With shovels in hand and wearing hard hats, Bedford’s Mayor Dan Cogan, Police Chief Bobby LaPenna and Fire Chief Bill Walker helped break the ground Thursday for the new Mid-Cities H-E-B grocery and pharmacy.  Also in attendance were Council Members Amy Sabol and Joy Donovan Brandon, as announced in a City press release and according to the City’s Director of Communications Molly Fox.

According to the City’s release, the projected opening date for the store is in mid-2026.

Located on land shared by Bedford and Euless, the 126,000-square-foot store will be located at the northwest corner of Cheek-Sparger Road and Rio Grande Boulevard, along with an H-E-B Fuel station, car wash, pharmacy drive-thru, expanded grocery pick-up area, and True Texas BBQ, according to an H-E-B press statement.  The statement also said the new location “will include a full-service H-E-B Pharmacy with a drive-thru, True Texas BBQ restaurant and H-E-B Curbside and Home Delivery,” along with a fuel station and car wash.

Estimated to bring 600 jobs to the area, the H-E-B statement said it expects to “offer positions that range from department managers to cashiers.”

To coincide with the groundbreaking, and through their “Spirit of Giving philosophy,” their statement announced, H-E-B is donating $10,000 each to locally based 6 Stones, The Clubhouse for Special Needs, Upright Theatre Company and the HEB ISD Education Foundation.

Along with the new store in Bedford and Euless, the statement said they have already opened locations across DFW, including Frisco, Plano, McKinney, Allen, Alliance and Mansfield.  The store chain claims to be “the largest privately held employer in Texas.”