Co-owner Mas Liu said March 9 he expects to open the restaurant in June or July.
He said it will be “one of the most upscale Cajun restaurants in Jacksonville.”
“We have a beautiful concept,” he said.
Mas said it will have a chef from Louisiana, and will offer live music on weekends.
He said he and his partner. Yu Chen, are investing $1.5 million in the project.
“There is a lot of competition,” he said. “We are going to have the best one.”
Liu said he and Chen have a Cajun Crab under renovation in Miami, and they have other restaurants in New York. He said many of those have a Cajun menu.
Nashville, Tennessee-based O’Charley’s sold the property to Sunrise Center Group LLC for $1 million.
Amerasia Bank of Miami financed the deal for $650,000 the same day as the sale. The deed and mortgage were recorded Jan. 21 with the Duval County Clerk of Courts.
O’Charley’s Inc. built the 7,124-square-foot building on 1.77 acres in 2002 at 410 Commerce Center Drive.
It closed in September 2019.
The deed, mortgage and state corporate records list Sunrise Center Group LLC’s address as 159 Palencia Village Drive, Suite 111, in St. Augustine.
That address is for the Pacific Asian Bistro Japanese Chinese Ramen and Thai restaurant.
Yu Chen, who could not be reached at the restaurant the evening of Jan. 21, is the manager of the LLC.