{"id":157097,"date":"2026-02-16T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157097\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:05:06","slug":"former-landstar-ceo-planning-restaurant-with-pickleball-courts-in-mayport-jdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157097\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Landstar CEO planning restaurant with pickleball courts in Mayport: JDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The retired CEO of Jacksonville-based trucking company Landstar is planning a restaurant complex with pickleball courts, a stage and more in Mayport, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/16\/former-landstar-ceo-planning-restaurant-with-pickleball-courts-in-mayport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/16\/former-landstar-ceo-planning-restaurant-with-pickleball-courts-in-mayport\/\">according to our news partners at the Jacksonville Daily Record.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">James Gattoni, who retired in 2024 after 28 years with Landstar, said last week he was targeting a spring 2027 opening for the restaurant on Mayport Road, near the Wonderland Drive intersection north of Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Gattoni said the idea of opening a food and beverage operation came to him after he retired. He said the restaurant would be the draw for the establishment, which he strives to make into a gathering spot for families to enjoy evenings outdoors listening to music. He also expects to have a 7-by-14 foot outdoor LED screen for watching sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The restaurant is identified in the permit application as Coastal Pickleball Club, but Gattoni said he had not chosen a name for the establishment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">An application for city permitting shows a restaurant with a cabana, golf simulator, eight pickleball courts and the event stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Construction costs are estimated at $3.59 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/16\/former-landstar-ceo-planning-restaurant-with-pickleball-courts-in-mayport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/16\/former-landstar-ceo-planning-restaurant-with-pickleball-courts-in-mayport\/\">Read more at the Jacksonville Daily Record<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The retired CEO of Jacksonville-based trucking company Landstar is planning a restaurant complex with pickleball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2152,116,118,117,968],"class_list":{"0":"post-157097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-development","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-mayport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}