{"id":354444,"date":"2026-07-28T01:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354444\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T01:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:37:21","slug":"gate-petroleum-buys-portion-of-former-st-augustine-adventure-landing-site-for-planned-carwash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354444\/","title":{"rendered":"Gate Petroleum buys portion of former St. Augustine Adventure Landing site for planned carwash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gate Express Carwash (Jacksonville Daily Record)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. \u2013 Just more than three months after Adventure Landing closed in St. Augustine, Jacksonville-based Gate Petroleum plans to redevelop a portion of the 7.1-acre property on State Road 16, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/\">Jacksonville Daily Record.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/08\/adventure-landing-st-augustine-will-permanently-close-on-sunday-says-it-wont-renew-property-lease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adventure Landing St. Augustine will permanently close on Sunday, says it won\u2019t renew property lease<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Gate purchased the part of the former amusement park property July 24 for $2.1 million. The company confirmed it has plans to build a Gate Express Car Wash on the property. At the time, it\u2019s unclear when construction will begin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Adventure Landing closed April 12 after being sold for $3.6 million to a collection of Alabama and Georgia real estate firms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">St. Johns County is reviewing plans to demolish the park and redevelop the property. The St. Augustine location was the last surviving Adventure Landing in Northeast Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Read more at the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/24\/gate-petroleum-buys-portion-of-former-adventure-landing-site-for-21-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/24\/gate-petroleum-buys-portion-of-former-adventure-landing-site-for-21-million\/\"> Jacksonville Daily Record.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gate Express Carwash (Jacksonville Daily Record) ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. \u2013 Just more than three months after Adventure Landing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1215,2152,116,118,117,2663,5902],"class_list":["post-354444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-adventure-landing","tag-development","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-st-augustine","tag-st-johns-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354444","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=354444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}