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H-E-B starts construction of Super Regional Grocery Warehouse

Facility seen as first step of new master-planned campus in San Antonio

Russell Redman

November 26, 2018

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H-E-B has broken ground on a massive new warehouse in San Antonio, Texas, that the company said will be its largest-ever manufacturing and supply-chain division investment.

Called the San Antonio Super Regional Grocery Warehouse, the planned 1.6-million-square-foot facility is part of a multi-phase project to develop 871 acres on the city’s East Side. Construction is expected to be completed in late 2019, with the warehouse going into operation in 2020.

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The groundbreaking of the superregional warehouse

H-E-B said the Super Regional facility will be its biggest single-build warehouse and hold more than 17,000 grocery items. It will initially have 200 loading docks, enabling about 180 trailer trucks to make outbound deliveries daily.

In addition, the warehouse will feature solar power solutions and a centralized HVAC system and, once up and running, will be H-E-B’s most energy-efficient facility in its industrial network, the Texas grocer said.

“As San Antonio grows, we’ve been honored to grow with it, expanding our footprint of stores and digital retail offerings to serve more Texans,” Carson Landsgard, senior vice president of supply chain and logistics at H-E-B, said in a statement. “More than anything, the construction of our newest warehouse facility supports H-E-B’s future and ongoing commitment to be the best in-store and digital retailer in Texas.”

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H-E-B noted that the new warehouse site, situated along Interstate 10 and Foster Road, will provide room to grow plus extra space for dry goods and other grocery products. The development, too, will bring supply volume relief to facilities in San Antonio and San Marcos, the company added.

The San Antonio Super Regional Grocery Warehouse will take over from the distribution center along Rittiman Road in San Antonio, which has served the city and surrounding areas for more than 50 years, according to H-E-B. When built in the 1960s, the warehouse measured about 120,000 square feet and housed approximately 3,800 grocery items.

H-E-B said that, for the long term, it aims to develop a master-planned campus at the location, including such operations as manufacturing, warehousing and transportation. Thus far, no plans are in place for other development on the property besides the warehouse project. The company purchased the undeveloped land, located is directly across from China Grove, Texas, in September 2017.

At the start, the new warehouse will have about 600 to 700 workers, H-E-B reported. Of those, roughly half will be new jobs, and the rest of the positions will come from H-E-B’s existing warehouses, the company said.

San Antonio-based H-E-B, which generates annual sales of $25 billion, operates 400 stores overall, including around 340 stores in Texas and nearly 60 stores in Mexico.

About the Author

Russell Redman

Senior Editor
Supermarket News

Russell Redman has served as senior editor at Supermarket News since April 2018, his second tour with the publication. In his current role, he handles daily news coverage for the SN website and contributes news and features for the print magazine, as well as participates in special projects, podcasts and webinars and attends industry events. Russ joined SN from Racher Press Inc.’s Chain Drug Review and Mass Market Retailers magazines, where he served as desk/online editor for more than nine years, covering the food/drug/mass retail sector. 

Russell Redman’s more than 30 years of experience in journalism span a range of editorial manager, editor, reporter/writer and digital roles at a variety of publications and websites covering a breadth of industries, including retailing, pharmacy/health care, IT, digital home, financial technology, financial services, real estate/commercial property, pro audio/video and film. He started his career in 1989 as a local news reporter and editor, covering community news and politics in Long Island, N.Y. His background also includes an earlier stint at Supermarket News as center store editor and then financial editor in the mid-1990s. Russ holds a B.A. in journalism (minor in political science) from Hofstra University, where he also earned a certificate in digital/social media marketing in November 2016.

Russell Redman’s experience:

Supermarket News - Informa
Senior Editor 
April 2018 - present

Chain Drug Review/Mass Market Retailers - Racher Press
Desk/Online Editor 
Sept. 2008 - March 2018

CRN magazine - CMP Media
Managing Editor
May 2000 - June 2007

Bank Systems & Technology - Miller Freeman
Executive Editor/Managing Editor
Dec. 1996 - May 2000

Supermarket News - Fairchild Publications
Financial Editor/Associate Editor
April 1995 - Dec. 1996 

Shopping Centers Today Magazine - ICSC 
Desk Editor/Assistant Editor
Dec. 1992 - April 1995

Testa Communications
Assistant Editor/Contributing Editor (Music & Sound Retailer, Post, Producer, Sound & Communications and DJ Times magazines)
Jan. 1991 - Dec. 1992 

American Banker/Bond Buyer
Copy Editor
Oct. 1990 - Jan. 1991 

This Week newspaper - Chanry Communications
Reporter/Editor
May 1989 - July 1990

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