Health club chain coming to Gateway

Youfit Health Clubs is coming to Gateway Town Center on Norwood Avenue. The national chain has signed a 10-year lease on a 17,678- square-foot space for its first location in Jacksonville. Opening is expected in August.

Contracts start at $10 a month.

Youfit has 48 clubs in Florida, but the only two north of Orlando are in Tallahassee. An employee in the Winter Park club said they usually hire about 16 to 18 people.

With Youfit, Gateway will be 44 percent occupied.CENTENE

Centene Sunshine Health got its building permit for tenant improvement at 5210 Belfort Road 0200: $188,000,10,364 square feet, Dav Lin Interior Contractors. The city OK'd incentives last month after the Centene said it would add 125 employees in Jacksonville with an average salary of $48,814 per year. It currently has 107 employees here.M SHACK

In March, I reported that Matthew Medure had signed a letter of intent, but not a lease, to open an M Shack in the Shoppes on Riverside. He thought he would make a decision by the end of April.

But he hasn't. He's still looking around and trying to decide.WHOLE FOODS

Whole Foods Market has a plan to open 1,000 stores in markets it never considered before, Forbes has reported. That would include smaller stores in smaller markets and big stores in some of the decidedly non-yuppie neighborhoods of Detroit and Chicago.

As far as a second store in Jacksonville or someplace else in Northeast Florida, a Whole Foods spokesman simply said: "At this time we have no plans to open additional stores in the area."ALMOST ALL DINING

Last year, I did a story about how dining and services (hair salons, nail salons, etc.) are taking over strip shopping centers. There's not much pure retail in them anymore.

The other day, I was in the Baymeadows Festival center, anchored by Gators Dockside. There is a Dollar Tree right in the middle of it. But otherwise, it's almost all food: Dockside, an Italian going in where Indian Express was, subs, takeout pizza, Persian and a sausage deli opening soon.ETC.

Although it's not final, Pollack Shores Real Estate Group is leaning toward the name of Brooklyn Riverside for its 310-unit apartment complex on Riverside Avenue. The first units are expected to be finished late this year with completion early next.

A reader asked about a fence going up around 7147 Merrill Road. Fifth Third Bank owns the lot but has no plans to build a bank there anytime soon, a spokeswoman said. The fence is just to secure the property.

Dean and Tangela Eddy have opened a Truly Nolen pest control franchise service in St. Augustine and Palm Coast.

Bob Miller and his daughter, Cheryl, have opened a Brightway Insurance office on U.S. 1 in St. Augustine.SALES

Formation Capital, based in suburban Atlanta, closed on two Jacksonville nursing homes last week. It paid $17,923,000 for Riverwood Center, a 240-bed nursing home at 2802 Parental Home Road. It sold for $13,623,700 in 2012. And it paid $13.3 million for San Jose Health, a 120-bed facility at 9355 San Jose Blvd. That sold for $10.2 million in 2012.

New Daily Ventures of Atlantic Beach paid $2.1 million for a 3,024-square-foot convenience store at 2425 Mayport Road.PERMITS

1 EverBank Field Drive, North End Zone improvement and video board display at EverBank Field, $57,512,649, joint venture, Hunt & Elkins. The $63 million project will be unveiled July 26 at the soccer match between Fulham and D.C. United. Construction is well underway.

9551 Baymeadows Road, interior build-out for Patel Brothers Indian grocery, $364,800, 11,000 square feet, Uni Construction. The Chicago-based chain has 50 stores and hopes to be open here by summer.

11151 W. Beaver St., new Dollar General store, $350,000, 9,100 square feet, Concept Construction.

6060 Fort Caroline Road 0003, tenant build-out for Great Wall Chinese restaurant, $55,700, 1,200 square feet, Shrout Companies.

1549 University Blvd., tenant build-out for coin laundry, $24,500, 1,500 square feet, Prism Design & Construction.

14932-14950 Venosa Circle, six new town homes by Standard Pacific Homes in Montevilla just off Bartram Park Boulevard, $245,000- $280,000 each.

3624-3634 Casitas Drive, five new town homes by Pulte Homes in Vizcaya off Hodges Boulevard, $200,000 each.

1900 Boulevard, modifications to pavilion patient rooms at UF Health, $65,000, 3,048 square feet, Perry-McCall Construction.

5676 Timuquana Road, tenant build-out for Seaboard Liquor store, $20,500, 2,226 square feet, Prism Design & Construction.

9963 Beach Blvd., build-out for My Dreams Cuban Caf, $13,000, 800 square feet, Quality Trust Investments.

1965 San Marco Blvd., metal awning on back of Beach Diner, $6,500, 210 square feet, Advanced Awning & Design.

120 E. Forsyth St., interior demolition of Old Republic National Title Insurance building, $34,000, 10,000 square feet, McAneny Builders. Developer Mike Langton paid $450,000 for the building and is beginning to renovate it.

12795 San Jose Blvd. 0015, interior build-out for Jersey Mike's, $120,000, 1,440 square feet, Blankenship Construction & Development.

4378 Ocean St., solid roof over existing deck at Safe Harbor Seafood restaurant in Mayport, $4,000, 256 square feet, Florida Pools of Jacksonville.

7743 Alphons St., additions/renovation to existing single family for use as a community hall, $245,000, 6,741 square feet, Hickox Contracting.

3500 Newcomb Road, open structure for gatherings and concerts at Flamingo Lake RV Park, $32,000, 2,480 square feet, Joseph Wilson.

3038 St. Johns Bluff Road S., tenant improvement for FMC renal dialysis center St. Johns Bluff, $911,600, 11,694 square feet, Pooley Enterprises.

1080 Edgewood Ave. S., interior build-out for Avondale Dance Directions, $75,000, 2,326 square feet, James Kaufman General [email protected], (904) 359-4296