{"id":380802,"date":"2026-08-25T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380802\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:42:08","slug":"jacksonville-weighing-incentives-for-relaunch-of-bellwether-restaurant-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380802\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville weighing incentives for relaunch of Bellwether restaurant Downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Downtown Investment Authority would provide a forgivable loan of nearly $200,000 to resurrect Bellwether restaurant under new ownership and management, according to a proposal set for consideration by the DIA board Aug. 27.<\/p>\n<p>DIA Resolution 2026-08-04 would provide a $198,863 loan to relaunch and build-out the restaurant at 117 W. Forsyth St. to include what is described in a DIA staff report as \u201ca refreshed Bellwether restaurant, an elevated bar program, a new Temaki Room Japanese handroll and omakase concept, and a morning breakfast and coffee program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On July 30, Pearl Hospitality Group announced it was acquiring Bellwether and <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/08\/03\/bellwether-reopen-downtown-jacksonville\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/08\/03\/bellwether-reopen-downtown-jacksonville\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">would reopen a revised version of it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/aug\/24\/dia-board-to-consider-incentive-for-relaunch-of-bellwether-restaurant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Read the rest of this story<\/a>\u00a0at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a\u00a0Jacksonville Today\u00a0news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Downtown Investment Authority would provide a forgivable loan of nearly $200,000 to resurrect Bellwether restaurant under new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-380802","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\/380802","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=380802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}