When the Jonas Brothers walk off the stage at the end of their Dec. 30 concert at Daily’s Place, the show won’t be the only thing coming to an end — the venue itself will shut down for at least three years.
Bold Events, the events-organizing firm owned by Jaguars owner Shad Khan that operates Daily’s Place, is announcing today that the venue will suspend programming for 2026 and 2027 due to the Stadium of the Future construction project that will transform EverBank Stadium. Daily’s Place, a concert venue that seats about 5,500, is directly connected to the stadium.
“Daily’s Place is going to take a temporary pause,” said Stephanie Lynn, director of marketing and live events. “We’re calling this an intermission. This is a planned, temporary intermission. We will return once the surrounding work allows. What year that is, remains to be seen.”
Daily’s Place opened in 2017 and was the site for 24 events this year, drawing more than 88,000 fans. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Shania Twain, Teddy Swims, Avril Lavigne and Vampire Weekend all drew big crowds in 2025.
Initial construction costs for Daily’s Place were around $90 million, with the city and the Jaguars splitting the cost. The city owns the venue, and it is managed by Bold Events.
The construction project will involve replacing the upper decks of the stadium and adding a roof to the structure. The Jaguars will play in the stadium in 2026, but the upper decks will not be used. The stadium will be shut down entirely in 2027, and the team will play its home games at Camping World Stadium in Orlando for that season. The construction project, which is already underway, also means there will be no concerts, TaxSlayer Gator Bowls, Florida-Georgia games or Monster Jam shows in the stadium in 2026 or 2027.
It is unclear at this point when Daily’s could come back online, Lynn said. The Jaguars won’t return to the stadium until August of 2028, and if Daily’s isn’t available until then, it would wipe out the 2026 and ’27 concert seasons, plus much of the ’28 slate. Daily’s has opened its season as early as February in some years.
Alex Alston, executive director of the city’s Office of Sports and Entertainment, said the closure is directly related to the construction project. “It’s a necessary step in the evolution of the Stadium of the Future,” Alston said.
He said the goal is to resume programming at Daily’s Place around the same time the Jaguars return to the stadium, but it is possible that concerts could return earlier in 2028. “We’d all love to have a crystal ball,” he said.
The Daily’s Place stage is also used before Jaguars games, with musicians entertaining fans. The amphitheater is also available during games for fans looking to escape the heat or rain. Lynn said it is unclear if Daily’s will be used that way in 2026.
While the overall roofline of the stadium will change significantly, Lynn said she isn’t anticipating big changes to the look of Daily’s Place. The future usage of the flex field, which is behind the Daily’s Place stage and was designed as a Jaguars practice facility, remains unclear.
“Yes, there will still be a Daily’s Place,” Lynn said. “There will be some differences around the concert-going experience.”
Lynn said the Daily’s Place social accounts will remain active during the break. “We’re really excited about this,” she said. “Daily’s Place is not hiding, we’re not slinking off in the shadows.”
The amphitheater opened in May of 2017 with a show by Jacksonville’s Tedeschi Trucks Band. It has subsequently played host to taco festivals, the Jacksonville Symphony, NFL draft parties and hundreds of concerts. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John held a showing of “Grease” at Daily’s in 2019, and All Elite Wrestling, which is owned by Tony Khan, the Jaguars’ Chief Football Strategy Officer, broadcast wrestling events from the venue during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Work on the stadium renovations began earlier this year and limited Daily’s Place to 24 shows in 2025. Fans found large areas of the parking lot fenced off, the entrance moved and some parts of the lobby closed for the construction of a new staircase servicing the stadium.
Gabe Pellicer is president and CEO of SJC Cultural Events, the organization that runs the St. Augustine Amphitheatre, which is about 800 seats smaller than Daily’s Place. He said he expects St. Augustine to pick up some shows in Daily’s absence, but that other tours will simply skip this market if there isn’t an available venue for them to play. He explained that his organization isn’t really in competition with Daily’s for bookings or fans. He said the important thing is to maintain Jacksonville and St. Augustine as a viable market so that acts don’t just skip over it when booking their tours.
“We’re all actually on the same team when it comes to getting artists to the market,” he said. “It hurts having one venue down because you have less days for the play to happen in the market.”
He said there is maybe one show a year where Daily’s and St. Augustine are bidding against each other.
“You would think it comes off as a competition but it really doesn’t,” he said. “The rising tide lifts all ships. There are times in which we are both putting in offers for an artist, but there’s enough for Daily’s Place to have a very successful year, and the St. Augustine Amphitheatre to do the same.”
St. Augustine had to adjust when Daily’s entered the market in 2017. Pellicer said he expects the same impact when Daily’s returns in 2028. In the meantime, he said, some maintenance projects are being put on hold in St. Augustine so the venue can be available. “We’re definitely open to do whatever we can. It’s important for us to maintain the market.”
