{"id":229840,"date":"2026-04-13T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229840\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:02:07","slug":"plans-in-motion-to-bring-culinary-institute-of-america-campus-to-jacksonvilles-northbank-alum-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229840\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans in motion to bring Culinary Institute of America campus to Jacksonville\u2019s Northbank, alum says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 An initiative is in motion to bring a Culinary Institute of America campus to Jacksonville\u2019s Downtown riverfront as part of a proposed hotel, an alumnus of the New York-based private school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/apr\/13\/culinary-institute-of-america-alum-says-plans-in-motion-for-campus-in-jacksonville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/apr\/13\/culinary-institute-of-america-alum-says-plans-in-motion-for-campus-in-jacksonville\/\">told the Jacksonville Daily Record on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to reporting from the Daily Record, alum Dennis Chan said the current president of the institute met with city leaders and local alumni over the past several months as they explored opening a site in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cIt would bring culinary tourism to Jacksonville, and we simply don\u2019t have that,\u201d said Chan, who founded Blue Bamboo Canton Bistro in 2005 and continues to operate it today at 10110 San Jose Blvd. in Mandarin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Chan told the Record that the institute is part of a hotel project being proposed by Jacksonville-based Corner Lot in partnership with Aspect Real Estate Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The proposed hotel, which is planned at the site of the demolished Duval County Courthouse at 330 E. Bay St., is the latest indication that the CIA is interested in establishing a teaching facility in Jacksonville.<\/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\/apr\/13\/culinary-institute-of-america-alum-says-plans-in-motion-for-campus-in-jacksonville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/apr\/13\/culinary-institute-of-america-alum-says-plans-in-motion-for-campus-in-jacksonville\/\">Click here<\/a> to read the full story<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 An initiative is in motion to bring a Culinary Institute of America campus to Jacksonville\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2152,5073,9000,116,118,117,2159],"class_list":["post-229840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-development","tag-downtown-development","tag-downtown-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229840","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=229840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}