One new brewery is in the works on Mayport Road while another, with a restaurant, is in the planning stages for the Brooklyn neighborhood.

The Brooklyn project is planned for Dora Street between Chelsea and Spruce streets, four blocks north of 220 Riverside. The former Mt. Calvary Baptist Church at the corner of corner of Spruce and Dora was built in 1955 and abandoned since 1999. That would become the beer brewery, according to plans submitted to the Downtown Development Review Board.

A 5,000-square-foot restaurant would be built on the empty lot at the corner of Chelsea and Dora, according to the plans.

But there is no restaurant or brewery ready to go into those places yet. The projects are going through the design and permitting processes, while CBRE commercial brokers are talking to prospective tenants.

Building would not begin until the entitlements are in place and the tenants signed, said Tripp Gulliford, senior managing director of CBRE. He said Laura Bahri is in charge of the leasing and talking to several prospective tenants.

Bedopas LLC of Jacksonville Beach paid $147,900 for four parcels totalling 0.65 acres there last year. The property had sold for $400,000 in 2006.

The project on Mayport Road is more definite. Eric Luman, part-owner and head brewer at Green Room Brewing in Jacksonville Beach, is opening Reve Brewing with his wife, Vanessa.

It’s going to be a small place, just 1,200 square feet total, including brewery and taproom, in a strip shopping center at 1237 Mayport Road, a little less than 1 mile north of Atlantic Blvd. It’ll seat about 50 people, he said.

He plans to have 8 to 10 of his own beers on tap at a time along with a few guest beers. The focus will be on imperial stouts, often barrel-aged, sours and New England style IPAs. And he’s not planning to distribute at all. Everything made on his 3.5-barrel system will be for the tap room.

"We’re a neighborhood bar that happens to serve its own beer," he said.

As more breweries continue to open in Jacksonville and elsewhere, it gets harder to get your beer out into the marketplace, he said. Green Room, which opened a little more than six years ago, sells half of its beer in kegs to distributors, and then on to bars and restaurants.

"I don’t know what the saturation point is," he said. "But we haven’t hit it yet. And the number of neighborhood bars is probably unlimited."

He said they’re shooting for a March opening and that his involvement in Green Room, as part-owner and brewer, won’t change.

Roger Bull: (904) 359-4296