Ask five people on Atlantic Avenue whether Sundy Village is open and you will get five different answers. One will tell you it opened in January. Another will say it is still a construction site behind orange fencing. A third will mention Barcelona Wine Bar like it has always been there, because in the nearly seven months since it opened, it has already become someone's regular Tuesday spot.
All three are right, which is the actual story. Sundy Village is not opening. It has been opening, in pieces, since a groundbreaking that promised a summer 2024 delivery and instead delivered its first phase in September 2025. The rest of it, including the building that gives the whole seven-acre project its name, is still a year or more out. If you have been waiting for a ribbon-cutting to tell you it is time to go, you have already missed one restaurant that is worth your evening this week.
A Timeline That Kept Moving
When Pebb Capital broke ground on the seven-acre site at 22 West Atlantic Avenue, the plan called for delivery by the summer of 2024, with Bluewater Builders as general contractor and Gensler and RLC Architects handling the design. That date came and went. What actually landed, in September 2025, was Phase One: 100,000 square feet of Class A office space, 30,000 square feet of retail and dining, and 268 below-grade public parking spaces, according to Florida YIMBY's coverage of the temporary certificate of occupancy. That phase leased up fast, hitting 88 percent occupancy almost immediately.
Phase Two is a different animal entirely. It adds a 79,141-square-foot office building, a 165-space public garage that will stay open to the public after 6 p.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends, and 3,400 square feet of ground-floor retail. Todd Rosenberg, Pebb Capital's co-founder, told reporters he hopes the full project wraps by the end of 2026 or the beginning of 2027, more than two years past the original target.
The delay traces back to the site's most valuable asset and its biggest constraint: the Sundy House. Built in 1902 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1992, it is the oldest structure in Delray Beach. It once held its own restaurant, a botanical garden, and an inn. Restoring a building like that on a fixed schedule is a different exercise than pouring a slab for new office space, and Rosenberg said the goal is to bring back what the property used to be, calling it a way of bringing an incredible restaurant, food and beverage option back to the market. That restoration is why the Sundy House itself, along with the finalization of the remaining restaurant concepts, is not expected until late 2026 at the earliest.
What's Actually Open, and What's Still a Promise
Here is the part that matters if you are deciding where to eat this week rather than reading a press release.
| Spot | Status as of August 2026 | What you'll find |
|---|---|---|
| Barcelona Wine Bar | Open since January 17, 2026 | Chef Javier Narváez runs a daily-printed menu, croquetas, patatas bravas, boquerones, and a wine list of more than 400 bottles with roughly 40 by the glass |
| Double Knot | Open | Craft coffee shop by day, izakaya-style sushi and small plates by night |
| Drinking Pig BBQ | Targeting September 2026 | Oak-smoked barbecue with Caribbean and Asian influences, including jerk-spiced brisket |
| Maman | Tied to the Sundy House restoration, late 2026 into early 2027 | French bakery and café in a converted historic cottage, with items developed in collaboration with Martha Stewart |
| Delray Beach Craft Brewing | No confirmed date | Opening inside the restored Cathcart House, one of the site's three preserved historic structures |
| Sundy House and Phase Two garage | Late 2026 to early 2027 | The historic reopening plus 165 additional public parking spaces |
Barcelona has had long enough to develop its own identity separate from the "Sundy Village opening" narrative. It shows up on Yelp's list of the best new restaurants in Delray Beach, with the July 2026 update noting it alongside Double Knot as places already earning regular business, not places to watch for. That distinction is worth sitting with. Two of the six announced restaurants are already generating repeat customers. The other four are still promises with dates attached, and one of those dates depends on how quickly a 124-year-old house can be brought back without losing what makes it worth saving.
The Dining Wave Isn't Confined to One Address
Sundy Village gets the headlines because it is the biggest single project, but it is not the only place new restaurants are landing this year. On August 10, 2026, Joe & The Juice confirmed its first Palm Beach County location will open in the Delray Place shopping center at 1821 S. Federal Highway, at the corner of Linton Boulevard and Federal Highway. It is the first of what the Danish chain describes as several planned county locations, according to WhatNow's report on the announcement.
Further north, Lynora's Italian is bringing its eighth location to 630 NE Fifth Avenue. The brand traces back to 1976, when Raffaele and Maria Abbanente opened the original in Lake Worth. Their son Angelo, who now owns the company, has said the north Delray location is built for families and locals rather than the Atlantic Avenue foot traffic, with roughly 1,500 square feet of patio and another 1,500 indoors, plus the chain's famous three-dollar meatball Mondays.
None of this is happening in the shadow of Sundy Village. It is happening alongside it, on Federal Highway and on Fifth Avenue, which tells you the restaurant growth in Delray Beach right now is broader than any single development's marketing would suggest.
The One That Never Needed an Opening Date
While all of this construction and staggered leasing plays out downtown, Deck 84 has quietly been doing the same thing it has done for fifteen years. Located at 840 East Atlantic Avenue on the Intracoastal, it remains the only dock-and-dine restaurant between Delray Beach and Boca Raton, with 150 feet of open dock space. General manager Lauren Choquette marked the milestone this year, telling a local news crew the restaurant is celebrating its 15th anniversary and inviting the community to come mark it with them, as reported by WPTV. The restaurant still runs its catch-and-cook program with Deep Blue Fishing Charters, where boaters bring in their own fish and the kitchen prepares it to order.
Deck 84 is proof that not everything worth knowing about is new. It has never needed a phased opening or a temporary certificate of occupancy. It just kept showing up, which is its own kind of local knowledge worth having.
What This Means for the Next Two Weekends
If you live here, the practical question isn't when Sundy Village finishes. It's what to do with the next fourteen days.
- Parking downtown is free every Wednesday, day and night, in all city-owned garages and lots through August 26, which covers three more Wednesdays this month, according to the Downtown Delray Beach events calendar.
- The DDA's Feel Good Summer wellness series is still running, with full moon yoga, cold plunge pop-ups, and art walks folded into the same free-parking Wednesdays.
- Sounds of The Set plays Libby Wesley Plaza on August 27 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
- Party in Paradise, a Jimmy Buffett tribute night, takes over Old School Square on August 28 from 5 to 10 p.m.
Pair either of those two events with a stop at Barcelona or Double Knot beforehand, and you have already done more with Sundy Village this month than most people who are still waiting for a grand opening that already happened for half the tenants.
The Actual Takeaway
Sundy Village will eventually be the finished, cohesive destination the renderings promised, historic cottages restored, breweries poured, a public garage humming after 6 p.m. That day is still a year or more away. But treating the whole project as one future event means ignoring the two restaurants already worth your Tuesday night, and it means missing how much of Delray's growth right now is happening outside that one address entirely, from Federal Highway to Fifth Avenue.
Christian Prakas and the team at SERHANT. Palm Beaches watch this kind of neighborhood change closely, not because a restaurant opening moves a listing price by itself, but because knowing which corners of Delray Beach are actually active, and which are still under construction, is part of understanding the block a property sits on. If you are weighing what any of this growth means for a move into or within Delray Beach, schedule a private consultation and talk it through with someone who tracks the difference between a groundbreaking and a grand opening.
