On October 6, 2026, the Jupiter Town Council voted 5–0 to approve Resolution 72-26, the site plan amendment for the Shoppes at Jupiter at 101 N. US Highway One. The tenant list hadn't changed since July. Whole Foods Market and Total Wine & More were coming then and they're still coming now. Over those eleven weeks, the work went into driveways, a boundary wall, a truck route, paint colors and a much larger check toward a new road design on East Indiantown Road.
Two Palm Beach Post stories already covered the new stores. The meeting packet behind the vote shows which changes residents will see first, and most of them happen at the curb, not in the storefronts.
The Corner the Council Was Protecting
The plaza sits at U.S. 1 and Indiantown Road, across from Harbourside Place and just south of the U.S. 1 bridge. Ram Realty Advisors of Palm Beach Gardens paid more than $52 million for the nearly 50-year-old center in 2025. When the plan first reached the Council on July 21, members postponed the vote and asked for more information on traffic and on what the plaza would look like.
Council member Malise Sundstrom explained the hesitation at that July meeting, as reported by The Palm Beach Post:
"This is such a major transition for a part of town that hasn't been looked at in a long time with a lot of traffic impacts. We have to get this right because this will impact circulation. This is our beach. This is our inlet village. It is the gateway to the beach in a way."
The Town's October 6 staff report lists the four issues the Council left open in July.
- Changes to the architectural elevations
- Changes to the boundary wall north of Whole Foods
- A way to bring semi-trucks in without using A1A
- The applicant's financial contribution toward an elongated roundabout
Each one ended up as a physical change to the site. Three of the four are about movement.
Why the Southeast Entrance Was the Real Problem
The roundabout dispute goes back further than this application. In 2015 and 2016, the Town studied East Indiantown Road and identified the plaza's southeast entrance as an access and safety problem. Because of where the median and driveways sit, a driver coming from U.S. 1 has two ways in from that side. One is an eastbound U-turn on Indiantown Road. The other is an illegal left turn into the rear loading driveway. Neither has a refuge lane where a car can wait out of traffic. A shared drive serving the church and the Ocean Parks condominium community sits next to that loading entrance, and across the road, Jupiter Square's access drive doesn't line up with either driveway on the north side. The Town didn't make changes at the time.
Under the new plan, the supermarket goes in the southeast corner of the plaza, right next to that entrance, and staff expect more cars to use it. A layout that had worked for a Beall's now has to handle grocery traffic.
After the Planning and Zoning Commission hearing on June 9, the Town's traffic engineer drafted an elongated roundabout about 600 feet east of the U.S. 1 intersection. It allows left turns from both eastbound and westbound Indiantown Road and doesn't require extra right-of-way from the plaza or from Jupiter West Plaza to the south, though easements are still needed. A later revision removed the eastern portion of the median so Ocean Trail residents can turn left from Indiantown Road, added a no-left-turn sign for drivers heading into the retail center, and added a sidewalk tie-in and crosswalk at the plaza's southwest access drive.
Ram's contribution toward that improvement rose from $151,200 to $500,000 between the July and October hearings. Staff wrote that the Council wanted the roundabout built before Whole Foods opens, and that it could be built as a Town Community Redevelopment Agency project.
The Rules That Change How You Drive In and Out
The resolution text in the October 6 meeting packet turns those negotiations into conditions. Drivers will notice four of them:
- Truck route. Semi-trucks can't enter from Indiantown Road. They have to enter and exit through the access drive on U.S. 1. To make that work, the site plan removes parking spaces at the rear of the plaza so trucks have room for a three-point turn. Trucks no longer need A1A or Indiantown Road.
- Southern exits. The arrows on both southern exit drives change from straight-only to right-turn only.
- Easements before the grocery. Before the Town issues development permits for the supermarket, the owner has to provide a utility easement along the entire southern property line and a temporary construction easement about 170 feet long for the roundabout or another access improvement.
