With construction underway of its East Arlington store, Harris Teeter also is approved to put up signage.
The city issued permits May 14 for Prime Sign Installation LLC of Jacksonville to put up eight signs at a combined project cost of $10,005. Plans show Casco Signs Inc. of Concord, North Carolina, also is involved.
Matthews, North Carolina-based Harris Teeter is building a store at 11901 Atlantic Blvd. at northwest Atlantic and Kernan boulevards. It will be the grocer’s first new Duval County grocery store since 2004.
Harris Teeter expects to open the store in spring 2027.
Harris Teeter intends to put up signs for its name and logo as well as “Your Neighborhood Market,” “The Flower Shop,” “Starbucks” and its pharmacy and drive-thru. The store will have a Starbucks coffee shop within.
Harris Teeter operates one Florida store in Fernandina Beach in Nassau County.
Harris Teeter previously operated a store in Mandarin that closed in 2004 and a Ponte Vedra Beach store that closed in 2006.
The Kroger Co. bought Harris Teeter in 2014.
In Atlantic North, Harris Teeter is under development between Academy Sports + Outdoors and LA Fitness. Harris Teeter’s grocery and liquor stores, along with a smaller retail building for other tenants, will connect those two anchors.
It also is working toward a fueling center across Atlantic Boulevard.
Jacksonville-based Sleiman Enterprises is the developer of Atlantic North and the fueling center.
Harris Teeter also has been identified for, but has not confirmed, at least two sites in St. Johns County.
Plans have been filed in St. Johns County for new supermarkets that were unnamed but match the description of possible Harris Teeter stores at Veterans Parkway and County Road 210 West and at the SilverLeaf community.
Cincinnati-based Kroger announced in November 2025 that it would open five Harris Teeter stores in new markets, including Atlantic North.
Harris Teeter ceremonially broke ground April 24 on the Atlantic North store.