does anyone else think that with that montrosity of a courthouse coming there will be TONS of opportunity to open a great lunch place to capture that crowd. That area is really lacking in semi close lunch spots.
Side note props to MetroJax fave Mr Ron Chamblin for having a great place in Uptown. That Turkey on Croisant with Brie is perfection.
Yes, when the courthouse opens I think you'll see some of those empty retail spaces in the courthouse and BB&T Tower garages fill in. However, that area will still shut down at 5pm on weekdays and be dead on the weekends.
Unfortunately I think we will also see some current businesses closing, or at least moving to the other side of downtown. Olio comes to mind.
Quote from: thelakelander on July 26, 2011, 09:29:38 PM
Quote from: JHAT76 on July 26, 2011, 08:01:07 PM
I work in ATT building and with Chew and others leaving it seems like there will be a shortage of lunch places downtown. Does anyone else think that with that montrosity of a courthouse coming there will be TONS of opportunity to open a great lunch place to capture that crowd. That area is really lacking in semi close lunch spots.
Side note props to MetroJax fave Mr Ron Chamblin for having a great place in Uptown. That Turkey on Croisant with Brie is perfection.
Yes, when the courthouse opens I think you'll see some of those empty retail spaces in the courthouse and BB&T Tower garages fill in. However, that area will still shut down at 5pm on weekdays and be dead on the weekends.
Not if we get serious about bringing residents back Downtown.
Even if we do, it will be a few years before there is a population that could support 24/7 commercial activity in that area of DT.
Quote from: acme54321 on July 26, 2011, 09:36:03 PM
Quote from: thelakelander on July 26, 2011, 09:29:38 PM
Quote from: JHAT76 on July 26, 2011, 08:01:07 PM
I work in ATT building and with Chew and others leaving it seems like there will be a shortage of lunch places downtown. Does anyone else think that with that montrosity of a courthouse coming there will be TONS of opportunity to open a great lunch place to capture that crowd. That area is really lacking in semi close lunch spots.
Side note props to MetroJax fave Mr Ron Chamblin for having a great place in Uptown. That Turkey on Croisant with Brie is perfection.
Yes, when the courthouse opens I think you'll see some of those empty retail spaces in the courthouse and BB&T Tower garages fill in. However, that area will still shut down at 5pm on weekdays and be dead on the weekends.
Unfortunately I think we will also see some current businesses closing, or at least moving to the other side of downtown. Olio comes to mind.
I could see that happening. After all, all we're doing is moving existing traffic in one section of downtown to another. The key for East Bay will be what we decide to do with the existing courthouse site and how long it takes to accomplish that goal.
Quote from: thelakelander on July 26, 2011, 09:40:01 PM
Even if we do, it will be a few years before there is a population that could support 24/7 commercial activity in that area of DT.
And that's why we need to start working on it right now.
Has there been any mention of the site that I missed about the 8 floors that Wells Fargo is about to occupy at 1 Independent?
The courthouse only shifts people from one side of DT to the other, but WF and EB are bringing new blood into a place that's desperate for a transfusion.
Wells Fargo is actually reducing the amount of people they employee downtown and shifting their offices a block east from their existing location. However, I have heard that they are adding a Wells Fargo store on the ground floor of the Independent Square building and that it will have its own separate entry to Laura Street.
If I'm not mistaken, I thought they were just taking over the Wachovia bank on the ground floor. I really didn't pay much attention to design plans, but everything was FBO and it occupied a 2000ish sqft area.
No. The majority of that building is currently occupied with Wells Fargo (Wachovia) offices. They're moving their entire operation from one building to another. Basically, the exact same thing the city is doing with the courthouse.
Heard.
Verified:
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php?topic=12278.0
QuoteThe former Modis building will be known as the Wells Fargo Center, a spokeswoman for the bank said.
