{"id":199560,"date":"2026-03-20T19:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199560\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:27:14","slug":"restaurant-investor-buys-former-mossfire-grill-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199560\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant investor buys former Mossfire Grill building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran restaurant and bar owner Scott McAlister has bought the former <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/10\/15\/mossfire-grill-closing-five-points\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mossfire Grill<\/a> building for $1.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Mossfire Grill at 1537 Margaret St. had a <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2022\/11\/30\/the-mossfire-grill-in-five-points-is-sold\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">27-year run<\/a> before it closed in November. It was known for its homestyle and Tex-Mex fare.<\/p>\n<p>McAlister is a real estate investor, hospitality entrepreneur and licensed contractor. He owns businesses in the King Street area: The Rogue, a whiskey bar at 927 King St.; The Loft, a nightclub at 925 King St.; The Garage, a pub at 2692 King St.; and the Whiteway Delicatessen at 1237 King St.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/mar\/20\/scott-mcalister-buys-mossfire-grill-property\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran restaurant and bar owner Scott McAlister has bought the former Mossfire Grill building for $1.4 million. Mossfire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-199560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199560","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=199560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}