![]() ![]() In Jacksonville Beach, many businesses reopened Monday and several workers such as Annie Heidler, manager of the Ocean Grill on First Street North facing the now-damaged Jacksonville Beach Pier, said she couldn’t believe there wasn’t some kind of substantial damage. “Last week, I was marching through snow,” said Burgess, who added she was in town for a professional conference that was canceled, so she switched into full-on vacation mode. “I got here Saturday and there were no hotel. “A beach is a beach,” Burgess said with a laugh. “It’s back to business as usual,” Williams said as she was checking in guests.ĭespite that a hurricane just plowed through the area, Hilary Burgess from Aspen, Colo., said she was happy to spend some vacation days in Neptune Beach. At $149 per room, it was a big loss in revenue.īut that was put quickly behind the SeaHorse Monday. On the south side of Atlantic Boulevard in Neptune Beach, the SeaHorse Oceanfront Inn workers were taking down shutters Monday, and hotel manager Terri Williams said they closed all 39 rooms from Thursday through Sunday. ![]() “We remained open during the storm and were able to provide shelter for some residents around the area.” “Considering where were located and the path of the storm, we sustained minimal damage,” Bothwell said. But overall, the swank hotel served as a buttress to the storm. Despite Matthew’s rage, One Ocean maintained 40 percent occupancy for its 193 rooms.īothwell said some water seeped into a few rooms. I think the sand dunes really saved us,” he said.Īt One Ocean Resort & Spa, which rests on the dune line across the street east from Ragtime, Jeanne Bothwell, director of sales and marketing, said the hotel managed to stay open during the entire weekend. “I was a little concerned it might be damaged when we came in. East said he was sure that would have been wrecked with seawater. Ragtime has a unique subterranean dining area similar to a basement. We’re bringing in everything fresh and starting from scratch,” East said. Ragtime lost about $50,000 in revenue from customers during the closure, and an additional $20,000 will be spent on repairs to the restaurant’s facilities, such as coolers. ”Ībout $8,000 in food was destroyed during the hurricane event, East said. “We had to eliminate all of our food and we started bringing in fresh product. “We were closed Friday, Saturday and Sunday and our freezer was down for an undetermined amount of time,” East said. Loss from spoiled food was common among restaurants in the coastal area where there were power outages for extended periods.Īt Ragtime Seafood Tavern and Grill in Atlantic Beach, a block from the Atlantic Boulevard beach access where water poured into the streets Friday, manager Rich East was assessing the damage Monday and was relieved there was no structural damage to the business. A normal Sunday would have been huge,” Wooten said. And there was no Jacksonville Jaguars game. In spoiled seafood alone, the operation lost about $25,000, and there was an additional estimated $100,000 loss in revenue from no sales over the weekend. ![]() Also, the market closed on Wednesday in preparation for the storm and remained closed Monday. The seafood housed in the restaurant and market was a total loss due to a power outage, Wooten said. Safe Harbor owner Chris Wooten said the complex sustained damage to the roof of the fish house, some docks were damaged with missing boards, and the marina hosting the gaming ship sustained damage to fencing and the roof to the marina offices. Safe Harbor also owns the docks where Victory Casino Cruises headquarters its gaming ship. ![]() Less than a half-mile south on Ocean Street in Mayport Village on Monday, workers at Safe Harbor Seafood Market and Restaurant were cleaning up debris and fixing damage to some of the buildings and docks where commercial seafood fishermen deliver their catches. It survived Hurricane Dora and now it survived Matthew.” “I expected it, to be honest, to be a total loss,” Gravenor said, noting he saw pictures of the river water rising near the restaurant on social media as the hurricane skirted the coast. Given what happened from the might of Hurricane Matthew, which blasted through the area Friday, and what could have happened if the storm’s eye actually made landfall, Gravenor said he’s breathing a sigh of relief for a landmark that could have been destroyed. ![]()
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