{"id":299524,"date":"2026-05-19T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/299524\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:58:08","slug":"new-details-on-53m-transformational-texas-retail-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/299524\/","title":{"rendered":"New details on $53M ‘transformational’ Texas retail plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Construction of the Shops at Mercedes<\/a>, a $52.8 million shopping center being built in the Rio Grande Valley, has advanced significantly since Mercedes city leaders<\/a> gathered at the site with Merit Construction<\/a> for a groundbreaking ceremony last July. In December, crews poured foundations at the site. And as of Monday, May 18, all four walls of the 250,000-square-foot plaza have been stood up, with crews now working on customizing the facades of individual storefronts and finishing out the interiors. The plaza\u2019s parking lot has also been paved over, with spaces set aside for future landscaping. Site prep for an additional 7 acres of space in front of the plaza \u2014 facing the freeway \u2014 is also complete.<\/p>\n

The Shops at Mercedes plaza is being built on the northeast corner of Mile 1 1\/2 East Road and the westbound Interstate 2 frontage road. The site lies directly across the street from the Rio Grande Valley Premium Outlets<\/a>, a Simon Property Group-owned outdoor shopping plaza that boasts about 140 different retailers and eateries. The sprawling outlets are a prime shopping destination for shoppers crossing the U.S.\u2013Mexico border from nearby\u00a0Reynosa and Matamoros, Mexico.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a bustling and fast-growing retail corridor located on the east side of the Mid-Valley town that boasts a population of less than 17,000 people. Nonetheless, tiny Mercedes packs a powerful punch. Of Hidalgo County\u2019s 22 municipalities, Mercedes\u2019 shopping outlets generate the sixth-highest sales tax revenues, according to Place 4 Mercedes City Commissioner Ruben J. Salda\u00f1a<\/a>. City leaders expect the Shops at Mercedes \u2014 which Mayor Oscar\u00a0Montoya once characterized as “a transformational moment for our city” \u2014 to help the city’s economic\u00a0output to continue to grow.<\/p>\n

Though construction of the Shops at Mercedes remains ongoing, a number of big-name retailers have already committed to leasing floor space at the Shops at Mercedes. That includes a Ross Dress for Less, dd\u2019s DISCOUNTS, Burlington,\u00a0Marshalls, Boot Barn and a Rack Room Shoes. And at least three other tenants have shown interest in leasing the pad sites in the as-yet-undeveloped 7.2 acres of land that lie in front of the plaza, according to schematics<\/a> released by the project developer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction of the Shops at Mercedes, a $52.8 million shopping center being built in the Rio Grande Valley,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[821,2320,820,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-299524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-mysabusiness","tag-mysasotx","tag-mysastaff","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299524","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=299524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}