{"id":104144,"date":"2025-12-29T21:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104144\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:56:22","slug":"hobby-lobby-to-open-new-storefront-at-popular-meyerland-retail-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104144\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby Lobby to open new storefront at popular Meyerland retail center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The craft store is planning to open a new location in Meyerland Plaza, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdlr.texas.gov\/TABS\/Search\/Project\/TABS2026008068\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to a filing<\/a> with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.<\/p>\n<p>About the project<\/p>\n<p>According to the filing, the store will span approximately 69,000 square feet, previously occupied by Palais Royal, and cost $3.5 million to remodel. Construction is scheduled to begin in August and is expected to be completed by March 2027. Details are subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>The backstory<\/p>\n<p>David and Barbara Green founded Hobby Lobby in 1970 after taking out a $600 loan to make picture frames, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbylobby.com\/about-us\/our-story\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">states a note<\/a> on the website. Two years later, the couple opened the first storefront in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise now has more than 1,000 stores across the United States and offers around 70,000 items, including home decor, seasonal decor, tableware, craft supplies, yarn and fabric.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The craft store is planning to open a new location in Meyerland Plaza, according to a filing with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[47121,750,1604,47116,4282,47120,47119,40015,56,58,57,47117,6865,47122,1454,28249,47118,7658,1983],"class_list":["post-104144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-art-supplies","tag-coming-soon","tag-community-impact","tag-craft-supplies","tag-crafts","tag-custom-framing","tag-fabrics","tag-hobby-lobby","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-joanns","tag-meyerland","tag-meyerland-plaza","tag-near-me","tag-new-development","tag-sewing","tag-store","tag-where-to-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}