The Shoppes at Jupiter Will Change One Storefront at a Time

The Jupiter Town Council approved the site plan amendment for The Shoppes at Jupiter on October 6 by a 5–0 vote, according to the meeting record posted on OpenFlorida. The plaza sits at 101 N. U.S. Highway One, on the corner across Indiantown Road from Harbourside Place. The approval came after the council continued the item from July 21.

New owner Ram Realty Advisors is replacing the nearly 50-year-old center's anchors one space at a time over roughly a year, starting in late 2027. Before any of that, several tenants have already left.

The Swap Schedule

The Palm Beach Post laid out the order from documents filed with the town. Ram paid more than $52 million for the property in 2025.

Read in order, the table shows that the first new anchor is a wine store, not the grocery. Whole Foods sits about a year and a half away as of November 2026. The theater change could come last, and WPTV described it as a possibility rather than a set date. Under the plan, Staples, Bealls and Cinépolis keep their spots until their turn in the sequence comes.

The First Moves Were Departures

The space between the purchase and the first new opening has already started to empty out. By early September, the Palm Beach Post reported that Golden Pavilion had moved out of the plaza. The Chinese restaurant had sold soups, chow mein, fried rice and lo mein there for at least a decade.

Golden Pavilion did not leave Jupiter. It moved about 3 miles southwest to the Admirals Crossing Shopping Plaza at Military Trail and Frederick Small Road. Its new neighbors there include Sprouts Farmers Market, Planet Fitness and Berry Fresh Cafe. Takeout regulars now have a short drive inland instead of a stop by the beach. The restaurant's recorded phone message said only, "We already moved to the new location."

Two other businesses closed outright in recent months, according to the same report: the Palm Beach Sports Club gym and Soul Rebel cafe. One fitness spot and one cafe gone in the same stretch matters for what comes next, because those are two of the categories the owner says it wants to bring in.

Some tenants are staying for the change. Mary Luz has run MaryLuz Hair Salon next to the Cinépolis theater for 10 years, and she told WPTV in July that the plaza looked old and a renovation would be excellent.

"I did get very excited because it is a big potential to big nice clientele, and me being organic, it's very nice to have somebody organic next to me."

What Ram Says It Is Courting

The empty storefronts raise the obvious question of who fills them. At the July 21 council meeting, Ram's chief retail officer, Brian Maloney, said the owner was talking with a coffee shop, a cosmetics retailer, fitness outlets and service businesses. That list closely matches the kinds of businesses that just left. He also said Ram wants to downsize Cinépolis to make room for more stores.

He described the target mix in terms any Jupiter driver will recognize, as quoted by the Palm Beach Post:

"The proposed tenants will be similar to other grocery-anchored shopping centers you see in Chasewood or in Palm Beach Gardens or other parts of Palm Beach County. Retail is harder to get these days. The Gardens Mall ends up where people go, but I think we will have some kind of boutique retail, local-regional-operator-type retail."

The Chasewood comparison is useful because that center has been through its own rebuild. We covered it in our fall look at Jupiter's returning gathering spots. The model is a grocery anchor with local and regional operators around it, not a mall.

The online wish lists have gotten ahead of the paperwork. The Post reported that RH, formerly Restoration Hardware, shot down talk in July of opening at the plaza, and a Cava spokesperson said the chain had no concrete plans to share. Council member Malise Sundstrom said the owner had early discussions with the town about Lululemon and Ulta, but as of July the town had received no follow-up about either store. Whole Foods and Total Wine are the two tenants with dates attached.

The Council's Terms Are About the Corner

The new stores take up most of the attention, but the council spent its time on the intersection. In July, Sundstrom framed the stakes this way, 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."

That concern helped push the vote from July 21 to October 6. The town's project tracker shows a Planning and Zoning Commission recommendation on June 9 before the item reached the council. The October 6 meeting summary lists the conditions attached to the approval:

1. A $750,000 contribution from the developer toward an elongated roundabout on Indiantown Road.
2. All delivery trucks enter the center from U.S. 1 only.
3. The movie theater gives up 76 seats.
4. The word "permanent" is removed from the conditions covering outdoor-seating covers.

Each one shows how the finished plaza is meant to work day to day. Under the truck rule, a Whole Foods and a Total Wine, two stores that take regular deliveries, would be supplied from the highway side rather than from Indiantown Road, the main route to the beach. The summary also describes a redesign meant to match the area's beachside look. The outdoor-seating condition points to more time spent outside than the current layout allows.

Cinépolis Shrinks; It Does Not Close

For many residents, the theater is what the plaza is known for, and the Post called it the business the center is "perhaps best known for." The approved plan cuts the theater's seating by 76. WPTV reported that the downsizing could come by late 2028, making it one of the last steps in the sequence.

George Richetelli has watched this stretch of U.S. 1 and Indiantown Road change since 1980. If you'd like to talk through what the Shoppes at Jupiter plan means for your part of town, The Richetelli Group is glad to share what we're seeing on the ground. Schedule a consultation whenever it suits you.