Dripping Springs gets an HEB
May 11th, 2009 Categories: Dripping Springs Area News
Hello Readers,
Here is a great article I ran across in the Austin Business Journal that addresses the growth in Dripping Springs particularly the new HEB coming to town…
Home Depot has been in Dripping Springs for more than a year and now a second major retailer, HEB, will join the small-town club.
A development district long planned, but only partly built out, will finally see one of its largest components move forward soon.
In 2006, the city of Dripping Springs, about 25 miles southwest of Austin, approved a plan for a 55-acre shopping center that planned to include retailers H.E. Butt Grocery Co. and The Home Depot. The center is near the intersection of RR 12 and U.S. 290, close to the center of Dripping Springs.
While the Home Depot and smaller pad sites progressed soon after the plan was announced, HEB said at the time it would wait to build until the city put its first waste-water infrastructure in place.
With that system now operating and Home Depot’s doors open, the grocer is taking steps to bring the city its first large grocery store. The City Council voted in late March to approve HEB’s site development permit. HEB still needs a building permit and approval from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality before it breaks ground in May as it plans, said Jon Thompson, development coordinator for the city of Dripping Springs.
The company plans to have its 65,000-square-foot store open by Thanksgiving, Thompson said. The Dripping Springs store will also have a 9,600-square-foot retail space to lease to others and a fueling station, with an additional 20,000 square feet set aside for future expansion, he said. HEB executives couldn’t be reached for comment.
Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. is doing the store’s civil engineeringwork, Alamo Architects Inc. is the project’s architect, and Joeris General Contractors is the contractor.
The arrival of HEB in a smaller market such as Dripping Springs is a boom because it will increase local sales tax income while giving existing retail a boost, said Eric DeJernett, a senior vice president with CB Richard Ellis’ Austin office.
And in the long run, DeJernett said, San Antonio-based HEB could act as an anchor for a growing commercial district in Dripping Springs that wouldn’t be as viable without the grocer’s presence.
The closest large-scale grocery store is about 20 minutes away, which draws residents and their money to shop outside Dripping Springs, Thompson said.
“We look at it as being another component of Dripping Springs becoming its own community,” he said. “Right now, folks have to drive to Austin, they shop at Target, HEB, and eat out there. … By having HEB here, it’s one more part of getting people to shop locally.”
With the new waste-water infrastructure that replaced some of the city’s older septic systems, commercial growth is creeping into Dripping Springs. A McDonald’s recently opened, a Walgreens is planned and several local shops have expanded.
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Could you please let me know who the General Contractor is there that is in charge of building the HEB. I work for River City Rolloffs we can provide roll off boxes for them. My friend there in Dripping Springs says that there is no Rollo off boxes on site. Please let me know.
Thank you so much,
Bridget Bohm
River City Rolloffs, Inc
512-832-83200
Comment by Bridget Bohm — December 3, 2009 #