Gateway Jax to Redevelop Historic Ambassador Hotel in Jacksonville as Part of $2B Pearl Square Project

Gateway Jax to Redevelop Historic Ambassador Hotel in Jacksonville as Part of $2B Pearl Square Project

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Locally based development firm Gateway Jax plans to redevelop the historic Ambassador Hotel located at 420 N. Julia St. in downtown Jacksonville. The developer, along with hotelier The Indigo Road Hospitality Group, will restore the 1924-era property into a hotel with at least 100 guestrooms, a high-end restaurant and bar, conference space and other amenities for business and leisure travelers. In addition to the hotel, Gate…

Gateway Jax Announces Ambassador Hotel Plans

Commercial real estate company to redevelop and integrate historic hotel building into Pearl Square.

Glory is returning to historic Ambassador Hotel

The brick and stone facade of the vacant Ambassador Hotel bears few traces of its former glory as a 120-room hotel once home to Jacksonville’s elite. The hotel’s steel awning still hangs over the lobby door, and the elaborate arched roof stands six stories over West Church Street. But the hotel was last occupied in 1998, then it was condemned and boarded up. Now it could get new life as part of Gateway Jax’s eight-block Downtown redevelopment pr…