Months after initially proposing the idea, Chick-fil-A has finally been approved to relocate one of its locations in Jacksonville to a larger site at 4555 Southside Blvd.
The company has been working for quite some time now to move its Tinseltown location at 4461 Southside Boulevard to a larger space, having started the process last year. Chick-fil-A is getting its wish and has been approved for several permits. Last month, Jacksonville approved construction to redevelop the now-closed Wild Wing Cafe, costing about $1.25 million. Now, the city has issued a permit this week to demolish the new location within Deerwood Park North.
There’s no exact timeline for the relocation, but Chick-fil-A restaurants typically take about 12 weeks to construct from the ground up. Plans show the company will spend $750,000 to clear the 1.96-acre site. Once the project is completed, customers can expect a 5,000-square-foot restaurant with an attached drive-thru canopy over the pick-up window and a 1,357-square-foot outdoor seating area. There will be 62 seats inside and 16 outside, 83 parking spaces, and drive-thru lanes.
The news of the relocation comes shortly after Chick-fil-A released its latest Global Impact Report, which highlights the restaurant company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitments and progress in its four focus areas: Caring for People, Caring for our Communities, Caring for Others through our Food, and Caring for the Planet. The company’s 2025 CSR goals include impacting more than 50,000 Restaurant Team Members through education initiatives, providing 200 million meals throughout its communities, providing more than three million people with resources that support economic mobility, and diverting more than 25 million pounds of food waste from landfills.
“As Chick-fil-A’s global footprint continues to grow, so do our opportunities to serve others and strengthen local communities,” Brent Fielder, Sr. Director of Corporate Social Responsibility for Chick-fil-A, Inc., said in a news release “From local Chick-fil-A Owner-Operators donating excess food to help feed those in need and Chick-fil-A, Inc. providing scholarship opportunities for Restaurant Team Members to recycling used cooking oil and providing grants to nonprofits, Chick-fil-A embraces a variety of efforts to positively impact communities throughout the United States and Canada.”
