A New Whole Foods Is Opening Soon On Riverside Avenue In Jacksonville

A Whole Foods Market will anchor the One Riverside project on the southwest corner of Riverside avenue and Acosta Bridge in Jacksonville, Florida. The $250 million One Riverside project is replacing the demolished Florida Times-Union building.

The old Florida Times-Union building was home to what is widely believed to be the oldest newspaper in Florida from 1967 to 2019.

One Riverside project

One Riverside project is an upcoming mixed-use project which will not only have retail space anchored by Whole Foods but will also have luxury multi-family residential units and restaurants. The project is being developed in 2 phases by Fuqua Development.

• Whole Foods Market was founded in Austin, Texas back in 1980.
• In 1984 Whole Foods began to expand beyond Austin.
• In 2017, Amazon announced it would acquire Whole Foods Market.

• Jacksonville is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States.
• The area was originally inhabited by the Timucua people.
• It was named after the 7th President of the United States: Andrew Jackson.
• A fire in 1901 downtown Jacksonville, destroyed over 2000 buildings and left approximately 10,000 people homeless.