Central Market, already the extra mature and costly sibling of H-E-B, is getting a glow-up on Broadway, with “important updates that can modernize and refresh the placement,” in accordance with a information launch. “Section one” is imminent, starting in spring of 2024, and preliminary plans for “section two” have been submitted to the town of Alamo Heights.
The present retailer has been in place since 1951, when it began as an H-E-B. It turned Central Market in 1999. Now it is 90,000 sq. toes (about one-and-a-half soccer fields), and is considered one of solely 10 Central Market shops throughout Texas. Section one contains pedestrian and driver enhancements like parking zone and loading dock modifications, new sidewalks and strolling paths, and new parking zone signage.
Section two tackles the constructing itself, together with modifications to the outside facade in addition to a “full transform” of the inside. Which means “repositioning” some departments, upgrading tools for higher vitality effectivity, and increasing cafe seating. Extra home windows will deliver pure mild in, and new supplies will change the final tone of the area, though the discharge doesn’t specify how these supplies — a mixture of wooden, steel, and brick — could be used.
Rendering courtesy of Central Market
A few of the upgrades will solely be seen to companions, together with work within the break room and different worker areas. Some will even proceed the parking zone renovations, for points prospects might not take into consideration usually, like flooding.
“For many years, on the nook of Broadway and Patterson, a particular relationship has been constructed between our retailer, this group, and our Companions,” mentioned president of shareholder relations and Central Market division Stephen Butt within the launch. “When our work is completed, the newly renovated Broadway Central Market and our pleasant Companions can be effectively geared up to proceed serving our prospects with the freshest and greatest specialty merchandise the world has to supply, for a few years to return.”
The primary section is due for completion on the finish of 2024, adopted by the beginning of section 2, which must be achieved in mid-2026.
