{"id":388850,"date":"2026-07-28T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388850\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:30:08","slug":"walmart-buys-land-for-possible-new-san-antonio-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388850\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart buys land for possible new San Antonio store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walmart.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Walmart<\/a> could be building its first new store in San Antonio since 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bentonville, Ark.-based company purchased 34.7 acres off Culebra Road on San Antonio\u2019s far West Side on July 21, according to Bexar County property records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re always looking for opportunities to expand and better serve communities,\u201d a Walmart spokesperson said. \u201cWe have no additional information to share at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The property is valued at $9.2 million, according to the Bexar Central Appraisal District. Real estate entities Kallison Ranch of Texas and Miller Kallison Ranch LLLP were the sellers. Kallison Ranch is a master-planned community and historic ranch area. The land originally was purchased by pioneer Nathan\u00a0Kallison in 1910. Portions of the family property now <a href=\"https:\/\/tpwmagazine.com\/parks\/ranch-of-pioneer-texas-family-became-part-of-government-canyon\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">make up part of Government Canyon State Natural Area<\/a>, while active residential and apartment developments operate nearby off Culebra and Talley roads.<\/p>\n<p>With 38 local stores and $2.9 billion in sales last year, Walmart has the second-largest share of the local\u00a0grocery market with 26.3%, according to industry publication Chain Store Guide. By comparison, H-E-B has the largest share, 49.5% of the local market, with 64 stores and about $5.5 billion in sales.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart opened its last new store, a now-closed Neighborhood Market on the South Side, in 2016. Since then, the company has focused on major store expansions, relocations and multimillion-dollar remodels of existing local stores.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past five years,\u00a0Walmart has invested more than $2.5 billion to remodel stores throughout Texas. This year, the retailer is remodeling 72 stores in Texas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/business\/article\/san-antonio-walmart-stores-remodel-22211954.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including six in San Antonio<\/a> and one in Austin. The retailer remodeled eight stores in San Antonio last year and 20 in the metro area in 2023-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walmart could be building its first new store in San Antonio since 2016.\u00a0 The Bentonville, Ark.-based company purchased&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-388850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388850","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=388850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}