The South Congress store in South Austin will be "one of the company's most innovative stores," according to H-E-B
H-E-B will invest approximately $200 million in South Austin, Texas, with the opening of three new stores and a major remodel of an existing location. Even with the closure of two older, smaller stores and the repositioning of their staffs, the investments are still expected to bring more than 1,000 new jobs to the area.
Work on one new store is underway, while the other two are set to begin construction in 2020.
H-E-B said that the location on South Congress will be "one of the company's most innovative stores," although with a two-year construction timeline, the doors won't open until 2022. It'll include a community gathering place, a food hall with indoor and outdoor dining spaces, the grocer's first-ever beer garden, two levels of underground parking, and tree-lined sidewalks to encourage walking and biking to the store.