Big changes are brewing at one of Bedford’s busiest crossroads. A new grocery store, a cake shop and more than 100 townhomes are headed to the corner of Airport Freeway and North Industrial Boulevard, in a project city leaders hope will give the city’s eastern gateway a serious glow-up.
The development, called the Market at Gateway, pairs a 23,443-square-foot Sprouts Farmers Market with two smaller retail buildings, a standalone Chipotle drive-thru and a 106-unit townhome neighborhood branded as Gateway Village. City officials and developers say the goal is to reshape the entrance into Bedford and add badly needed shopping and housing along this stretch of SH 183, which has seen relatively little fresh investment in recent years.
According to a City of Bedford news release, construction crews have already finished the exterior walls on all three commercial buildings and are now working inside the future Sprouts. The city estimates the grocery store will open in November 2026. The site plan calls for two 10,500-square-foot retail and restaurant buildings on either side of the Sprouts anchor and roughly 18,000 square feet of open plaza space. City officials say leasing momentum is picking up, with two additional tenants already signed and more announcements on the way.
Gateway Village homes
The residential piece of the project, Gateway Village, will bring 106 townhomes built by David Weekley Homes. Each unit is designed to face a street or greenspace, with a trail system linking the neighborhood directly to the commercial plaza, as reported by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The paper notes that crews are finishing out sidewalks and streets at the townhome site, and David Weekley is expected to start vertical home construction soon. When completed, the homes are intended to create an active frontage along North Industrial, rather than turning their backs to the freeway.
Retail lineup and site work
Alongside Sprouts, the Market at Gateway will feature a free-standing Chipotle with a drive-thru and a Nothing Bundt Cakes bakery, per the city’s Campus West project page. Utility crews from Oncor and AT&T are on site installing the infrastructure needed to power and connect the development, and work on the Chipotle outparcel is already underway. The project layout tucks the grocery store toward the rear of the property, with outparcels lining North Industrial for quick in-and-out dining and plaza-facing storefronts.
Timeline and next steps
State permit filings and local records indicate that buildings for the Market at Gateway have been permitted and that site work is ongoing, and the city expects Sprouts to open this November, with other commercial tenants filling in afterward. Local reporting provides additional detail on the construction timeline and phasing. Per reporting by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Bedford bought the Campus West tract from Cross City Church in 2021 as part of a broader effort to spark reinvestment along the Airport Freeway corridor. For those tracking every permit and filing, state project records list the retail buildings that match the approved site plan.
