H-E-B has applied for an urban forestry permit to grade a plot it already owns at 5501 Crescent Hill Lane, tucked inside the Chisholm Trail Ranch development in southern Fort Worth. The filing signals a future supermarket for the fast-growing corridor, though the company has not set a timeframe for when construction might actually begin.
Mabrie Jackson told The Dallas Morning News that the work described in the filing amounts to "simple grading for a future store." The property falls within Chisholm Trail Ranch, a roughly 600-acre master-planned community mixing housing and retail in the city's southern reaches, according to the same report.
Land Banked Since 2023, With a White Castle Moving In Next Door
Land appraisal records show H-E-B acquired roughly 15 acres at The Shops at Chisholm Trail Ranch back in March 2023, according to KERA News. That purchase included a nearly 2-acre tract valued at $1.2 million and a 1.2-acre parcel valued at $792,870 off McPherson Boulevard. The Crescent Hill Lane site now sits next to a planned 2,764-square-foot White Castle, which the outlet reports will be the fast-food chain's second restaurant in Texas.
H-E-B's only full-size store operating in Fort Worth so far sits across town: a 125,000-square-foot supermarket at 3451 Heritage Trace Parkway in the Alliance area, which opened in April 2024 as the company's debut flagship inside city limits, per CultureMap Fort Worth. That location briefly closed in July after an electrical fire before reopening two days later, as Hoodline previously reported on the multi-alarm blaze.
Second Fort Worth Store Rising in Walsh Ranch
The paper also reported that H-E-B had another Fort Worth property rezoned, tied to a second full-size store already moving forward elsewhere in the city. In July 2025, the company filed state licensing paperwork for an $18 million, 127,754-square-foot supermarket inside the 7,500-acre Walsh Ranch master-planned community near the Aledo border, according to KERA News, which reported the development is expected to include up to 15,000 homes at full buildout. Meanwhile, H-E-B opened a store in Irving in June 2026 and has also added sites in Murphy and Euless, part of a broader North Texas push The Dallas Morning News has tracked.
By February 2026, H-E-B had grown to 11 full-format supermarkets across North Texas, alongside six Central Market gourmet stores and three discount Joe V's Smart Shop locations, according to H-E-B Newsroom. Statewide, the company had more than 45 active or planned grocery construction projects underway as of mid-2025, representing over 7 million square feet of new store space, per ConstructionWire.
A Familiar Playbook Across North Texas
The Crescent Hill Lane filing fits a pattern Hoodline has tracked across the region: H-E-B frequently buys more land than a single store needs, then leases or sells the extra pad sites to companion tenants. Hoodline's recent coverage says that the company has quietly picked up far north Fort Worth acreage in Bonds Ranch, 91 acres on Terrell's edge as per Hoodline, and more than 600 acres in Valley View for a regional distribution campus along Interstate 35, according to Hoodline.
Why Southwest Fort Worth, Why Now
Commercial development along the Chisholm Trail Parkway corridor has expanded steadily since the toll road opened in 2014, cutting travel times between downtown Fort Worth and southern Tarrant and Johnson counties, per HousingWire. That rooftop growth includes the 284-unit Trailhead at Chisholm Trail Ranch apartment complex, completed in 2025, according to PR Newswire.
Standard municipal projections for a new full-format H-E-B in the Metroplex point to roughly 800 local jobs and up to $24 million in local tax revenue over five years, Hoodline has previously reported. In Fort Worth, as elsewhere, H-E-B will be competing directly with national chains such as Kroger and Walmart, the Dallas Morning News noted — though for now, the only work underway at Crescent Hill Lane is dirt grading.
