Casa Vive yoga studio moves forward with Jacksonville building permit

Casa Vive just moved from concept to construction on Jacksonville’s Southbank, where a $150,000 building permit cleared the way for a 5,500-square-foot build-out at 1520 Prudential Drive. For Jacksonville yogis, that means a new wellness space is taking shape around more than mats and mirrors, with movement, recovery, education and community all built into the plan.

The permit, issued by the city of Jacksonville on June 8, ranked among the largest commercial building permits by job cost that day. 8720 Cleaning Services LLC is listed as the contractor, and the address matches Casa Vive’s own listing for 1520 Prudential Drive in Jacksonville, Florida 32207. The studio has pitched itself as “not a gym” and “not a spa,” but a third space meant to bring wellness under one roof instead of scattering it across separate appointments and studios.

Behind the project is Alejandra Amegin, whose name already carries weight in Jacksonville’s wellness circles. Local profiles describe her as a Navy veteran, a trauma-informed yoga educator and a community builder. Folio Weekly reported that she founded Vive Yoga Studio in 2018 as a veteran- and Latina-owned studio focused on “cultivating safe spaces for sacred practices,” and the Jacksonville Icemen Women in Business feature identified her as founder and president of Jax Natural Healing and Vive Yoga Studio, calling Vive the first Latina-owned yoga studio in Northeast Florida.

The timeline shows Casa Vive has been moving through the formal pipeline for months. Florida Division of Corporations records show Casa Vive LLC was filed on December 2, 2025, with a principal address at 1550 Hendricks Ave. Ste 1-2 in Jacksonville. Property and leasing listings put the Southbank space at roughly 5,670 to 5,700 square feet, which lines up closely with the permit’s build-out size and suggests the project is shaping an existing footprint rather than starting from scratch.

A firm opening date has not been announced, but the permit gives the project a real address and a visible next step. In a crowded fitness market, Casa Vive is betting that Jacksonville residents will respond to a studio that blends yoga with recovery and community, and the Southbank build-out is the first sign that the idea is becoming a place people can actually walk into.