The wait is almost over! A popular affordable Chinese toy retailer appears to be putting the finishing touches on its latest Central Texas location.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Miniso<\/a> is planning to open a new store within a North Austin shopping center. The company, known for its plushies, blind boxes and stationery, has built its newest Austin store in a former Factory Mattress located at\u00a09607 Research\u00a0Blvd.<\/p>\n A Miniso spokesperson told MySA the company aiming for a soft opening on April 30, with the grand opening date set for May 9. MySA recently visited the store on Sunday, March 29, which appears to be near completion.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Miniso structure and iconic red signage is already visible on the all-white building within Gateway Shopping Center.\u00a0Windows of the building are also covered with posters that say “coming soon” and “now hiring,” with a QR code linked to an Indeed website<\/a>.<\/p>\n The company is currently hiring for an assistant store manager at the new Research Boulevard store, according to the Indeed job posting.\u00a0<\/p>\n Founded in China in 2013, Miniso sells trendy and budget-friendly “Japanese-inspired” products such as stuffed animals, toys, snacks, home goods and more. The chain has over 7,000 stores worldwide and is famous for having brands in-store like Sanrio, Disney and Harry Potter.<\/p>\n Miniso has been growing in Central Texas in recent years. In late February,\u00a0Miniso welcomed its newest store in San Antonio<\/a> after previous openings in\u00a0Southpark and Ingram malls<\/a>. The chain operates six Austin-area locations in Barton Creek Square Mall, Capital Plaza, Chinatown (North Lamar), Stone Hill Town Center (Pflugerville), Wolf Ranch Town Center (Georgetown) and the Tanger Outlets in San Marcos.<\/p>\n Find it: 9607 Research Blvd., Suite 450, Austin, TX 78759<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wait is almost over! A popular affordable Chinese toy retailer appears to be putting the finishing touches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2108,821,820],"class_list":{"0":"post-227446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-mysaaustin","12":"tag-mysabusiness","13":"tag-mysastaff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227446","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=227446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}