Sun-Ray Cinema will soon leave its Park Street location and a new company has officially applied to lease the building it is located in.
A company called JRFMJAXTOO Inc. filed with the Florida Department of State’s Division of Corporations on May 17 and has its principal place of business at 1028 Park St., according to the electronic articles of incorporation at sunbiz.org.
This address is currently home to Sun-Ray, the Five Points movie theater that will close at the end of July after the building was sold in April. There are also several office spaces for rent in the building.
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The incorporation papers list a principal address for Josh Billue in Nashville. Billue is listed as the owner of Marathon Live, a “full-service entertainment venue.”
The company started with Marathon Music Works, a Nashville venue founded in 2011, which is described on its website as “now one of the last independently owned and operated venues in the city.”
The company has since expanded to locations in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Kansas City, MO; Little Rock, Arkansas; and St. Louis since 2017, according to the website.
In 2022, the company announced plans to establish a space in Jacksonville.
The location will move to Dennis + Ives at 1505 Dennis St. in Jacksonville’s Rail Yard District. The commercial space will also include offices, restaurants and retail space.
Jeremy Hicks, Marathon Live’s communications director, declined to answer questions about the new business, saying their “PR partner will be in touch” when they are ready to “make a formal announcement about this project.”
Hicks also noted that the Park Street application is a separate project from the one announced in 2022 and is “still in the works.”
It is unclear whether this “project” is intended to take over the theater portion of the building or another vacant unit.
News of Sun-Ray’s closure first broke in April when an online petition to keep the theater running circulated. Further rumors swirled that there were plans to turn the space into a parking garage, which would have been a lengthy and unlikely process due to the facade’s historic status, which affords it special protections from the city.
Sun-Ray opened in 2011, but the building was sold to new owners, Union South Partners, in May. The theater’s official final day has not yet been announced, but the owners have confirmed that the company will vacate the space in the Five Points Theater Building at the end of July.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Sun-Ray Cinema could be replaced by Nashville entertainment venue
