A new Great Clips salon is headed to Sanger, with plans to open at 1505 W. Chapman Drive, Suite 200, inside the Sanger Crossing shopping center. State filings show the 1,000-square-foot buildout carries an estimated construction cost of $90,000, with work scheduled to run from October 1 to February 1, 2027 — the date the salon is expected to open its doors.
The project is the work of franchisee Bhavin Barevadia, who told WhatNow that “families deserve a convenient, affordable haircut option close to home without needing to drive out of town or plan around an appointment.” Barevadia added that Sanger is a growing town and that the project addresses a real community need. Founded in Minneapolis in 1982, Great Clips bills itself as the world's largest salon brand, offering value-priced, high-quality haircuts for men, women, and children without appointments.
The Sanger location will lean on that no-appointment model, and the salon plans to offer a $6.99 grand-opening special on any haircut for a limited time, according to the same report. Every Great Clips salon is 100 percent franchised and locally owned, and the chain now counts more than 4,400 locations across the United States and Canada. Corporate figures from Great Clips, Inc. put the brand's weekly customer count at an estimated 1.7 million, supported by a mobile check-in app that has logged more than 20 million downloads.
A Shopping Center Filling Up Fast
The new salon will share its building with a couple of other businesses racing toward their own openings. Permit records tracked by Zabalist show Suite 100 is being built out for Black Tie Liquor #5 at an estimated cost of $120,000, targeting an October completion, while Suite 300 is slated to become an infrared fitness studio, HOTWORX, with a $198,950 buildout aiming for December. All three tenants registered their commercial finish-out permits with the state during the summer.
Sanger Crossing itself sits on a 7.75-acre tract at Chapman Drive and Interstate 35, owned by Dallas-based Sanger Retail, LTD. City of Sanger Planning and Zoning Commission records show the developer replatted the land into smaller pad lots in 2025 specifically to accommodate the wave of retail, dining, and service tenants now arriving at what has become the town's main freeway interchange.
Franchise Costs Behind the Storefront
Opening a Great Clips is not a small undertaking. Great Clips franchise disclosure documents, as relayed by FranInspect, require prospective franchisees to hold a minimum net worth of $500,000 — or $1 million in high-cost markets — plus at least $100,000 in liquid assets. Total initial investment for a new salon ranges between $187,800 and $419,900, covering the $20,000 franchise fee, site improvements, equipment, and grand-opening marketing.
Franchisees also commit to ongoing payments of 6 percent of gross sales in royalties and 5 percent toward national advertising, per the same franchise documents. In exchange, each salon is granted an exclusive 0.75-mile territory where no other Great Clips location can open, giving owners like Barevadia some protection as the surrounding corridor keeps filling in with competitors and complementary businesses alike.
Why Sanger, Why Now
The salon's arrival tracks with a broader transformation underway in Sanger, a Denton County town that reached an estimated 10,238 residents by 2025 — growth of more than 15 percent since the 2020 census, according to U.S. Census Bureau data and a City of Sanger housing study relayed by WFAA. City projections cited in that same reporting put Sanger's population at 17,048 by 2040 as Dallas-Fort Worth's suburban expansion pushes north along I-35, with local officials describing the town as a future “gateway to DFW.”
That growth is showing up in the housing numbers too. Single-family residential building permits issued by the City of Sanger quadrupled from 16 in fiscal year 2022–2023 to 68 in fiscal year 2023–2024, and the city now has more than 1,000 platted residential lots within its limits, per WFAA's reporting on city data. Census figures relayed by Data USA also show Sanger residents carry a median household income of $91,075 and a median age of 32.4 — a younger, family-heavy population that value-priced retail and service brands tend to chase.
Sanger's commercial boom extends well beyond one shopping center. Development tracking from Zabalist shows the town currently has 123 registered commercial and public construction projects underway valued at a combined $516.5 million, including a $3.5 million First United Bank branch and a $1.26 million Whataburger, both also on Chapman Drive. For now, though, the most immediate change for Sanger families will be a haircut chain opening close to home — sparing them, as Barevadia put it, the drive out of town.
