{"id":392749,"date":"2026-09-07T10:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392749\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:44:34","slug":"hotel-and-tower-under-review-at-riverfront-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392749\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel and tower under review at Riverfront Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h994771-p1\">More than eight months after acquiring a development pad in <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/05\/14\/riverfront-plaza-phase-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riverfront Plaza<\/a> through a land swap with the city of Jacksonville, Gateway Jax is seeking conceptual design approval for its proposed hotel and residential tower on the site.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h994771-p2\">The Downtown Development Review Board is scheduled to consider the project, identified in board documents as the Riverfront Plaza Hotel &amp; Residences, during a meeting Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h994771-p3\">Gateway Jax\u2019s plans for the pad came to light in early 2025 after the city proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/06\/10\/land-swap-for-uf-campus-paves-way-for-riverfront-development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an exchange of the property<\/a>, which was then city owned, for the former Interline Brands building at 801 W. Bay St., which Gateway Jax bought in October 2024 for $4 million from HD Supply Facilities Maintenance Ltd. of Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The city sought the Interline Brands building to provide it to the University of Florida for its graduate campus in LaVilla.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/sep\/03\/gateway-jax-seeks-first-round-design-approval-for-riverfront-plaza-tower\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than eight months after acquiring a development pad in Riverfront Plaza through a land swap with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-392749","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\/392749","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=392749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}