Drive East Peyton Parkway this month and you will pass two cleared sites less than a mile apart, both filed with St. Johns County within weeks of each other, both anchored by a full-size grocery store. The proposals describe two planned grocery-anchored projects in the Durbin Park area.

Meanwhile, Walmart, the retailer with the most floor space here, is expanding its existing Supercenter with additional online pickup and delivery capacity rather than opening a new store. The history of a coffee shop four local residents spent eighteen months planning is part of the story, too. Together, these developments show new retail and health-care projects in and around Durbin Park, alongside a change at a nearby Fruit Cove business.

Two Grocery Bets, One Zip Code

Regency Centers announced plans this July for The Berkeley at Durbin Park, a shopping center on East Peyton Parkway anchored by Whole Foods Market, with TJ Maxx, Firebirds Wood Fired Grill, and Shake Shack signed on as well. The company said it expects to break ground in the fourth quarter of 2026.

At almost the same time, a second grocery-anchored project moved through county review a few blocks away. Filed by Durbin Creek National LLC, a Gate Petroleum subsidiary, the site plan calls for a 30,000-square-foot grocery store built to the exact footprint of the Sprouts Farmers Market prototype, plus an attached 25,000-square-foot retail building, two more buildings totaling 31,000 square feet, and four retail pads ranging from 2,500 to 7,900 square feet. St. Johns County discussed the proposal on June 6, 2026.

The two proposals describe grocery-anchored projects a few blocks apart. The Berkeley plan names Whole Foods Market; the East Peyton Parkway plan calls for a 30,000-square-foot grocery store matching the Sprouts Farmers Market prototype. If built, the projects would add grocery options in the area.

Walmart’s Proposed Addition

Walmart's project is an addition to its existing Supercenter, not a third store. Its 195,000-square-foot Supercenter at 845 Durbin Pavilion Drive filed a permit application on February 4, 2026, to add roughly 9,000 square feet dedicated to online grocery pickup and delivery capacity. The county's Development Review Committee took it up March 4.

Unlike the two proposed grocery-anchored projects, which would add in-store options if built, Walmart's application concerns its existing Supercenter.

The Health Campus Two Exits Away

The retail buildout is not the only thing reshaping the weekly routine here. Two exits down Flagler Health Way, a 42.5-acre health and wellness campus is close to opening in full.

• UF Health Durbin Park Hospital is on track to open this fall, with just under 100 inpatient beds and a 24-hour emergency department.
• The hospital's attached medical office building, built for specialty care, is scheduled to open this summer.
• The Peyton Family YMCA, a roughly 50,000-square-foot branch named for the family behind Gate Petroleum, is expected to open on the same campus in 2026, with plans for an airnasium, indoor and outdoor aquatics, and a teen center.

For a household in RiverTown, Beachwalk, or one of the neighborhoods feeding into County Road 210, this changes two different errands at once. The nearest 24-hour emergency department will soon sit inside the same few miles as the nearest full-size YMCA, rather than requiring a drive into Jacksonville proper for either one. That is a genuinely different map of the week than the one Durbin Park residents have been working from for the past several years.

A Nearby Change in Fruit Cove

Twisted Compass Brewing Co. is at 585 State Road 13 in Fruit Cove. According to the shop's own account, four local residents spent eighteen months planning it before it opened. It served coffee from Bold Bean Coffee Roasters and pastries from Knead Bakeshop, both regional, both small. It became, for a lot of families in this part of St. Johns County, the closest thing the area had to a neighborhood living room.

The shop's own website describes the location as a Parlor Doughnuts location and says it will always be Twisted Compass at heart.

The corridor is gaining retail and health-care infrastructure. Nearby in Fruit Cove, Twisted Compass is now a Parlor Doughnuts location. These are separate changes in the wider area.

What It Means for Your Week This Fall

If you already live in this stretch of St. Johns County, the practical shift is this: your Saturday grocery run is about to split three ways instead of staying a one-stop trip, your fastest path to an emergency room or a full gym is about to get shorter, and the former coffee shop in nearby Fruit Cove is now a Parlor Doughnuts location. None of these changes require you to do anything. They are simply the new shape of the errands you already run.

Durbin Park is seeing new grocery proposals, a hospital project, and additional community amenities planned nearby. Keep an eye on East Peyton Parkway this fall. Whichever grocery anchor opens its doors first will tell you which bet the corridor's shoppers actually confirm.

If you are watching these changes because you are weighing what they mean for a move within St. Johns County, or because a growing household has you thinking about what comes next, the Dana Hancock Team knows this corridor block by block, permit by permit. Reach out when you are ready to talk about what a neighborhood like this actually looks like from the inside.