WEDNESDAY April 17, 2019
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THE MATHIS REPORT
Wawa ‘keying in’ on a site Downtown
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Midtown Table: The latest concept from the Medures
Company real estate manager says location is in the Northbank or Springfield area.
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BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Restaurant along Gate Parkway south of Butler “will be casual but full service” and feature pizza, pasta, sandwiches and a full bar. Chefs Matthew and David Medure are launching a new culinary concept – Midtown Table – at Gateway Village at Town Center. Matthew Medure describes it as a casual, smart-looking, full-service restaurant and bar serving soups, salads, sandwiches, pizza and more for lunch and dinner “at a good price point.” He intends to offer grab-and-go foods in the morning. The address is 5016 Gate Parkway, south of Butler Boulevard. Overall, he said, it’s taken somewhat of an Italian feel. “It will be casual but full service, with freshly milled flour for bread and pizza, one of those big Neapolitan pizza ovens coming in, a lot of homemade pasta, a full bar,” he told Flamingo magazine in March. Outside will be green space that includes a putting green, fire pit and other family-friendly features. Medure expects the restaurant to open in August. It will seat 110 customers inside and 75 outside. Medure said the strategy and inspiration come from his and his brother’s passion to cook “like we cook at home SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
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Chefs David and Matthew Medure are launching Midtown Table at Gateway Village at Town Center south of Butler Boulevard along Gate Parkway.
Midtown Table, under construction at 5016 Gate Parkway, will join four other Medure concepts. They are Matthew’s and Rue Saint-Marc in San Marco, Restaurant Medure in Ponte Vedra Beach, and M Shack in St. Johns Town Center, Nocatee, Atlantic Beach and Riverside.
Wawa Inc., which opened its ninth area store Tuesday, is closing in on a Downtown presence and might secure the location in several weeks. “We’re keying in on a particular site Downtown,” Brian Duke, Wawa regional real estate manager, said at the grand opening of the Fort Caroline area gas station and c o nve n i e n c e store at 2500 Monument Road in East Duke Arlington. Duke declined to identify the Downtown site, but acknowledged it was in the Northbank or Springfield area. “We have a specific site in mind,” he said. Duke said the Wawa team is working on due diligence and needs to meet with city reviewers to make sure the site works. “It’s a lot of heavy lifting to get the right site in the right location,” he said. Pennsylvania-based Wawa entered the area market in December 2017. Its site needs are 1.5 to 2 acres at a signalized intersection. Downtown also presents challenges because it only has about 5,000 residents, which cuts down on overnight customer traffic at the 24-hour store. He said previously that while Downtown’s population is 50,000 to 60,000 people during the day, SEE WAWA, PAGE 2
New name, decor for The Tree Steakhouse The Tree Steakhouse, a Jacksonville institution since 1969, is rebranding. In May, the Mandarin restaurant will become ChopHouse Thirteen. Established by Paul Hanson, first in Arlington and later in Mandarin and at the Beaches, the sole remaining location is at 11362 San Jose Blvd., behind a large oak tree in The Gates of Olde Mandarin shopping center. The restaurant will undergo a makeover along with the name change. It will close April 22 and re-open May 1. More at JaxDailyRecord.com
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