These elevations show the Kroger Marketplace that’s under construction inside the Towne Lake master-planned community in Northwest Houston. The new 120,000-sq.-ft. grocery store, which will sell home goods, jewelry, and clothes, too, will be located in the so-called “commons area” of Towne Lake at the intersection of Barker Cypress and Tuckerton. Says Fred Caldwell, the developer of Towne Lake, about the new store: “[It] will have an architectural design similar to a Texas Hill Country look. It will be a lot different than the traditional grocery store people see.”
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The elevations show as well that there will be a pharmacy, bank, and Starbucks inside.
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- New grocery store to open in Towne Lake [Community Impact Newspaper]
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Towne Lake sees more growth [Houston Chronicle]
Drawings: CDA Architects
A new grocery store mall with Texas Hill Country stylings. Who says living the suburban dream is boring and predictable?
It looks so different from a traditional grocery store that I didn’t even recognize it as one. This is truly innovative design.
Because some consultant convinced the folks at Kroger corporate that people are just itching to pick up diamond jewelry while shopping for frozen corn and milk.
“…grocery store, which will sell home goods, jewelry, and clothes, too…”, why didn’t they just say it’s going to be like, you know, a WalMart?
Arrrgh! Houston is not the freaking Hill Country! It’s like Austin is invading us one building at a time.
Unlike all other supermarkets, this one will be a giant boxie building with an enormous parking lot in front.
“It will be a lot different than the traditional grocery store people see.â€
The hill country-style twin drive thru really had me fooled. I never would have guessed it was a grocery store!
Where’s the rooftop residential?
Looks exactly like the now defunct “The Great Indoors” store elevations. That dated back to 1997 so innovation isn’t this things calling card.
So I take it this attempts to put the heat on the tiny H-E-B at 290? (no, not the Fairfield one)
Looks exactly like the new one in richmond that opened earlier this year …..
If it’s like all these other big box / grocery stores, it will likely consist of 30+ register check out lanes with only 3 up and running at a time. It always amazes me going into a Walmartesque store inevitably seeing this is standard operating, or lack thereof, procedure.