Culver’s is exploring a 1.29-acre site on Lem Turner Road in Northwest Jacksonville, a quarter-mile north of Interstate 295, where site plans call for a 4,300-square-foot restaurant with a drive-thru, indoor seating and a patio. The vacant land is owned by John Grant-Dooley, Jean Grant-Dooley and Robert Gittings, and no franchisee is identified on the plan.
The filing comes from a request to JEA to determine service availability for the project, according to Jacksonville Daily Record, whose reporter Karen Brune Mathis covers the restaurant beat for the outlet. Newkirk Engineering Inc., based in Ormond Beach, is listed as the project applicant. Under JEA’s design guidelines updated in January, submitting a Service Availability Request through the utility’s SagesGov platform is the first formal step developers take to verify connection points and capacity before they can apply for city building permits, according to JEA, which conducts preliminary service availability reviews within 15 business days.
That means the Lem Turner Road project remains in an early due-diligence phase rather than a completed real estate deal, as the Daily Record’s reporting makes clear. A JEA request signals a company is exploring a site, not that a lease or purchase has closed.
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If built, the restaurant would become Culver’s 11th location in the Northeast Florida area. The chain currently operates five restaurants in Duval County, three in St. Johns County, one in Clay County and one in Nassau County, giving it at least 10 restaurants across the region already. The area’s first Culver’s opened in Middleburg in July 2019…