A month after issuing a permit for Harris Teeter to clear its site in East Arlington, the city issued one for the grocery company to build the store at a project cost of $3 million.
Hawkins Construction Inc. of Tarpon Springs is the contractor for the project at 11901 Atlantic Blvd. in the Atlantic North shopping center at northwest Kernan and Atlantic boulevards.
It will be Harris Teeter’s first new store in Jacksonville since two closed in 2004 and 2006 before The Kroger Co. bought the chain in 2014. The company operates one Florida store in Fernandina Beach.
The city issued a permit Feb. 12 for Hawkins Construction to clear almost 1.5 acres at a project cost of $950,000. The construction permit was issued March 13 for a 61,204-square-foot grocery store. An adjacent 3,200-square-foot liquor store remains in permit review.
Hawkins plans to build the supermarket and liquor store between LA Fitness and Academy Sports + Outdoors.
Harris Teeter will lease the space from landlord Sleiman Enterprises, which developed Atlantic North. Sleiman is based in Jacksonville.
There also will be a 6,000-square-foot retail space added between the liquor store and LA Fitness. That likely will be leased to other tenants. The new stores are called Unit 400 at Atlantic North.
Harris Teeter announced Nov. 10, 2025, that it would open in Atlantic North.
The next day, it filed permit applications with the city to build a supermarket at an estimated cost of $3 million and a liquor store at an estimated $1 million.
Harris Teeter, based in Matthews, North Carolina, said in November it expected to start construction in spring 2026 and will hire 100 to 200 employees. An opening date has not been announced.