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Texas grocer H-E-B is showing designs on Southern Dallas beyond Bishop Arts.
The San Antonio-based company, which also owns Central Market, has purchased a vacant grocery store on West Wheatland Road, the Dallas Morning News reports.
It’s a former Albertsons store, at the U.S. Highway 67 service road, behind this chicken restaurant that used to be a Pancho’s.
The 58,940-square-foot building first opened in 1985, and the Albertsons closed in 2004, the newspaper reports.
Don’t get too excited for a Duncanville Central Market or H-E-B any time soon, though.
A spokeswoman for the grocer told reporter Maria Halkias the purchase is part of the company’s land portfolio for long-term growth.
“We recently purchased property in the southern sector of Dallas County in anticipation of future growth. No construction date has been set,” Mabrie Jackson told her.
Besides H-E-B and Central Market, the company also operates two other grocery chains, Mi Tienda and Joe V’s Smart Shop, and is also looking to expand those brands in the Dallas market in the future, the newspaper reported.
The first H-E-B stores in North Texas are expected to open near the end of this year in Plano and Frisco.
WHEN will H-E-B move forward with plans to build a Central Market on the land it bought in Bishop Arts?
H-E-B is the largest privately held company in Texas, so the company will reveal plans whenever it’s ready. But check this out: We once went out on a limb to predict it.
