Between July 24 and September 9, 2026, Sprouts Farmers Market opened three things at CityNorth: a flagship grocery store, a PRESS Coffee café inside its building, and a new corporate headquarters. The two biggest restaurant announcements at CityNorth this year, one of them on High Street, both carry 2027 opening targets.
What's new at CityNorth this fall is mostly a daytime list. It's groceries and coffee on 56th Street, plus High Street's Sunday market and a couple of Saturday car mornings. On the evening side, Kanoki opened in April, and the bigger additions come next year. If you know which half of the district runs on which clock, it's easy to plan the stretch from now through early December.
The 56th Street side filled in first
Sprouts made the first move. Its new flagship store at 20650 N. 56th St. opened on Friday, July 24, according to the company's announcement.
Two weeks later, PRESS Coffee opened its 20th café inside the Sprouts headquarters at 20700 N. 56th St. Its grand-opening weekend was August 8 and 9, AZ Big Media reported.
The headquarters had its formal grand opening on September 9, according to the release on PR Newswire, which calls it a 180,000-square-foot build-to-suit headquarters. In Business Magazine counts the site differently. It puts the whole project at 20555 N. 55th St. at about 186,000 square feet: roughly 145,000 square feet of corporate offices, a 25,000-square-foot flagship store, 11,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, and a three-level parking structure. The same article mentions an on-site PRESS Coffee and two more retail buildings planned for future dining and shopping.
For anyone living off Tatum, Deer Valley Drive or the Loop 101 frontage, that means a new full grocery and a new coffee stop on a corner that had neither before this summer. It also means a corporate office's weekday crowd at CityNorth.
Sprouts isn't the only name in the plan. CityNorth's official project page lists Sprouts, Republic Services, the Sunela apartments, and an AC Hotel and Element by Westin as confirmed sites in its mixed-use redevelopment. Sprouts is the one that has opened its doors to shoppers this year.
High Street's turnover runs on a longer clock
High Street is having a quieter year. One space has already changed hands, and a second has its next tenant lined up for 2027. A third restaurant is going up elsewhere in CityNorth on a similar timeline.
| Address | What's there or coming | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|
| 5415 E. High St. | Kanoki Sushi & Cocktails, in the former Pocha 54 space | Opened April 2026 |
| 5350 E. High St. | The Original Tavern, in the former Mellow Mushroom space | Planned for 2027, no exact date |
| CityNorth, north of Loop 101 and west of 56th St. | Bistecca & Bones | Under construction, first quarter 2027 target |
Kanoki is this year's High Street opening. Phoenix New Times covered its arrival as a replacement for Pocha 54, and it opened in April.
The bigger High Street news came in October, with an opening date more than a year out. AZ Big Media reported that The Original Tavern will open in 2027 at 5350 E. High St. According to What Now Phoenix, the restaurant comes from Square One Concepts and will take over the former Mellow Mushroom space with more than 8,000 square feet. Plans include a patio, an indoor-outdoor bar, a golf simulator and an LED video wall for watching games. The menu plans call for Midwest-style pizzas, smash burgers, fried chicken, grilled salmon and baby back ribs, plus prime rib dinners Friday through Sunday. Its sister restaurant is The Original Arcadia Tavern on Indian School Road. No exact opening date has been announced.
Square One, which is based in Scottsdale, is also building Bistecca & Bones, an Italian chophouse and sister concept to its Bourbon & Bones. What Now Phoenix reported in August that the first location is under construction at CityNorth, north of Loop 101 and west of 56th Street, with a first-quarter 2027 target. The concept leans on tableside service, including a Caesar salad made at the table and a flaming Bistecca Fiorentina.
Taken together, one restaurant group is putting two concepts into CityNorth on a roughly 2027 timeline. That's a bet on the evening crowd that a headquarters, a flagship store and more apartments could bring.
More neighbors are in the paperwork, not on the ground
The apartment piece is the slowest-moving part. A Rose Law Group Reporter story from August 31 describes a preliminary plan filed with the City of Phoenix in June 2026 for JPI at CityNorth, a five-story building with 397 apartments and attached parking. It's a plan filing, not a groundbreaking, so it says where the developer is headed, not when anyone moves in.
The order matters for anyone nearby. The employer and the grocery store arrived first, the restaurants are set for 2027, and the extra housing is still in early planning. The daily feel of CityNorth this winter will come mostly from what's already open plus High Street's standing calendar.
What's on High Street between now and December
High Street's own events calendar keeps the district busy during the gap. Here's what's listed from late October on, all at 5415 E. High St.:
- Every Sunday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.: the High Street Farmers Market
- Tuesday, November 3, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.: a Vitalant blood drive
- Saturday, November 7, 7:30 to 10 a.m.: Cars & Coffee, hosted by Highline Autos
- Saturday, November 14, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.: the Cigars & Cars Festival, with live music
- Saturday, December 5, 7:30 to 10 a.m.: Cars & Coffee again
The calendar shows no separate December holiday market so far, and Cars & Coffee on December 5 is its last listed date. Event listings like these change, so check the linked pages the week you plan to go.
The farmers market does the most for people who live nearby. High Street describes it as open every Sunday with local vendors selling produce, honey, artisan bread, baked goods, olive oils, sauces, fresh seafood, tamales, sausages and flowers, plus handmade jewelry and home décor. It's also listed as family-friendly and dog-friendly. Vendor applications go through Arizona Community Farmers Markets, which is useful if you make something and have been looking for a north Phoenix market.
Putting the two halves together on a weekend
Since the new businesses keep morning hours and High Street's best-known events do too, it's simple to do both in one outing.
- Sunday: walk the farmers market between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., then grab coffee at PRESS on 56th Street and pick up the rest of the week's groceries at the Sprouts flagship.
- Saturday, November 7 or December 5: Cars & Coffee runs from 7:30 to 10 a.m., early enough to still have most of the day free.
- Saturday, November 14: the Cigars & Cars Festival runs from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., the longest event on the fall calendar. It's the one date where High Street is busy from late morning into the evening.
For dinner, Kanoki is the newest table on High Street right now. The Original Tavern's patio and Bistecca & Bones' tableside Fiorentina will join it next year.
If you live near 56th Street and Loop 101 and want to talk through how the Sprouts campus and the planned JPI apartments fit your own plans, Nelson Group is glad to share what we're seeing around CityNorth. We're happy to start that conversation whenever it's useful to you.
