Austin, TX
H-E-B opens another store and True Texas BBQ in Austin suburb
H-E-B opened its newest store in the Austin, Texas, suburb of Pflugerville on Nov. 13, the San Antonio-based grocery chain announced.
The 127,000-square-foot location, which includes a True Texas BBQ restaurant, opened about a month after H-E-B announced plans for a new location in San Marcos, about 40 minutes south of the Texas capital. That location will also feature a True Texas BBQ restaurant.
The new Pflugerville store will include a dedicated covered parking area for curbside delivery, a full-service pharmacy with a two-lane drive-thru, a fuel station with car wash, and a Texas Backyard section with gardening and outdoor products, the grocery chain said in a press release.
H-E-B operates more than 30 True Texas BBQ restaurants now in the state.
The grocer noted that the Pflugerville location incorporates environmental sustainability elements including CO2 refrigeration units, LED lighting, and native landscaping on the property.
The new store at 2641 E. Pflugerville Parkway is H-E-B’s third Pflugerville location, the retailer said. H-E-B operates more than 435 stores in Texas and Mexico.
H-E-B has been rapidly expanding across the Lone Star State, breaking ground on a 101,000-square-foot store in Manor, which is just southeast of Pflugerville. The grocer also broke ground on a third location in Georgetown, Texas, in September, about 30 miles north of downtown Austin. That follows the opening of another Georgetown location in 2023.
On Oct. 9, the grocery chain announced plans to open a new store in the Dallas suburb of Forney. And in June, H-E-B opened a 128,000-square-foot store in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex town of Mansfield, Texas.
In 2023, H-E-B opened four more locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area cities of Allen, Frisco, Plano, and McKinney.
The expansion of H-E-B stores in Texas also includes its specialty banners, Joe V’s Smart Shop and Central Market. H-E-B opened a Joe V’s, which is the grocer’s small-format discount concept store, in metro Houston in June and plans to open another in Dallas in Spring of 2025. H-E-B now operates 10 Joe V’s stores in metro Houston.
H-E-B also recently confirmed that it plans to open a Central Market, a concept store that focuses on natural and organic foods, in Dallas. It will be H-E-B’s 11th Central Market location.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas’ highway system dropped two spots since 2025, and now ranks at No. 27 in the country for its cost-effectiveness and overall conditions, according to the Reason Foundation’s 2026 Highway Report.
The report assessed pavement conditions, fatalities, deficient bridges, infrastructure costs and congestion levels across the United States. Texas earned the following rankings:
- 33rd in urban interstate pavement conditions
- 21st in rural interstate pavement conditions
- 39th in urban arterial pavement conditions
- 12th in rural arterial pavement conditions
- 3rd in structurally deficient bridges
- 26th in urban fatality rate
- 42nd in rural fatality rate
- 41st in traffic congestion
“More than 42,000 of the nation’s 618,923 highway bridges, nearly 7%, are still structurally deficient. Arizona, Nevada, and Texas reported the lowest percentages of deficient bridges,” the report said.
The full report can be found online.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Small hail peppered the Austin area as strong thunderstorms moved through Saturday.
A few of the storms dropped rain and up to pea-sized hail in San Marcos, Dripping Springs and the Austin metro area.
A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for Williamson County around 8:15 p.m., and then canceled shortly after. However, it was enough for the Two Step Inn music festival in Georgetown to cancel shows for the rest of the evening. Event organizers say the festival will run as planned Sunday.
KXAN’s First Warning Weather team is monitoring the storms. We will update this post as the evening continues.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution unveiled a new monument at the Texas State Cemetery on Saturday, dedicated to Texas Revolutionary War soldiers.
“We must educate every generation about why it is that America grew from a tenuous 13 colonies into the most powerful country in the history of the world,” said Governor Abbott. “This monument here is an enduring testament to the heroes who fought for the freedom that is unique to America.”
The monument was dedicated to 69 soldiers who fought in the American Revolutionary War and later settled in Texas, according to a press release.
Among those that were honored, Abbott recognized:
- José Santiago Seguín, grandfather of Texas Revolutionary hero Juan Seguín.
- Peter Sides, who fought in the 2nd Battalion of the North Carolina Regiment of the Colonial Army, and was later killed in the 1813 Battle of Medina, fighting for Mexican independence against Spain.
- Antonio Gil Y’Barbo, the founder of Nacogdoches.
- William Sparks, who fought as a mounted rifleman in the American Revolution and later settled in Texas. He had two sons and two grandsons who fought in the Texas Revolution.
“This year marks the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, which not only gave freedom to the British colonies of North America, but inspired movements for freedom and liberty all over the world,” said TSSAR President Mel Oller. “Texans played a role in the war too, and it’s important to recognize them, and the sacrifices they made for our freedom.”
At the monument unveiling, Abbott was also inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution and received its Silver Good Citizenship Medal.
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