{"id":373723,"date":"2026-07-15T07:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373723\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:19:15","slug":"h-e-b-anchored-mixed-use-project-breaks-ground-north-of-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373723\/","title":{"rendered":"H-E-B-anchored mixed-use project breaks ground north of Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Houston-area developer is building a new 400,000-square-foot mixed-use project that will include New Caney\u2019s first H-E-B grocery store and hundreds of apartments.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Signorelli Company, a developer based in The Woodlands, said the new\u00a0H-E-B will open in fall 2027 within Valley Ranch, a 1,400-acre master-planned community located 30 miles northeast of downtown Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Construction on the 55-acre mixed-use project, known as Commerce District, will begin later this month, the developer said. Roads and utility infrastructure are already in place for the \u00a0development near the intersection of the Grand Parkway and U.S. 59.<\/p>\n<p>The 120,000-square-foot H-E-B will anchor its first phase of Commerce District. The store will feature a covered pickup area for curbside grocery orders, a gas station and a car wash, the developer said. The Texas grocer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The East Montgomery County Improvement District posted news of the store <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/heb-new-caney-valley-ranch-22326500.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Facebook<\/a> late last month.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the grocery store, the first phase of the project will also include another 19,500 square feet of retail space,\u00a0Signorelli said.<\/p>\n<p>The next phase is expected to include 600 apartment units, as well as additional retail, restaurants and office space, the developer said.\u00a0Signorelli has not yet set a timeline for this phase, said Jhanae Kelley, a Signorelli spokesperson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commerce District is the latest step in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/business\/real-estate\/article\/new-caney-retail-valley-ranch-hope-media-20339466.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Signorelli\u2019s ongoing transformation<\/a> of this once rural part of East Montgomery County. Over the past two decades, Signorell has ushered in about 2,000 single-family homes in Valley Ranch, alongside millions of square feet of commercial space. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In May,\u00a0Signorelli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/business\/real-estate\/article\/new-caney-homes-healthcare-district-expansion-22231066.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">unveiled plans<\/a> for Azalea District, a 328-acre section of Valley Ranch that will include healthcare providers, clinics and urgent care facilities, along with additional single-family homes. Later this year, Signorelli said it will also break ground on a 188-acre upscale retail project known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/business\/real-estate\/article\/retail-mixed-use-new-development-houston-21118226.php#marketplace\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the developer says these projects could turn Valley Ranch into a regional retail and commercial hub for this fast-growing part of Montgomery County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Houston-area developer is building a new 400,000-square-foot mixed-use project that will include New Caney\u2019s first H-E-B grocery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-373723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373723","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=373723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}