H-E-B said Tuesday that it would begin construction on a McKinney store later this year, the third location it has announced so far as part of its expansion into Dallas-Fort Worth.
The San Antonio-based grocer said the store on the northeast corner of Custer Road and Eldorado Parkway would open in spring 2023.
Most of the 26.3-acre parcel, which H-E-B has owned since 2014, faces Eldorado. The property is next to the Methodist McKinney Medical Campus.
The location is just over the city limits from Frisco and is on the opposite corner of a Kroger Marketplace on Custer. That 123,000-square-foot store was Kroger’s first Marketplace in the market when it opened in 2010 with general merchandise including home décor, kitchen and bath and baby items under the same roof with a beefed-up supermarket.
H-E-B has a similar one-stop shopping concept store to compete with Walmart Supercenters and Target. The McKinney parcel is bigger than the other two it has announced so far, but H-E-B hasn’t disclosed details about the McKinney store.
Last week, H-E-B broke ground on two stores it plans to open in fall 2022, in Frisco on the northeast corner of Legacy Drive and Main Street and in Plano on the southwest corner of Preston Road and Spring Creek Parkway.
The Frisco and Plano parcels are each about 20 acres. H-E-B has owned the Frisco property since 2016 and the Plano property since 2012.
For people wondering when H-E-B will get to their neighborhoods, the 116-year-old grocer said it’s “committed to the D-FW area for the long term and hopes to serve even more of the Metroplex in the future.”
Juan-Carlos Rück, H-E-B executive vice president over the North Texas region, said at the Plano groundbreaking last week that “H-E-B doesn’t build cookie-cutter stores.” The company has several shapes and sizes of its namesake stores depending on the size of lot available and the neighborhood.
To squeeze into an area where large acreage isn’t available, H-E-B and other grocers have built stores with parking underneath. Kroger, Tom Thumb and Whole Foods Market have parking underneath their stores in Uptown Dallas.
H-E-B, which has been operating its Central Market stores in Dallas-Fort Worth since 2001, has two other concepts it said it plans to bring to North Texas: Mi Tienda and Joe V’s Smart Shop.
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