WEDNESDAY September 2, 2020
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Owner and chef Dennis Chan says he will close his first Blue Bamboo when he opens his new Mandarin location in December.
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BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
At the start, Blue Bamboo owner Dennis Chan didn’t think transforming a law office into an Asian restaurant would be too difficult. After initially hoping to open this summer, Chan estimates his second Blue Bamboo will launch by December, nearly a year and nine months after he began planning to build the restaurant at 10110 San Jose Blvd. Chan bought the Mandarin property for $899,000 in November. “Well, had I known that it was going to be as difficult as it was, I would have had them draw me a building from the ground up,” he said.
Above: Blue Bamboo owner Dennis Chan in the doorway of the building he is renovating into his new restaurant at 10110 San Jose Blvd. in Mandarin. Left: Chan said it will cost an estimated at $2.3 million to convert the former law office into a restaurant. Chan bought the property for $899,000. Photos by Katie Garwood
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Park Place at San Marco opponents ask for review of judge’s recommendation Developers say groundbreaking for apartments still is planned for 2020. BY MIKE MENDENHALL & MAX MARBUT STAFF WRITERS
Opponents of the planned Park Place at San Marco apartment community filed two exceptions Aug. 25 to a Florida administrative law judge’s recommendation that the project be
allowed to proceed. San Marco residents Jonathan Livingston and Lakshmi Gopal and the nonprofit Right Size San Marco met a 15-day deadline to challenge state Administrative Law Judge Francine Ffolkes’s recommendation to the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings. Park Place development team member and Corner Lot Development Group CEO Andy SEE SAN MARCO, PAGE 2
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An artist’s rendering of the Park Place at San Marco apartment community planned on property owned by South Jacksonville Presbyterian Church.
Florida eviction, foreclosure moratorium extended Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Aug. 31 extending the moratorium on evictions and foreclosures that began in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown. The moratorium extension expires at 12:01 a.m. Oct. 1. A lender or property owner may initiate a single-family mortgage foreclosure or eviction process in any situation allowed under existing Florida statutes. The order only halts the final action of certain foreclosures and evictions. The order does not protect tenants whose lease expires or when nonpayment is for reasons other than the COVID-19 emergency. It applies only to residential tenants, not to commercial evictions.
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