Gateway Jax is cleared to start work on the ground floor of the “lighthouse” parking garage Downtown to make space for stores and restaurants at its Pearl Square project.
The city issued a permit Jan. 6 for ShayCore LLC of Jacksonville to add shell space for future commercial use in the five-story garage on 1.5 acres at 721 N. Pearl St. at a project cost of $8.96 million.
The project consists of an adaptive reuse of the structure, known as Block N5 and bounded clockwise by Union, Julia, Beaver and Pearl streets. Plans show commercial space on the ground floor facing Beaver Street to the south…