I was in my 20s in the 80s and spent a lot of time in Baymeadows as I worked in the Baymeadows industrial park for 6 years.
Back then there was a great sports bar, comedy club and a lot of good restaurants.
A few years ago there was a story about the JSO chasing a perp through the BW3 wing bar on
Baymeadows road......I knew then that area had turned into a crap hole.....and sadly Mandarin is in the direct path of the blight.
Starting down on Baymeadows and Philips Hwy. you have the Florida Cafe, then you had Bombay Bicycle Club and then the Bar/lounge at the Holiday Inn and further down at Baymeadows and Southside, you had T-Birds, I think that was the name it was a oldies type bar, all those places were usually packed with a younger professional crowd.
>and sadly Mandarin is in the direct path of the blight.
IMO, they’d have to bull-doze a bunch of houses to put in anything more compact....I don’t see anyone selling out like that around here (yes, there are a few bad spots, but easily avoided...Unlike Mandarin/Southside & ESPECIALLY O.P./Westside)