What is being built at Herriman Towne Center?

The Commons at Herriman Towne Center is a mixed-use development going in between 13200 South and 13400 South, west of the Mountain View Corridor. Herriman City confirms that Target and Trader Joe’s are part of it, with Trader Joe’s expected in fall 2026 and Target expected in 2027 (Herriman City, Rumor Has It page).

Trader Joe’s has since opened, on October 9, 2026 at 4918 W 13400 South (Salt Lake Tribune, September 28, 2026). Target is still under construction.

That is the short version. The more useful thing I can give you is how to tell the confirmed projects from the ones your neighbors are talking about, because in a city growing this fast the gap between those two is where buyers get hurt.

For the anchor tenant specifically, see is Herriman getting a Target.

The city publishes a rumor page, and most buyers do not know it

Herriman City maintains a page called Rumor Has It, where it marks local rumors true or false and explains the status. For a buyer trying to work out what is real near a house, it is the single most useful free resource in the city, and almost nobody I work with has seen it.

Here is what it currently establishes, in the categories that affect a purchase:

Rumor	City’s answer
Target and Trader Joe’s at The Commons	True — Trader Joe’s fall 2026, Target 2027
An auto mall along Mountain View Corridor	True — between Midas Creek and Herriman Boulevard, first dealership under construction in 2026
Mountain View Corridor freeway	True — first phase late 2026
A UTA bus line	True — Route 126
A post office in Herriman	False — no plans
A TRAX line to Herriman	False — no confirmed timeline
Jackson Park construction	Unlikely before 2028
New school locations	Decided by Jordan School District, not the city

Source for all of the above is Herriman City’s own page. I would treat it as the baseline and then verify anything that matters to your specific address with the planning office, because a citywide page cannot tell you what is approved on the parcel behind your fence.

The two rows people are most often wrong about are the post office and TRAX. Both come up constantly at open houses as though they were coming, and the city says plainly that they are not. If someone is using either to justify a price, that is worth knowing before you write.

The auto mall is the one buyers underweight

Trader Joe’s and Target get the attention. The auto mall is the project I would actually ask about if I were buying nearby.

The city says it is working with a development partner on an auto mall along the Mountain View Corridor between Midas Creek and Herriman Boulevard, which is 12600 South, with the first dealership under construction in 2026. Car dealerships are a particular kind of neighbor: large lots, bright lighting, sustained traffic at the entrances, and a long operating day.

None of that is a reason to avoid the area. It is a reason to go stand on the street at night before you buy a house that backs toward it. Lighting is the complaint I hear most about living near large commercial lots, and it is the one that photographs worst in a listing and reads clearest in person at nine at night.

The corridor already rebuilt itself once

Something worth knowing about this stretch, because it shows up in searches and gets garbled in the retelling. The southern Utah equivalents are moving faster: what is being built at Tech Ridge and the new bridge in St. George.

In July 2025 a late-night multi-vehicle crash caused an explosion at the strip mall at 13400 South and 5100 West, badly damaging several businesses, including a Jimmy John’s, a Supercuts and a Domino’s. The Jimmy John’s reopened in early October 2026 after roughly fifteen months of rebuilding (Fox 13, October 2026).

That is a different property from The Commons, a little further east on the same road. I mention it because buyers who search this corridor find the explosion coverage and sometimes conclude something structural about the area. It was a traffic collision, not a utility or construction failure, and the businesses have been rebuilt. If you are looking at a house near that intersection, the thing to actually evaluate is the road itself — volume, speed and how the access points work — not the event.

What the construction years mean if you buy nearby

This is the part that affects your life rather than your curiosity.

A development mid-build brings dust, truck traffic, temporary lane changes and noise during working hours. The Mountain View Corridor freeway phase, the auto mall and the Target build are all live at once on the same side of the city. If you buy within a few streets of any of it, the next couple of years are construction years.

What I would weigh:

• Which direction your house faces, and what sits between it and the corridor. A row of homes between you and the road changes the experience entirely.
• Whether the lot behind you is dedicated open space or a future phase. These look identical from a backyard and are completely different futures. The plat tells you.
• Your tolerance for a moving target. Some buyers find an area filling in around them exciting. Others bought for quiet and are unhappy by month four. Both reactions are legitimate and you should know which one you are.
• The access points. New retail reroutes local traffic. A quiet street can become the shortcut.

For the parcel-level version of this homework, how to find out what will be built next to a house in Herriman walks through the general plan, the zoning map, planning commission agendas and the plat. That is the work that answers the question for your address rather than for the city.

The honest read on what this adds up to

Herriman spent years as a place where the houses arrived well before the shops. What is going in now is the commercial layer catching up. That is good for residents and it is genuinely good for resale over a long hold.

It is also exactly what people who moved here for open ground did not sign up for. I have clients in both camps and I am not going to pretend one of them is wrong. What I will say is that the direction is set: the corridor side of Herriman is going to be busier and better served, and the western and southern edges will stay quieter for longer.

Pick the side of that trade you actually want. Whether to buy near the Mountain View Corridor is the post that goes through it properly, and why everyone is moving to Herriman covers the growth picture including the parts that are inconvenient.

What to do next

Read the city’s rumor page before your next tour, then call the planning office about the two or three specific addresses you are serious about. Those two steps take an afternoon and they replace most of what you will hear secondhand.

If you are still deciding whether Herriman is the right city at all, start with the relocation guide.

And if you want a plain read on how a specific address sits relative to all of this — what is approved, what is rumored and what would actually be outside your window — get in touch and we will go look at it together.

— Kelsey Earl, Realtor, Keller Williams South Valley