Waffle House is getting ready to stake out a new patch of southwest Fort Worth, filing plans for a familiar yellow and black diner on Brewer Boulevard in a fast-growing corner of the city.
The proposed restaurant would be a one-story, 1,840-square-foot building with an estimated construction cost of about $300,000, according to a state filing that lists an early 2027 construction start and a target completion in August of that year. The project surfaced in records with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation and was first noted by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Recent records from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation show similar North Texas Waffle House projects with the same 1,840-square-foot footprint and roughly $300,000 budget, which lines up with the Fort Worth plan.
Retail boom at Chisholm Trail Ranch
The Brewer Boulevard site sits inside The Shops at Chisholm Trail Ranch, a retail hub that keeps picking up new big-name neighbors. Grocer H-E-B bought acreage there in March 2023 as part of a broader Fort Worth expansion, a move detailed by The Dallas Morning News. Local pre-development filings show other national chains circling nearby outparcels, and local reporting points to a McDonald’s in pre-development and plans for a Target along McPherson Boulevard, according to Audacy.
What it means for local diners
Right now, southwest Fort Worth is not exactly overflowing with around-the-clock diners. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram noted that the closest Waffle House locations are in Benbrook, Burleson and Forest Hill. A Brewer Boulevard outpost would bring the chain much closer to newer neighborhoods and workers coming off late shifts. The company is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, according to Waffle House.
Timeline and permits
Those state-listed dates come with a big asterisk. Similar filings for other North Texas locations have shown start and finish windows that later shifted once local permitting got underway, so the early 2027 kickoff and August completion should be viewed as tentative. City permit applications and site-plan approvals will ultimately decide whether the Brewer Boulevard project stays on schedule.
National coverage counts Waffle House in the low thousands of locations across the South, according to Reuters, so the southwest Fort Worth build would represent one more incremental move in the chain’s ongoing expansion.
