What's New on CR-210 in St. Johns, FL—and Why the Timing Matters
September 10, 2026
September 10, 2026
Drive County Road 210 between I-95 and U.S. 1 this month and the orange barrels are gone. What used to be a work zone that backed up during school pickup is now a finished, wide-open stretch, and the shoulder that used to disappear into construction fencing just ends in grass. St. Johns County closed out that widening project on April 30, 2026, the final piece of a job that has been chipping away at this stretch for years.
If you have lived along this corridor for a while, you have probably noticed something else too. There is plenty changing along with the road. Walk-On's and Pecan Craft Kitchen have opened, a pho restaurant has announced a location, and a hospital is taking shape near the interstate. Together, they offer a snapshot of what is happening along the corridor.
Some businesses opened along 210 during the road project, adding to the corridor's growing lineup.
Walk-On's Sports Bistreaux opened October 6, 2025, at 495 Durbin Pavilion Drive, in front of the Cinemark Durbin Park theater. The shell had been sitting there since a 2023 building permit put its construction cost at $2.1 million, and the project stalled for months before crews came back and finished it. The grand opening leaned into the neighborhood rather than just the brand: former Jaguars kicker Josh Scobee showed up representing First Tee of North Florida, and the franchise group handed out $5,000 in checks split between the St. Johns County School District's Character Counts program, Diamonds of Dreams, the county's Fire Rescue Cadet Program, and the Sheriff's Office Special Teams Association.
A few miles west, ZEN Pho and Noodles announced in January 2026 that it was taking over the former Oola Mala Hot Pot & Sushi space at 1385 St. Johns Parkway. The chain started in Gainesville in 2022 and has been adding Florida locations steadily since, and this one didn't wait on anything the county was building. It just needed an empty storefront in a growing zip code.
Out in Julington Creek, Pecan Craft Kitchen opened December 20, 2025, at 138 Florida 13, just south of the Julington Creek Bridge. The county approved a $750,000 build-out for the 120-seat restaurant in September, and the menu runs on a pecan-fired grill, with cornbread and hot honey, tamarind flatbread, and banana pudding rounding things out. The owners, Darryl Nagao and Brad Chasteen, already run more than 50 Moe's Southwest Grill locations across Florida, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. through their company Welcome to Moe's Inc., so a fast-casual build in a growing suburb was well within their comfort zone.
These three examples have different timelines, and their opening dates alone don't tell us whether the road project affected their decisions.
The bigger commitments are worth watching too, with projects at different stages of planning and construction.
UF Health's Durbin Park campus is a major example. The system has put $285 million into a 99-bed hospital with a 24-hour emergency department, part of a 42.5-acre campus that's expected to bring roughly 2,000 jobs in its first phase. The medical office building opened this summer, with the hospital itself set to follow in fall 2026.
Right next to it, Jacksonville-based Regency Centers is developing The Berkeley at Durbin Park, a grocery-anchored center that will bring a Whole Foods Market to St. Johns County along with TJ Maxx, Firebirds Wood Fired Grill, and Shake Shack. Construction is set to break ground in the fourth quarter of 2026, on land along East Peyton Parkway adjacent to the hospital campus.
The Peyton Family YMCA, a 53,000-square-foot facility, is planned as part of Durbin Park's second phase, and Life Time has been scouting the same area for a second Northeast Florida fitness club. JEA issued a service availability letter for the fitness project in March 2026, sizing it at roughly 85,000 square feet, well before any site plan becomes public.
Alongside those larger projects, a steady stream of smaller filings offers clues about what may come next, usually twelve to eighteen months out.
None of this is glamorous, and none of it is open yet. But a preapplication filed in July usually means a building permit sometime in the next year, which means an opening not long after that. If you want an early read on what's coming to your stretch of the corridor, the county's Development Review Committee agenda is a more reliable source than any social media announcement.
Once you separate what opened from what's still filed, the corridor starts to make sense as two overlapping timelines instead of one confusing rush.
The business examples above range from recent openings to announced locations.
The larger projects are at different stages, from planning to construction. Now that CR-210 is finished from I-95 to U.S. 1, there is plenty to watch along the corridor, but the road's completion alone does not tell us how quickly those projects will move forward.
If you're the kind of resident who likes knowing what's coming before the sign goes up, keep an eye on the plans above. The bigger commitments, the ones that reshape a corner rather than just fill a space, are worth watching as their plans develop.
If you're weighing what a growth corridor like this actually means for your own plans, whether that's watching values shift as anchors like Whole Foods and UF Health move in, or just wanting a local read before your next move, Traci Crawford has been tracking St. Johns County long enough to separate the signal from the noise. Schedule a Strategy Session and get a straight answer instead of a guess.
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