Any truth to the rumor — a reader wants to know — that the former Kmart space near the Burlington Coat Factory in the shopping center on the west side of Hwy. 290 near 43rd St. is going to be a brand-new H-E-B Market? Some, it turns out. It’s going to be the third-ever Joe V’s Smart Shop, H-E-B’s Scott McClelland tells Swamplot. (The first Joe V’s — H-E-B’s new bigger-store-with-less-stuff-for-less-money grocery format — opened last year on Antoine near Veterans Memorial.) A fourth Joe V’s is slated for the northern reaches of Shepherd Dr. near I-45, at Victory Dr.
- Previously on Swamplot: Joe V’s Smart Shop on Antoine: H-E-B’s Prototype Big Box Grocery Store
Photo: Swamplot inbox
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Is that better or worse than HEB Pantry? How many versions of HEB ARE THERE?
Doesn’t ‘joe v’s’ sound a bit like ‘trader joe’s’
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Ahhh, marketing.
omg, I live right there. Best news ever! Good scoop Swamplot!
Does it keep the incredibly annoying HEB layout?
the touch of Joe V’s hand cures cancer.
Incredibly annoying? HEB is laid out just fine. Moving to the Heights from Rice, the only downside was losing close-by access to the fantastic Buffalo Speedway location.
Just a small note: The Burlington Coat Factory is a former Kmart. The soon-to-be Joe V’s is actually a former Service Merchandise.
V is for Vato, that’s good enough for me.
So glad I found swamplot I kept wondering what they were building next to Burlington and this was the only blurb I found on Google Like!
Kmart? Isn’t that space the old Service Merchandise. Seems odd that if it was a Kmart it would have been so close to the one that now formerly sat at W18th and TC Jester
John – yes, it is the old Service Merchandise. The two K-Marts did coexist, if I recall correctly, the one on TC Jester closed because of flooding from Allison before the 43rd/290 closed.