Manor's fast-growing stretch of U.S. 290 is about to get a new national burger player. Project filings show Portland-born Killer Burger is slated for a 2,600-square-foot space at H-E-B-anchored Manor Crossing, with a preliminary interior build-out budget of about $900,000 and a projected summer opening. Construction is scheduled to kick off in early April with a July completion target, according to state permitting records, adding another recognizable dining name to the maturing U.S. 290 retail corridor.
Project filings registered with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on March 30 list the job as "Killer Burger Manor" at 11910 U.S. Hwy. 290, Suite 124, describing a full interior finish-out for restaurant operations across 2,600 square feet with an estimated cost of $900,000. The record names MC Retail LP as the owner, lists Thomas Southard as the tenant contact, and shows an April 6 construction start with an estimated July 1 completion. Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
The future restaurant space is in Manor Crossing, a 63-acre retail development at U.S. 290 and FM 973, anchored by H-E-B and already home to national tenants such as Planet Fitness, Chick-fil-A, and T.J. Maxx. Leasing materials for the center tout heavy vehicle counts and a growing daytime population, a combo that helps explain why more national brands are planting flags along this stretch. The Retail Connection.
What To Expect And Timeline
State documents classify the Manor project as a renovation or alteration, with the work privately funded and scoped as an interior tenant finish-out only. The filing lists LJP Architects PC as the designer and Mark S. Robinson as the registered accessibility specialist, typical details for an early-stage project record. Builders are penciled in to start site work in April with a July 1 completion date on the books, though anyone who has watched a restaurant build-out before knows permitting and construction timelines can slip. Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Killer Burger's Texas Push
Killer Burger launched in Portland in 2010 and now operates more than two dozen locations across the Pacific Northwest and other states, according to the company's locations page. The chain made its Texas debut with a San Antonio opening in October 2024 and has been pursuing additional sites across the state since. Killer Burger and MySA.
Hoodline reported in January that Killer Burger had already lined up an East Village outpost in North Austin, underscoring the chain's broader Austin-area play. Local permit activity from San Antonio to North Austin and now Manor suggests the company is using state filings as an early public signal of where it is headed next. lined up an East Village outpost.
What It Means For Manor
For Manor, another national dining name could mean more jobs and foot traffic for a retail hub that developers have been pitching as a new node east of Austin. The pull of an H-E-B anchor and sizable traffic counts along U.S. 290 remain central talking points in Manor Crossing's leasing push. The Retail Connection.
The company has not yet posted an official community announcement about the Manor restaurant on its locations page, which still highlights San Antonio and other markets. Even so, state project filings are often the first public hint a new unit is on the way. If the schedule holds, residents can likely look for job listings, window signage and a soft opening later in the summer as the build-out moves from paperwork to reality.
