Chick-fil-A is planning a new restaurant at South Zarzamora Street and Mitra Way on San Antonio's South Side, with an estimated construction price tag of $4.5 million. The proposed address is listed as 10110 S. Zarzamora St., San Antonio, TX 78224, and the project would be built from the ground up.
According to MySA, construction on the planned restaurant is expected to begin in May 2027, with the building finished by October 2027. The outlet reports the location would be the only San Antonio restaurant south of SW Military Drive within city limits. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation has filed project details tied to the chain's expansion, though the publicly available listing describes new construction of a Chick-fil-A restaurant with free-standing canopies without specifying which site it covers.
A Chain Already Deeply Rooted in San Antonio
Chick-fil-A is thriving in San Antonio, with dozens of locations already open after a decade of steady growth here, per the same MySA report. The chain's largest concentration of restaurants sits on the city's Northside, but the South Zarzamora project would push the brand's footprint further south than it has gone before within city limits.
The South Side isn't the only area getting fresh attention from the chicken chain. Chick-fil-A also has a planned location near Highway 211 and Loop 1604 on San Antonio's Far Westside, and the company is headed to New Braunfels as well, where the incoming restaurant would mark that city's third location, MySA reports.
Comparable Projects Show a Consistent Price Tag
The roughly $4.5 million estimate attached to the Zarzamora project lines up with other Chick-fil-A builds moving through the pipeline around San Antonio. A location planned at the corner of Culebra and Galm Roads on the Far Westside, at 13519 Culebra Road, is described as a newly constructed, 5,047-square-foot restaurant with a drive-thru and a $4.5 million price tag, according to MySA. That report notes work on the Culebra and Galm site is set to begin by mid-November 2026 and wrap up by mid-April 2028, with the restaurant sitting adjacent to the $16 million Galm Crossing shopping center.
A separate account from the San Antonio Business Journal similarly pegs the roughly 5,000-square-foot Culebra Road restaurant's construction finish at April 2028. Elsewhere, the San Antonio Express-News reported in February that a 2,967-square-foot Chick-fil-A near Loop 1604 and Babcock Road, close to UTSA, carried its own $4.5 million estimate and was expected to be completed by February 2027. That same report said Chick-fil-A planned to open its third New Braunfels restaurant sometime in 2026, and detailed plans for two more area locations, including one on Broadway between Alamo Heights and Pearl, with the Culebra and Galm restaurant set to join Sprouts Farmers Market as an anchor tenant in the 69,000-square-foot Galm Crossing retail hub.
How Many Locations Does That Add Up To
Just how fast the chain is multiplying around San Antonio depends on when you check the count. The Express-News reported Chick-fil-A had nearly 40 locations in the area as of February, while a more recent MySA count in September put the figure at more than 40 locations across the region, including restaurants situated inside universities, malls and other facilities.
No address, cost breakdown, or construction timeline beyond what's listed above has been confirmed for the South Zarzamora project, and MySA says it plans to provide updates as more information becomes available.
