Publix plans to tear down one of its signature stores in Doral and build a bigger one.
According to site plans filed with the city, the Florida-based supermarket chain wants to demolish its 39,795-square-foot store that anchors the Doral Park shopping center at 9755 NW 41st St. Publix now owns the center, which opened in 1987, and plans to build a new 53,951-square-foot supermarket on the site.
The current Publix, and the possible rebuild, is in a busy commercial neighborhood less than two miles from Trump National Doral Miami, the president’s golf court and resort
President Donald Trump uses the resort he acquired in 2012 to host official business, including Saturday’s Shield of the Americas Summit. Trump will host heads of state or government from 12 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean at the hotel and country club to discuss hemispheric strategy on topics including migration, drug trafficking and regional security, according to the White House.
A closing date for the Doral Park Publix hasn’t been revealed.
The redevelopment plans at Doral Park suggest parking spaces in the surrounding surface lots would drop from 522 to 445 to accommodate the bigger Publix. New Publix stores sometimes include built-in garages on a first or second level for customer parking.
The Doral City Council will have a public hearing to consider the 11-acre site plan at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, at Government Center, 8401 NW 53 Ter.
The city’s zoning department didn’t respond to a request for more information on the plans. Publix spokeswoman Lindsey Willis said the company didn’t have details she could share about the future of the Doral location.
Expanding Publix 
The new Riviera Plaza Publix at 1542 S. Dixie Hwy. as it neared completion in this photo on Aug. 25, 2025. The store opened on Sept. 25. Howard Cohen hcohen@miamiherald.com
The move in Doral comes as Publix continues expanding in South Florida, often by demolishing older stores in shopping centers the Lakeland chain owns. Larger, more modern supermarkets rise in their places.
Recent examples include a new store in the Briar Bay shopping plaza. That store replaced a nearly 30-year-old Publix across the street from The Falls in the Kendall area of Southwest Miami-Dade. The former 32,000-square foot Publix reopened as a two-story with garage model at more than 53,000 square feet in February 2025. Publix owns that shopping center.
In January, the chain closed its 40-year-old Palms at Town & Country Publix on Mills Drive in Kendall to tear it down and rebuild. Publix doesn’t own that mall and hasn’t released details on what the new store will look like. Most rebuilds take between 18 months and two years.
Staffers at the Town & Country store, however, said the rebuild would not be a two-story model like the Briar Bay location or last September’s new block-long, two-story Publix that sits on land that once held the 1950s-era Riviera Plaza alongside U.S.1.
That new Publix, near the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus, didn’t replace a Publix across the street at 1401 Monza Ave. that originally opened in August 1963.
The Briar Bay Publix, 13005 SW 89th Pl. on opening weekend, Sunday, March 2, 2025. HOWARD COHEN hcohen@miamiherald.com
Publix BOGO’d with stores across the street from one another, new and old, in Pembroke Pines in 2022.
And in 2024, Publix supersized in Key Largo’s Tradewinds Mall when it discarded an old store in favor of a giant 64,000 square foot store — one of the biggest in Florida.
Other Doral-area Publix stores
If and when Publix shutters its Doral Park store for rebuilding, customers have several options nearby in Doral.
Publix Super Market at Downtown Doral, just over a mile east at 8455 NW 53rd Ter.Publix At Doral Commons, a little over a mile northwest at 10755 NW 58th St. There’s a Publix Liquors attached.Publix about two miles northwest at 7550 NW 104th Ave. 
File photo of a rainy day at the Doral Park mall that has been anchored by a Publix supermarket since 1987 at 9755 NW 41st St. Howard Cohen hcohen@miamiherald.com
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Miami Herald consumer trends reporter Howard Cohen, a 2017 Media Excellence Awards winner, has covered pop music, theater, health and fitness, obituaries, municipal government, breaking news and general assignment. He started his career in the Features department at the Miami Herald in 1991. Cohen is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Communication.
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