Doc's Records & Vintage, the vinyl-and-vintage staple that has drawn crate-diggers to the Foundry District for years, is preparing to open a second location on the city's southwest side at 5212 S. Hulen St. in late November. Owner Jenkins Boyd is putting together a 20,000-square-foot music store, nearly doubling the vendor count found at the original shop.
Boyd said the Hulen Fashion Center location fills a gap he had noticed for a while. According to Fort Worth Report, Boyd said the southwest side lacked a sizable record store and that he had plenty of stock to fill one. The new space takes over a former Joann Fabric and Craft store, a chain that closed all of its locations in May 2025, and it sits inside a shopping center that also includes Total Wine & More and Guitar Center.
“There’s going to be twice as many vendors,” Boyd said. “There’s going to be plenty of new products.” He added that the new store will keep the same general premise as the original but differ in its actual contents, giving shoppers a reason to visit both.
A Tentative Grand Opening Date
Boyd has tentative plans to host a grand opening on Nov. 21, according to the same report. Beyond that kickoff event, he said he hasn’t yet planned any other programming for the new location. Plans do call for an area where local artists can display and sell their work, giving the store a gallery-like dimension alongside the racks of records and memorabilia.
“We’ve got a lot of space in here, so it will definitely be fun to have some art shows and get the community involved,” Boyd said. He said he expects to roll out additional events around February, once staff have had more time to settle into the new location, and that ultimately he wants the store to serve the surrounding neighborhood the way the original has served the Foundry District for years.
Word of the new storefront spread locally even before the grand opening plans firmed up. Donny Scott, a Great Scott Realty real estate agent, posted a photo of the new store's exterior; Scott said he wasn't involved in the sale of the property but was familiar with the store.
More Than Two Decades Of Doc's Records, In The Foundry District Since 2018
Doc's Records & Vintage has served Fort Worth patrons for more than 20 years, offering records, music, memorabilia, toys, antiques and clothing out of its current home in the Foundry District. The existing shop's exact street number has been reported differently across the years — one account lists it as 2628 Weisenberger St., while a separate 2018 account put the address at 2632 Weisenberger St. — but either way, the space has functioned as more than a retail stop. It has hosted a stage for local musicians and artists and held monthly community events.
The store marked its 20-year anniversary on Oct. 24 with live music and a flea market, per the store's own merchandiser website. That milestone followed a long run of expansion: according to Fort Worth Magazine, Doc's got its start on Pipeline Road in Hurst in 2006 and has occupied four stores over the years, each one bigger than the last, before the Boyds landed in the Foundry District in 2018.
That 2018 move itself represented a major upgrade. A Star-Telegram report from that year described the new Foundry District space as 9,800 square feet, a considerable jump from the 4,000-square-foot shop that came before it, complete with an antique mall built out with 38 booths. Boyd told VoyageDallas that he opened the original record store in 2006 with a ton of help from his father.
Now, with a 20,000-square-foot footprint planned for the Hulen Fashion Center, Doc's looks set to extend that pattern of growth to a new pocket of Fort Worth. Whether the Nov. 21 grand opening and the full slate of vendors, products and artist space come together exactly as planned remains to be seen once the doors actually open.
