The Nexus at Regency, formerly Regency Square Mall, is identified for the 14th Dutch Bros Coffee kiosk in Northeast Florida.
Dutch Bros Coffee, already with 13 identified sites in the area, has another in review at the mall property at 9501 Arlington Expressway in the Regency area of Arlington.
City utility JEA is reviewing a service availability request filed Oct. 24 for a 986-square-foot Dutch Bros Coffee with a dual-drive-thru at southwest Arlington Expressway and Monument Road.
The 2.24-acre site appears to be Outparcel 6 next to the existing Firestone auto center, which is on the 1.23-acre corner Outparcel 7.
A JEA application means a project is in consideration but is not certain.
Z Development Services of Orlando is the applicant. The two drive-thru lanes merge into one at the window.
Blackwater Development of Lake City bought and is redeveloping the regional mall, including creating at least seven outparcels wrapping around the southeast corner of the property at Atlantic Boulevard and Monument Road.
Blackwater said previously that outparcels will be available for retail, bank and other uses.
Two more users have surfaced.
JEA issued a service availability determination letter April 30, 2025, for a 2,786-square-foot Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers fast-food restaurant on the 1.34-acre Outparcel 1. It would have a double drive-thru and an outdoor patio.
The utility issued a determination letter Dec. 26, 2024, for a proposed 5,200-square-foot convenience store and gas station on a 1.42-acre site that appears to be Outparcel 5. It is called “CK Atlantic Blvd & Monument Rd,” hinting that it could be a Circle K.
The gas station site plan shows it along another proposed access road off of Atlantic Boulevard.
Blackwater redeveloping Regency Square
Development and EnVision Design + Engineering LLC submitted civil engineering plans to the city Sept. 24 that provide a clearer look at what might be planned at the 58-year-old mall.
In addition to the seven outparcels of 1.1 to 2.25 acres, civil engineering plans show a good portion of the East Mall to be demolished.
Blackwater said the area is designed “to set the tone for the broader 77-acre project” at northwest Arlington Expressway/Atlantic Boulevard and Monument Road.
Blackwater bought the bulk of the mall, while Impact Church, the Dillard’s Clearance Center and the closed Sears are separately owned and are not part of the redevelopment plans.
Civil engineering plans show the closed JCPenney store would remain as a freestanding building at the east end of the mall as the rest of the East Mall from Impact Church to the JCPenney store would be demolished.
The closed West Mall from Impact Church to Dillard’s and Sears remains.
A roundabout would be built at the front entrance into the property.
There are parking lot, landscaping, pavement, driveway, sidewalk, curbing and other improvements.
Dutch Bros in Northeast Florida
The Oregon-based Dutch Bros Coffee freestanding coffee kiosk chain has been expanding into Florida.
The DutchBros.com site shows four locations are open in Northeast Florida.
The first area Dutch Bros opened in August 2024 at 50 McCoy Way in St. Augustine, about a half-mile north of a Publix at the Shoppes at Palencia Commons.
Three have since opened at 5733 Roosevelt Blvd. near Winn-Dixie in West Jacksonville; at 7720 Argyle Forest Blvd. in Southwest Jacksonville; and at 10913 Baymeadows Road in the Winn-Dixie-anchored Point Meadows center west of I-295.
In addition to Regency, nine more Dutch Bros Coffee sites have been identified in East Arlington at southwest Monument and McCormick roads; Harbour Village at northwest Atlantic Boulevard and San Pablo Road; in Flagler Center at Flagler Center Boulevard and Old St. Augustine Road; at northeast San Jose Boulevard and Loretto Road in Mandarin; at southeast Normandy Boulevard and Fouraker Road; at southeast Beach Boulevard and Spring Glen Road in the Love Grove/Englewood area; and in St. Johns County at the Shops at Race Track Rd, in Elevation Pointe and at Florida 16 and Green Acres Road east of Interstate 95.
Plans typically show there is no indoor or outdoor seating and there is a small parking area to serve one walk-up service window.
Besides specialty coffee, the company sells its Dutch Bros Rebel energy drink and Nitro Cold Brew coffee.
It offers teas, lemonades, smoothies and its signature Dutch sodas.
Dutch Bros has a limited menu of pastries, granola bars and muffin tops with no cooking on-site.
In 2023, Grants Pass, Oregon-based Dutch Bros announced its intentions to enter Northeast Florida. The name is pronounced “Bros” and not as “brothers.”
Dutch Bros started in 1992 and it became a public company in 2021.
It had 1,043 locations in 19 states as of June 30, 2025.