Jupiter CRA adds $1.5 million Indiantown Road roundabout to its capital plan

By Jupiter Tide Staff

JUPITER — Jupiter's Community Redevelopment Agency voted unanimously Thursday night to add a roughly $1.5 million elongated roundabout on East Indiantown Road to its capital plan and to approve a $90,400 design contract for the work.

The CRA board — the five Town Council members sitting as the redevelopment agency — met for about three minutes starting at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Town Hall, 210 Military Trail, according to the town's meeting video. Chair Jim Kuretski, Vice Chair Phyllis Choy and Commissioners Ron Delaney, Dan Guisinger and Malise Sundstrom were present. The meeting adjourned at 6:33 p.m.

Consent items 2 and 4 passed first, after Guisinger pulled item 3 for questions. On a unanimous voice vote, the board approved:

Item 3 — authorization to amend the CRA Community Investment Program to include the proposed East Indiantown Road Elongated Roundabout — then passed on a separate unanimous voice vote.

Guisinger pulled the CIP item to ask whether the mid-block crossing on the roundabout would get flashing lights. Staff said flashing lights are part of the design covered by the work order the board had just approved. Guisinger said that was his only question, and the board then voted to approve the CIP amendment.

Town staff have put the roundabout cost at about $1.5 million. The owner of The Shoppes at Jupiter — the plaza at Indiantown Road and U.S. 1 where Whole Foods and Total Wine are planned — agreed to pay $750,000 toward design and construction as part of its October site plan approval. The CRA would cover the rest, according to the Nov. 5 CRA staff reports.

The town's traffic engineer designed the elongated roundabout to handle turns into and out of the plazas on that stretch of Indiantown Road, add a mid-block crossing, and improve bike and pedestrian access. Staff have said the town will try to finish construction in the second quarter of 2028, before the new stores open; a construction contract would come back to the board later.

Related: Preview: Indiantown Road roundabout at The Shoppes at Jupiter

Town Council met right after the CRA at 7 p.m. Its official synopsis (CivicClerk file 2154, posted Friday morning) records unanimous approval of the Oct. 20 minutes and the consent agenda. The posted agenda's public-hearing and public-business items — Ordinance 42-26 (parking-code second reading), Jupiter Commerce Park resurfacing for $515,396, a JFRD staff vehicle purchase, a Cypress Drive matching grant, a Sawfish Bay stormwater grant of up to $125,000, and a FY2026 budget amendment — appear on the synopsis without separate recorded votes; the town's video index jumps from consent to liaison reports. None of those items are major development projects. Jupiter Tide is not writing a separate Council results story from this meeting.

Design work under the Culpepper & Terpening order can move ahead. Construction bidding and a construction contract would return to the CRA later. Jupiter Tide will watch for those agendas on the town meeting portal.

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