VALLEY VIEW, Texas — Grocery giant H-E-B has purchased more than 600 acres in this small southern Cooke County town for a master-planned supply chain campus, marking one of the largest land acquisitions in the company's history and a potentially transformative moment for the community of fewer than 900 residents.
The San Antonio-based company announced the purchase of the property along Interstate 35 and E. Lone Oak Road, approximately 60 miles north of Fort Worth. The multi-phase campus will support H-E-B's supply chain operations across North and West Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"Buying this property marks the first step in developing a master-planned campus that will strengthen our ability to serve more Texans," said Carson Landsgard, H-E-B's chief supply chain officer. "This project reinforces our commitment to communities across the state and will generate more local job opportunities in the years ahead."
H-E-B did not announce a specific number of jobs the campus would create or provide a construction timeline, saying plans are still in the early stages. The company said it would share more details as the project develops.
The Valley View acquisition is part of H-E-B's aggressive expansion into the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The company has opened stores in Plano, McKinney, Allen, Frisco, Prosper, Melissa, Mansfield, Rockwall, and Forney, with additional locations announced or under construction in Irving, Murphy, Carrollton, Denton, and Sherman. The supply chain campus would provide regional distribution and logistics infrastructure to support that growing store footprint.
Alongside the Valley View purchase, H-E-B also acquired 122 acres adjacent to its existing distribution facility in Temple to support future growth there. No immediate construction plans were announced for the Temple parcel.
The Valley View deal adds to a wave of major land acquisitions along the I-35 corridor in Cooke County. North Texas developer Rex Glendenning recently purchased the 815-acre Pace Ranch near Gainesville for a mixed-use development, and BNSF Railway has proposed a 1,000-acre logistics park between Sanger and Valley View.
Valley View sits at a strategic crossroads on I-35, the major north-south freight corridor connecting the DFW metroplex to Oklahoma City and beyond. The town's position along that route has drawn increasing attention from logistics and distribution companies looking for land north of the rapidly developing Denton County market.
Related: Developer Rex Glendenning also recently purchased 815 acres along I-35 near Gainesville for a mixed-use project. For the full picture of corridor development, see The I-35 corridor boom.