H-E-B buys site on Preston Road in Celina
Celina is the latest North Texas community to land on popular grocer H-E-B’s shopping list.
The San Antonio-based supermarket chain has just snapped up a prime store site on Preston Road in Celina. The almost 15-acre property is at the southeast corner of Preston and the route of the new Outer Loop.
Brandon Trimble of The Retail Connection brokered the sale. The seller — a local real estate investor — retained control of the remainder of the almost 30-acre site for additional retail construction, Trimble said.
H-E-B is the latest major retailer headed to Celina, Collin County real estate broker Rex Glendenning said. Last year, big box retailer Costco purchased a site south of the H-E-B location.
“Things are finally really happening on the retail front in Celina now,” Glendenning said.
Celina is one of Dallas-Fort Worth’s fastest-growing communities, with more than 33,000 residents.
So far, all of H-E-B’s new Dallas-area stores are in Collin County. The company opened its first stores in Frisco and Plano, and has locations under construction in Allen and McKinney.
The chain plans to start construction this year on a second Frisco store, on U.S. Highway 380, and it recently broke ground in Mansfield. The grocer also has a site in Prosper.
“I think H-E-B is focused on opening their new Prosper store prior to opening this site,” Glendenning said.
H-E-B has acquired multiple locations throughout D-FW.
Source: The Dallas Morning News - Steve Brown