You want it, you got it: Another H-E-B coming to Georgetown to anchor future retail center
H-E-B, the grocery powerhouse in Central Texas, keeps expanding as the Austin region booms.
Next up: A new H-E-B will anchor the Parmer Ranch Marketplace, a shopping center that is due to break ground in the next 60 days, said Milo Burdette, a partner and vice president of development with Barshop & Oles.
Barshop & Oles is developing the shopping center, which will be built on 31 acres at the northeast corner of Ronald Reagan Boulevard and FM 2338 (Williams Drive) in Georgetown.
Construction on the H-E-B is expected to start in September or October, Burdette said. The store's targeted opening date is late summer of 2025, he said.
Three years ago, Barshop & Oles built a location for H-E-B at Ronald Reagan Boulevard and Texas 29 in the Bar W Marketplace in Leander. H-E-B's Bar W location is 10 miles south of the new store planned for Georgetown, Burdette said.
The Leander store "is doing wonderfully," Burdette said. So in looking ahead for a future site, the next major intersection was Ronald Reagan and FM 2338, he said.
"There's so much growth up there," Burdette said. "We knew there was demand for grocery and other retail, and we found the next best site."
The Georgetown area is home to two other H-E-B stores, one of which opened in summer 2023 at Wolf Lakes Village. The other is at 4500 Williams Drive.
San Antonio-based H-E-B has about 50 stores in the Austin area.
A rendering of the planned Georgetown store is not yet available, Burdette said. H-E-B's press office did not reply to an email Monday seeking additional details about the store, how many people it is expected to employ and the grocery chain's current headcount in the Austin region and across Texas.
Parmer Ranch Marketplace will be located in a fast-growing part of the region that, along with Georgetown, includes Cedar Park and Leander, which are among the fastest growing cities of their size in the country.
Burdette said the future Georgetown H-E-B will be a one-story store with 110,000 square feet of space.
Along with H-E-B, Parmer Ranch Marketplace will have 40,000 square feet of retail space, plus five pad sites, he said.
Burdette said there are no other tenants besides H-E-B to announce at this time, but that talks are ongoing. "It's early on in the process," he said.
He said financing is being arranged, but could not disclose the amount, or the lender, at this point.
At Bar W Marketplace, tenants alongside H-E-B include an Ascension Seton clinic, Casa Garcia, Torchy's Taco and a Tomlinson's pet food and supplies store. Pad site tenants include a Whataburger, Wells Fargo, Chili's, McDonald's and JP Morgan Chase.
H-E-B's 121,000-square-foot Wolf Lakes Village store is located at 1010 W. University Ave. That location replaced a 67,000-square-foot store at 1100 South Interstate 35 that opened more than 30 years ago.
The H-E-B Fresh Bites at Texas 29 and Ronald Reagan Boulevard serves up fresh food, a True Texas taco station and sushi. Fresh Bites is a stand-alone store near the gas pumps and adjacent to the 103,000-square-foot Leander H-E-B.