Drive Prosperity Farms Road on a Tuesday morning and the Village looks the way it has for a decade. Same low storefronts, same shaded turns, same slow-moving pickup at the light. That surface is misleading. In 2026 the municipal golf course, the U.S. 1 corridor, the old Twin City Mall parcel, and the base of the Nautilus 220 tower are all mid-rebuild at once. None of it is coordinated. All of it lands on residents this summer.
Here is what is actually shifting between the Fourth of July and Halloween, and what the pattern says about the Village underneath.
Nautilus 220 finally has a reason to eat downstairs
Chef David Burke has opened a waterfront steakhouse inside the Nautilus 220 residential tower on U.S. 1, his first South Florida address after building out in New York and New Jersey. The menu leans on his signature theatrics — clothesline bacon, angry lobster, a cheesecake lollipop tree — alongside prime cuts and local seafood.
For residents in the surrounding condos and single-family blocks, the practical read is simpler. North Palm Beach has waited a long time for a dinner reservation that does not require crossing the bridge into Palm Beach or driving up to Jupiter. That gap has now closed inside the Village limits, which changes the calculus for a weeknight anniversary or an out-of-town guest who arrives at PBI hungry. It also gives the Nautilus 220 building itself a different identity than "the tall thing on U.S. 1." A restaurant with a national chef anchoring the ground floor is the kind of amenity that usually shows up in Miami or on Palm Beach proper, not on this stretch of the corridor.
The bridge you are going to sit on this summer
FDOT is replacing the U.S. 1 bridge over the Earman River, and the surface work extends up and down the corridor. Since May 12, 2026, the Village has warned of intermittent lane closures on U.S. 1 between Northlake Boulevard and Anchorage Drive in both directions, tied to construction on the bridge and the road itself.
The project is more than a bridge swap. Per FDOT's project flyer, the scope includes:
- Full replacement of the U.S. 1 bridge over the Earman River
- Milling and resurfacing the roadway within the project limits
- New 4-foot and 5-foot bicycle lanes along U.S. 1 through the corridor
For residents who commute south to West Palm, that means summer patience. For anyone who has quietly waited for a safe way to bike from Anchorage Drive down to the Earman River bridge without threading traffic, the wait is nearly over. Two years from now, the Village's most-used north–south spine will look different, and the neighborhood streets that feed into it will lean harder on bicycles than they do today.
Twin City Mall, take four
The 13.15-acre parcel at the southwest corner of U.S. 1 and Northlake Boulevard has been an unfinished conversation since the late 1980s. The Twin City Mall opened there in 1971 with more than 30 stores, lost its anchors after the Gardens Mall arrived, and has been the subject of redevelopment proposals — none built — for more than thirty years. Northlake Promenade Shoppes and the Village Shoppes eventually absorbed pieces of it. The core parcel stayed unresolved.
That may finally be changing. The Village Council approved the Village Place PUD master plan by a 5–0 vote on April 10, 2025. The plan divides the site into four parcels, allows mid-rise and high-rise buildings up to 14 stories in the interior of the property to preserve water views from the perimeter, and reserves 1.08 acres for civic and open space. Litigation between the developer and the Village followed in May 2025, so the timeline is not settled. Residents who have watched three prior iterations die on the vine have every right to be skeptical. The difference this time is a full master plan, a unanimous council vote, and a live legal fight — the friction that has historically preceded actual dirt turning at this address.
The Country Club is 100, and acting like it
The North Palm Beach Country Club marked its centennial the weekend of April 30 through May 3, 2026, with a Skins Game for Charity, a pool party, a Beach Buoys concert, and a ten-minute fireworks show over the Jack Nicklaus Signature course. Mayor Lisa Interlandi and Vice Mayor Orlando Puyol welcomed guests alongside general manager Peter Ayoub and head golf professional Allan Bowman.
The centennial framing matters beyond the weekend. This is one of only two Jack Nicklaus Signature municipal courses in the country, publicly owned by the Village and open seven days a week. The 37,000-square-foot clubhouse, rebuilt after the 2018 demolition of the original, now anchors The Clubhouse restaurant, The Grill Room, and the poolside Snack Shack, all operated by Lessing's Hospitality Group. If your household has been on the fence about a Social Dining membership, this is the year the club is programming as though it wants you to try it.
Two dates worth pinning to the fridge:
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Sat, Oct 31, 2026 | 7th Annual LINKS 5K Ghost Run, Monster Mile, and Li'l Goblin Gallop | NPB Country Club, 951 US-1 |
| Fall (annual) | 19th Anchorage Aweigh Fishing Tournament and Kids Fishing Derby | Anchorage Park Marina |
The Ghost Run routes 3.1 miles across the Nicklaus course, one of the only days a year a non-golfer gets to walk it in costume.
What Anchorage Park is doing while the rest of us hide from the heat
July is Parks and Recreation Month in the Village, and the calendar at Anchorage Park and the NPB Community Center on Prosperity Farms Road is denser than the summer might suggest. A partial look at late July programming:
- Dog Days of Summer at Anchorage Park, Monday, July 27, 8:00–9:00 a.m.
- Storytime and Craft with the Village librarians at Anchorage Park, Saturday, July 25, 10:00–11:00 a.m.
- Make Your Mark on the Park community input session, Thursday, July 23, 10:00–11:00 a.m.
- Pickleball Open Gym Saturday mornings, plus Youth Volleyball, 18+ Women's 3v3 Basketball, and Adult Basketball League on weeknights at the Community Center
Library Music & Movement and Tai Chi have both been running as recurring outdoor sessions at Anchorage Park through spring. If you have children in the three-to-eight bracket, the Village's separate Crafty Pumpkins session in October is the fall equivalent worth flagging early.
What ties it together
Zoom out and the four threads rhyme. A public golf course rebuilt after a 2018 teardown. A public bridge and bike lane project pushed by FDOT. A public-facing rebuild of a private commercial parcel that has sat vacant longer than some residents have owned their homes. A private restaurant investment at the base of the tallest tower on the corridor. Each was decided on its own timeline. Together they mean the U.S. 1 spine of North Palm Beach in late 2026 looks meaningfully different from the U.S. 1 spine of 2020.
For anyone who moved here for the small-village feel, that can read as a threat. The specifics say otherwise. The centennial programming is aimed at neighbors, not tourists. The Village Place master plan puts the tallest buildings in the interior of the parcel to protect sightlines from the outside. The new bike lanes make the corridor safer for the residents already using it. The steakhouse is a walkable dinner for the condo owners already living on the block. This is a Village recalibrating for the people who already live here, not marketing itself to new ones.
Which is a useful thing to notice, both if you have lived in North Palm Beach for thirty years and if you are quietly weighing whether the second-home decision you made in 2019 still fits in 2026.
If you have been watching one of these threads more closely than the others — the Village Place approvals, the Country Club membership question, or how any of it settles on values along the water — a short conversation with Steve Rockoff will get you a more direct read than a summer of scrolling Village newsflashes. Schedule a Confidential Consultation.