- The $500,000. The money goes toward access and safety improvements on East Indiantown Road.
The Council's synopsis records the approval "as amended" without listing the amendments. The conditions above come from the draft resolution in the meeting packet, and the final adopted text may differ in details.
The Wall, the Colors and the Patio
The other conditions deal with what neighbors and regular visitors look at.
The wall by Ocean Parks. The first plan removed 30 to 35 feet of the existing boundary wall to improve circulation where the plaza's drive aisles merge with the drive serving the church and residential community. After a concern was raised, the revised plan removes only about 10 feet and lowers 20 feet of the remaining southern section to about 30 inches.
The colors. The original white and cool-gray palette is gone. The revised elevations use beiges with a warm dark-gray accent and a sand-look base wall instead of a gray cement look, which staff tied to the site's proximity to the beach. A light wood canopy ceiling and wood-look accents run along the Whole Foods and Total Wine facades.
The Parisian's outdoor seating. The Planning and Zoning Commission raised the lack of shade at the Parisian restaurant's outdoor seating, along with painting the theater facade. The resolution requires a permanent covering for the seating area at Bay D9. It could be a canopy, awning, trellis or shade structure that matches the building.
The landscaping. The conditions call for ongoing vegetation management and monitoring, annual reports to the Town by June 1, and replacement of dead or dying plants before a Certificate of Completion is issued. The Commission had asked specifically for annual monitoring of the mangrove area when it recommended approval 6–1 in June.
Cinépolis Stays, With Fewer Seats
The plaza is probably best known for its Cinépolis theater. Ram's chief retail officer, Brian Maloney, told the Council in July that the owner wants to make the theater smaller to free up room for stores.
The resolution ties that downsizing to parking. Before the Town permits any interior buildout that increases parking demand, the owner has to file a building permit cutting theater seats to the number on the approved site plan, and the Town inspects the seat count before signing off. The theater facade also has to be repainted to match the rest of the plaza by January 1, 2029.
Who Has Already Moved, and What Comes Next
Some tenants have already left. Golden Pavilion, which served soups, chow mein, fried rice and lo mein at the Shoppes for at least a decade, has moved to the Admirals Crossing Shopping Plaza at Military Trail and Frederick Small Road, about three miles southwest. Sprouts Farmers Market, Planet Fitness and Berry Fresh Cafe are among its new neighbors. The Palm Beach Sports Club gym and the Soul Rebel cafe have closed.
The reported timeline stretches out over the next two years. Total Wine is expected to replace the long-time Staples in late 2027, and Whole Foods is expected to replace Beall's in spring 2028. Those dates describe the planned replacements. No source reviewed confirms that either current store has closed. Maloney said other small-shop tenants would open between mid-2027 and mid-2028, and that the owner was talking with a coffee shop, a cosmetics retailer, fitness outlets and service businesses. He compared the planned mix to grocery-anchored centers like Chasewood.
Several rumors are still only rumors. RH said in July that it has no plans for the plaza, and a Cava spokesperson said the company had no concrete plans to share. Sundstrom said early talks with the Town had mentioned Lululemon and Ulta, but the Town hadn't heard any follow-up.
The start date is also unsettled. The Post reported that Ram hoped to begin work later in 2026, and the coverage reviewed for this post gives no firm construction start. Because the conditions tie the supermarket's development permits to the roundabout easements, and staff noted the Council wanted the roundabout finished before Whole Foods opens, road work on East Indiantown Road could show up well ahead of the grocery store.
If you live near U.S. 1 and Indiantown Road, a site plan like this one can affect your property's value through access, truck routes and how long construction lasts. Trisha Hutchinson has more than 15 years of construction and permitting experience and reads approvals like Resolution 72-26 condition by condition. If you want to know how the Shoppes at Jupiter conditions might show up in a buyer's questions about your home, start with a home valuation, and we'll walk you through what this approval means for your street.
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