H-E-B has purchased more than 20 acres in southwest Fort Worth for a new grocery store, marking the company’s third location in the city as it continues pushing deeper into the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. The site sits at the northeast corner of Chisholm Trail Parkway and Oakmont Boulevard, placing the future store inside a master-planned community in a rapidly growing part of the Chisholm Trail corridor.
According to Fort Worth Report, the land falls within the 250-acre Overland community, part of the larger Edwards Ranch development already underway in that corner of the city. The San Antonio-based grocer has been on a buying spree in the area, and this purchase adds to more than a dozen parcels H-E-B already owns across Tarrant County, the outlet notes.
Construction on the new store is expected to begin in early 2027, with an opening targeted for late 2028, per preliminary company timelines reported by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The outlet reports that the southwest location will be the third H-E-B store in Fort Worth, joining the grocer’s growing footprint in a metro area it entered relatively recently but has since expanded into aggressively.
A Historic Family Land Deal
The Overland community sits on land tied to the Edwards family, whose development arm, Cassco, has shaped much of southwest Fort Worth for generations. Over the past 70 years, Cassco has turned family-owned acreage into neighborhoods and mixed-use projects including Clearfork, Riverhills, Overton Park and Tanglewood, the Star-Telegram reports, underscoring how the new H-E-B will slot into a long legacy of development on that side of the city…