{"id":400251,"date":"2026-09-15T07:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400251\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T07:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:34:40","slug":"demolition-begins-on-regency-square-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400251\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition begins on Regency Square Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h998712-p1\">Demolition of what began as the Southeast\u2019s largest enclosed and air conditioned shopping mall began Sunday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h998712-p2\">By the time demolition is completed, <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/05\/30\/regency-squares-last-tenants-are-closing-for-good\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Regency Square Mall<\/a> might be circling the 60th anniversary of its grand opening on March 2, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>The city <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/08\/28\/demolition-of-regency-square-mall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued a permit<\/a> Aug. 28 for Realco Recycling Co. Inc. to demolish the East Mall between Impact Church and the former JC Penney department store at the 9501 Arlington Expresssway property.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/sep\/14\/demolition-starts-on-regency-square-mall\/\" 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":"Demolition of what began as the Southeast\u2019s largest enclosed and air conditioned shopping mall began Sunday. By the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-400251","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\/400251","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=400251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}