Publix at Promenade Plaza in Palm Beach Gardens open has an open date
PALM BEACH GARDENS — The Publix at Promenade Plaza in Palm Beach Gardens will reopen on May 8 after staying closed for more than one year, a Publix spokesperson said.
The store on Alternate State Road A1A between Burns Road and Northlake Boulevard closed in February 2024 to make way for an improved version, which will open to shoppers after a 7 a.m. ribbon-cutting that day.
The Lakeland-based grocery chain went as far as to tear down the old store, built in 1989, to make way for the new one, as it's done at other sites in Palm Beach County.
It's part of a larger pattern of Publix scrapping its aging stores for larger structures with wide aisles, updated selections and more modern features — like the indoor seating area where customers can eat, the spokesperson said.
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Modern-style Publixes also have traditional departments for grocery, dairy, frozen food, seafood, meat and fresh produce and full-service bakery and pharmacy areas.
The new Publix at Promenade Plaza will have a coffee machine for customers to purchase coffee from to sip while they shop, the spokesperson said.
However, it will not feature the supermarket chain's novel Pours bar, which serves coffee, wine and beer to shoppers. The Publix at Courtyard Shops in Wellington has a Pours bar, as does the one at the Lakeside Centre shopping plaza at Glades Road and Florida's Turnpike in suburban Boca Raton.
Several Publix stores in Palm Beach County have been included in the chain's overhaul, including at Royal Palm Beach and Okeechobee boulevards and at Wellington Trace and Greenview Shores Boulevard in Wellington.
The Publix at Promenade Plaza will be one of at least three modern-style Publixes in the Palm Beach Gardens area, joining the one now open in Alton and an Avenir store under construction, which was hit by a tornado spawned by Hurricane Milton in October 2024.
The new Publix at Promenade Plaza is 55,454 square feet, about 30% bigger than its 42,450 square-foot predecessor.
To create that space, Publix bought out one tenant on either side of the store and absorbed their square footage into the new supermarket, according to Natalie Crowley, Palm Beach Gardens director of planning and zoning.
The traffic flow through the plaza will be changed, Crowley said. The project also includes changes to parking and landscaping, and there is a public art requirement.
TRPF Promenade Plaza LLC — a subsidiary of investment firm TIAA's real estate arm — bought Promenade Plaza in April 2017 for $49.25 million, county property records show.
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Maya Washburn covers northern Palm Beach County for The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida-Network. Reach her at mwashburn@pbpost.com. Support local journalism: Subscribe today.
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