The Gateway Jax development partnership is seeking conceptual approval from the Downtown Development Review Board for designs of its Block N7 project to replace the former First Baptist Church main auditorium.

The Downtown Development Review Board is scheduled to consider the designs at its Aug. 14 meeting.

Plans for the site, at 119 W. Beaver St., include a 15-story apartment tower with about 250 units, six levels of parking and a 32,000-square-foot grocery store in 39,000 total square feet of retail. Renderings show retail space along Union, Beaver and Laura streets. The block is bordered by those three streets, along with Hogan Street.

Two levels of parking are directly above the grocery store and designated for the store’s use. Other parking levels are for the residential units.

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