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BAYMEADOWS MOMENTUM Joyce Development intends to repeat its Tapestry Park design at the front of a former golf course.
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BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Rezoning is in review for Baymeadows Park, the proposed commercial development on part of the former Baymeadows Golf Club. The $15 million, 95,000-squarefoot office, hotel and retail center will comprise five buildings north along Baymeadows Road between Baymeadows Circle east and west. The 5.8-acre site is east of Interstate 95. A site plan for Joyce Development Group LLC identifies the buildings as: A five-story, up to 120-room hotel. A 2,500-square-foot building designed for a coffee shop with a drivethru.
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Developers of Baymeadows Park in Southside seek rezoning of 5.8 acres to accommodate a hotel, office, retail and restaurant space similar to their Tapestry Park development.
A two-story, 18,500-square-foot building with restaurant and retail space on the 10,500-square-foot first floor and offices on the 8,000-square-foot second floor. Two 7,000-square-foot restaurant-retail buildings. The restaurant space will total up to 425 seats. District 11 City Council member Danny Becton said he has been working on the
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project for 14 years through various concepts. He said the project fits with the Baymeadows Community Vision Plan that was adopted in 2011. “I do believe it will be transformational,” he said. Becton is working with the Florida Department of Transportation to coordinate traffic improvements. SEE BAYMEADOWS PARK, PAGE 2
Former Baymeadows inn could become apartments Boston company might buy, renovate decades-old property.
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Home Street Apartments rising in San Marco
First residents of 147-unit luxury project to start moving in next year. San Marco residential development continues with the city’s approval Wednesday for the construction of the 147-unit Home Street Apartments, also referred to as the San Marco Apartments. Summit Contracting Group Inc. will build the four-story apartment building and a three-story parking garage at a construction cost of $15 million. Catalyst Development Partners of Atlanta said in May it would break ground this month on the SEE HOME STREET, PAGE 2
BY DAVID CAWTON STAFF WRITER
A Boston-based company wants to convert a closed Baymeadows-area inn into an apartment complex near the Baymeadows Park redevelopment project. Stratford Management Co. said it is negotiating to purchase the property at 8050 Baymeadows Circle W. from Alunity Investments LLC. The six-building motel was built in 1982 and 1984. Irene Forsythe with Stratford Management said Thursday the company plans to convert the property into about 103 one-bedroom and studio apartments.
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A development group is considering conversion of a former inn at 8050 Baymeadows Circle W. into studio and one-bedroom apartments.
She did not have the exact mix other than to say the majority will be studios. “We are having it rezoned for multifamily right now,” she said. Forsythe said Stratford plans to replace the motel’s common spaces like confer-
ence and meeting rooms with different amenities. “A clubhouse, a theater room, a full kitchen, a coffee bar and a fitness center,” SEE APARTMENTS, PAGE 2
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The 147-unit Home Street Apartments will include community amenities such as co-working spaces, a pool and fitness center as well as a parking garage.
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