Kathy Harrison, spokewoman for Wachovia , a Wells Fargo Co. , confirmed that the bank’s 375 employees currently at the Enterprise Center, better known as the Wachovia building at 225 Water St., are moving to 1 Independent Drive beginning in November. The move should be completed by the end of the year.
Harrison said the new signage for the Wells Fargo Center should be completed by the end of the summer.
Wells Fargo will occupy six and a half stories, or 120,000 square feet, at 1 Independent Drive.
Wachovia occupies 155,000 square feet in the Enterprise Center. The bank and its earlier incarnations have occupied that space for 25 years.
Harrison said the move was a business decision and will save money by consolidating space and through a good lease term. Harrison declined to provide details on the lease.
http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2011/05/20/modis-building-to-wells-fargo-center.html
Quote from: urbaknight on July 26, 2011, 09:34:36 PM
I didn't know there were any delis in Florida, I thought it was to Northeast for people here to to give them a chance. I hope it's an NYC style deli, right down to it being run by Jewish people. I'm not being sarcastic or anything, I just really want to see more places like the ones I grew up with, here in Jax.
if that's what you want, try Let's Nosh on San Jose Blvd
I believe the new Wells Fargo branch will replace the current SunTrust branch in the Modis building. SunTrust will then open a new branch in the actual SunTrust building across the street.
Midtown Deli is amazing. It will be sad to see them leave the southside (first time i've ever said that), but I wish them great success downtown. I'll have to get over there sometime this week.
Looks like they're being forced to move out, searching for a new space:
http://www.gofundme.com/4fjcw4d6
"Thank you for taking the time to look at this. We are Midtown Deli & Cafe. We have been in business for just over 5 years. 3 and a half years at our current location in downtown Jacksonville at 100 N Laura st. Many of you have enjoyed our food over this time and we have enjoyed having you as customers but that is all about to change. We recieved notice that our lease will not be renewed and we have 30 days to leave. We had been trying to renew our lease but it appears the owners want to go in a different direction and gave us very short notice. We are scrambling to find a new location downtown because after talking to many of you we feel the love and know this is where we need to be. It won't be cheap to make a move this fast so we are asking for some help. We started behind the 8 ball when we moved downtown. The construction on our space took 5 months longer than expected. We had given notice on our other location and had to move out. We spent 5 months with no income trying to get open and it sapped all of our savings. We almost didn't even get the chance to open it hurt us so bad. By the grace of god we managed to get open and enjoyed success. 2 years ago we had a cold winter and we found out our space had no heat. We asked for it to be fixed but that didn't happen. It hurt us financially. We don't blame any customer that didn't want to sit in a restaurant that was 45 degrees and eat. We managed to recover from that. Again this past year after asking many times for the heat to be fixed it was not. This past year hurt even more with lost sales. Again we don't blame anyone who didn't want to eat in such cold weather. We didn't even want to go to work in such conditions. If we had to go through another winter with no heat this year it would have officially put us out of business.
My fiance Joy and I (DJ) moved here from Hawaii with a dream to own our own restaraunt and we feel very lucky to have been able to do this and be able to serve such great customers. Many of you we even call friends. We would greatly appreciate any donation you would be able to give to help us move to a new spot so we can continue to serve you some great and fresh food. Thank you for your time and your help.
~~~UPDATE~~~~~
We have added rewards to our campaign. This way we feel better about accepting donations and you guys have incentive to come and see us. You can use the gift certificates at our current space up till Sept 4th or you can choose to get one for our new space once we open.
The $5 free hug award must be even between Joy and I. Everyone can't just want to hug her:)"
That stinks.
When the dust settles, it seems like things will work out for DT. A new tenant will replace Midtown at the Forsyth Street location and Midtown will have new digs within a two block radius of their current location.
Midtown Deli moving out of Downtown spot by end of August
http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/blog/morning-edition/2015/08/midtown-deli-moving-out-of-downtown-spot-by-end-of.html
So where exactly is midtown's new location?