bought the nearly 10-acre piece of land<\/a> in January, and their plans for the site include a 100,000-plus-square-foot grocery store.<\/p>\nThe site currently has aging office buildings, according to Dallas city filings. Its zoning ahead of the rezoning effort allows for low-rise office buildings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At meetings ahead of the City Plan Commission vote, residents near the site had expressed concerns about the potential traffic impacts. H-E-B had sought to ease some of those concerns, proposing dedicated turn lanes, among other measures, to ease congestion around the store.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We appreciate the thoughtful consideration from city officials, staff, and community members throughout this process. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with the city and neighbors,” the company said in a statement after Thursday’s vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some speakers at the City Plan Commission Thursday again raised traffic concerns, though, and among the traffic mitigation measures proposed is a right turn lane at Hillcrest Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I love H-E-B… but this is a really bad location for everyone concerned,” nearby resident Nell Taylor said during a recent meeting regarding the project ahead of the city plan commission vote. “The traffic is a huge concern. My biggest concern is the crime rate… I just feel like there is going to be a lot of vandalism, and it’s going to make a lot of havoc for our neighborhood.”<\/p>\n
While the proposed North Dallas store would be the first one in Dallas proper, H-E-B did open a Joe V’s Smart Shop<\/a> in southern Dallas in the 4100 block of W. Wheatland Road last year. followed by a second Joe V’s Smart Shop at 7700 Samuell Boulevard that opened earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas City Council will still have to approve the plans for the store. DALLAS \u2014 The first…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":237359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-237358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115227572803124821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}