{"id":331727,"date":"2026-07-07T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331727\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:20:08","slug":"chick-fil-a-tests-downtown-jacksonville-market-with-temporary-jax-tower-pop-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331727\/","title":{"rendered":"Chick-fil-A tests Downtown Jacksonville market with temporary Jax Tower pop-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Chick-fil-A is exploring an expansion into Downtown Jacksonville, offering lunch service temporarily at a former lobby coffee counter in Jax Tower at 50 North, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/06\/chick-fil-a-opens-lunch-counter-to-test-market-in-downtown-jacksonville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/06\/chick-fil-a-opens-lunch-counter-to-test-market-in-downtown-jacksonville\/\">according to our news partners at the Jacksonville Daily Record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Tenants in the building at 50 N. Laura St., formerly the Bank of America Tower, were notified in an email that the fast-food chain would be on-site from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday from July 6 through August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cWhile this is a temporary arrangement, Chick-fil-A is using this opportunity to test both the downtown market and our building as a potential location for a future full-time, full-service restaurant,\u201d the email read, noting the temporary site is selling items from a limited menu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Sarah Teagle, a senior associate of office brokerage at Cushman &amp; Wakefield, confirmed July 6 that the counter was open. She said sandwiches sold out the first day and that the chain was considering adding breakfast service based on requests from customers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Cushman &amp; Wakefield\u2019s property management division manages the tower and took over leasing and management around January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/06\/chick-fil-a-opens-lunch-counter-to-test-market-in-downtown-jacksonville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/06\/chick-fil-a-opens-lunch-counter-to-test-market-in-downtown-jacksonville\/\">Click here to read the full story on the Jacksonville Daily Record website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Chick-fil-A is exploring an expansion into Downtown Jacksonville, offering lunch service temporarily at a former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7081,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-331727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-chick-fil-a","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331727","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=331727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}