Is there a Trader Joe's in Herriman, Utah?

Yes. Herriman’s Trader Joe’s opened on October 9, 2026 at 4918 W 13400 South, in The Commons at Herriman Towne Center (Salt Lake Tribune, September 28, 2026). Herriman City announced the store in October 2025 and coverage at the time described it as the first Trader Joe’s on Salt Lake County’s west side (KUTV, October 2025).

If you are a buyer, the interesting part is not the store. It is what it tells you about how much of your week you will spend driving.

The same development has more coming. Is Herriman getting a Target covers the anchor still under construction there.

Two more have followed since. West Jordan opened on October 23, 2026 at 5561 W 7800 South, and a South Jordan location has been announced. Is there a Trader Joe’s in West Jordan covers that store, and what three openings in a month actually say about the west side.

Where it is, and which parts of Herriman it actually serves

The Commons at Herriman Towne Center sits west of the Mountain View Corridor, between 13200 South and 13400 South. Herriman City describes it as a new mixed-use development, with Target also under construction there and expected in 2027 (Herriman City, Rumor Has It page).

For a buyer, the useful question is not “is it in Herriman” but “is it on my way.” Herriman is physically spread out, and the city’s north end, its Rosecrest side and its western edge do not relate to 13400 South the same way. A store that is a short detour from one subdivision is a deliberate trip from another.

So check it against the specific house, not the city. The honest test is the one I give every relocating client: drive from the driveway of the house you are considering to the grocery store you would actually use, at the hour you would actually go, which for most households is a weekday evening rather than a Saturday morning.

Why this is a bigger deal than a grocery store

The most common objection I hear about Herriman is not price and it is not schools. It is some version of “is it too far from everything.” That question has had an uncomfortable answer for years, and is Herriman too far from everything is where I have given the straight version of it.

What has been changing is the retail layer. For most of Herriman’s growth, housing arrived first and commercial arrived later, which is normal for a fast-growing edge city and genuinely inconvenient for the people who got there first. Residents drove east for anything beyond the basics.

A single store does not reverse that. But a national grocer choosing this corner, with a Target under construction beside it, is a reasonable signal that the commercial layer is catching up to the housing. That is the thing worth knowing if you are buying a house you intend to be in for a decade: you are not only buying the Herriman that exists, you are buying the Herriman that is being built around it.

I would still rather you underwrite the city as it is today. The renderings are not a lease and a construction fence is not a store. But the direction of travel here is not ambiguous.

The honest caveat: it is not a full grocery store

This trips people up, so let me say it plainly. Trader Joe’s is a specialty grocer with a limited product range and its own private-label lines. It is not a replacement for a full-service supermarket, and most households that shop there also shop somewhere else.

So if you are evaluating a house on grocery access, the question is whether you have reasonable access to a full supermarket as well, not whether you have Trader Joe’s. For a lot of Herriman, you do. For the newer western and southern edges, it is worth driving before you decide.

The households I see get genuine daily value out of this are the ones who were already Trader Joe’s shoppers somewhere else and were driving a long way for it. For everyone else it is a pleasant addition rather than a change in routine.

What actually changes about errand friction

Errand friction is the thing nobody evaluates on a tour and everybody complains about in year one. Here is how I would think about it.

What you are checking	How to check it honestly
Grocery access	Drive from the house to a full supermarket on a weekday evening
Specialty and top-up trips	Note whether The Commons is on a route you already drive
Everything else	Try to run three real errands in one loop from the house
Weekend volume	Visit the same corner on a Saturday, when a new store is busiest
What is still missing	Walk the development and look at what is leased and what is fenced

That last row matters right now. A development mid-build looks different in six months, and the stores that are open today are not the final list.

Who should care, and who should not

Care if: you are deciding between Herriman and a city further east partly on convenience, you are buying near 13400 South, or errand driving is one of the things that wore you down where you live now.

Do not care if: you work from home and shop once a week, you are buying for the trails and the space and accepted the drive going in, or you are looking at the far northern or western edges of the city where this is not a nearby store.

And one group I would actively caution. I am Kelsey Earl, a Realtor with Keller Williams South Valley, and what I actually see go wrong here is buyers pricing in a planned development as though it were finished, which is how people overpay. The right version is to buy the house on today’s terms and treat the rest as upside. If a plan is part of why you are paying what you are paying, get the claim in writing rather than as a comment at an open house. How to find out what will be built next to a house in Herriman is the process for checking what is actually approved near a specific address, and it is a free afternoon that prevents an expensive assumption.

What this does not tell you about Herriman

Retail is one layer. It does not change the commute, it does not change the schools, and it does not change what the western edge of the valley is like in a windy March. Those are the things that determine whether you are happy here, and they are the things I would spend your tour on.

It also does not make Herriman a place you can live without a car. The valley is not built that way and this corner is not either. If being able to walk to daily needs is high on your list, that is a conversation to have about specific addresses rather than about the city.

If you are weighing Herriman against its neighbors on overall livability rather than on shopping, whether Herriman is a good place to live is the broader read, and it is honest about the tradeoffs that a new grocery store does not touch.

What to do next

Pick two or three candidate neighborhoods, then do a weekday evening errand loop from each one. That single exercise tells you more about living here than any amount of reading about what is opening.

If you are relocating and have not narrowed the city yet, start with the relocation guide before you shop houses.

And when you have a short list of addresses and want a plain read on which ones actually sit convenient to the things you use, get in touch and we will drive them.