NOCATEE, Fla. \u2014 Nocatee residents are concerned as several local businesses are shutting their doors for good. Three restaurants at the Nocatee Town Center announced their closure in the past couple of months. <\/p>\n
After serving this community for more than three years, Catullo\u2019s Italian in Nocatee is closing its doors on June 25th. They\u2019re not the only ones \u2013 even on the same block. <\/p>\n
Catullo\u2019s Italian, Dick\u2019s Wings, and Wendy\u2019s are all calling it quits in Nocatee.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n After serving Nocatee for 13 years, Dick\u2019s Wings and Grill closed its doors in February. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s always sad to see businesses come and go, especially local ones like this one,\u201d said Luis Quintanilla, a shopper at Nocatee Town Center. <\/p>\n It\u2019s worth noting that Dick\u2019s Grille opened in April 2013, making it one of the original restaurants at the Nocatee Town Center. <\/p>\n \u201cI love the stores. I\u2019m always coming and going and trying things. When they start closing, it\u2019s upsetting,\u201d said Mary-Ann Melchiorri, a Nocatee resident.<\/p>\n Catullo\u2019s is now calling it quits after opening its Town Center location in 2023. Owners announced the difficult decision this week, citing the sale of the space to another restaurant group. <\/p>\n \u201cWith rising prices and the wage increase that just happened again, it\u2019s getting harder and harder for small businesses to move forward and keep doing what they love and what they want to do,\u201d said Catullo\u2019s in a video on social media. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n The Parc Group, which developed Nocatee, tells Action News Jax it sold the Town Center property nearly 20 years ago. Regency Centers owns and operates the shopping center. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been to Dicks Wings. It was great. I don\u2019t know why they closed. Catullo\u2019s is wonderful. I\u2019m surprised that it\u2019s closing. That\u2019s not good,\u201d said Melchiorri.<\/p>\n In a statement, Parc told Action News Jax they\u2019re aware of the closures, tying Wendy\u2019s folding to the company\u2019s announcement last year to shut down 300 of its fast-food locations. Parc did not know why Catullo\u2019s or Dick\u2019s chose to close. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n We reached out to Regency Centers on Wednesday to ask if they\u2019ve raised the rent on any businesses. We will update this story if we hear back. <\/p>\n Wednesday afternoon, Catullo\u2019s posted an update on Instagram. It said two Frenchmen who own restaurants in France plan to open a rustic Italian concept restaurant in place of Catullo\u2019s. <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NOCATEE, Fla. \u2014 Nocatee residents are concerned as several local businesses are shutting their doors for good. Three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,5228,125123,127301,129916,129910,129911,129914,129912,129913,969,129906,116,118,117,634,129905,129908,117192,129915,129919,129909,3032,129917,129918,76487,76489,85517,129907],"class_list":["post-311714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news","tag-action_news_jacks","tag-bliss","tag-bliss_zeman","tag-cotullo","tag-cotullos","tag-cotullos_italian","tag-dicks","tag-dicks_wings","tag-dicks_wings_and_grill","tag-jack","tag-jacks_bliss","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-local","tag-naka_town_center","tag-nakae","tag-nakati","tag-nakati_town_center","tag-nakatti","tag-noccati","tag-park","tag-park_group","tag-regency_centers","tag-wendy","tag-wendys","tag-wings","tag-zeman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311714","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=311714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}