Whole Foods is coming to Southlake as a part of a new mixed-use development
It’s official: Whole Foods is coming to Southlake.
The Trademark Property Co. is bringing Shivers Farm, a more than $120 million, 40-acre mixed-use development, to Southlake. Whole Foods will anchor the development. Trademark says it will be the “first major grocer North of Hwy 114.”
Initially, Trademark was not allowed to announce which grocery store would be in the retail part of the development, and referred to it only as a natural grocer. However, on Thursday, June 18, the developer confirmed in a news release that the natural grocer coming to Southlake is a Whole Foods Market.
The Shivers Farm Development will be located at 1900 N. White Chapel Blvd. The project will break ground this summer, and is slated to finish at the end of 2027, according to Trademark.
The company also said in the release it’s working to finalize the design on the three-story office portion of the project.
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Shivers Farm will include 37 single-family lots; 110,000 square feet of retail space, including the grocery store; 38,000 square feet of office space and a 3-acre pad approved for a hotel with a full-service restaurant, entertainment or other retail, all anchored by “a nearly one-acre park built around existing heritage live oak trees,” according to the news release.
Trademark also wrote in the release that it is working on negotiations with 49,000 square feet of potential retailers and restaurants.
During a city council meeting on June 16, city council members voted unanimously to approve a master development agreement (MDA) with Trademark.
“The City of Southlake and the Shivers family have been great partners in moving Shivers Farm along, and we’re excited to begin construction in the coming months,” said Blake Bickmore, Vice President of Development at Trademark. “We are taking special care to design a place that brings the Southlake community together, activating the property with an intentional tenant mix and emphasizing walkability and public spaces to seamlessly link each element of the project.”
According to city documents, the MDA creates the structure for how the building project and partnership with the city should take place.
“The MDA defines the roles and responsibilities of the City and the developer for planning, constructing, and funding public improvements and private development necessary to implement the project consistent with the City’s zoning approvals and comprehensive plan,” the document reads.
This is not an agreement on any part of the project itself, but rather an agreement on the process of working together, according to the city.
The two other Whole Foods in Tarrant County are in Colleyville and Arlington. Whole Foods was founded in Austin in 1980 and is now part of Amazon.
Trademark was the developer who built Waterside in Fort Worth, the 63-acre mixed-use community along Bryant Irvin Road that is anchored by the city’s only Whole Foods Market. It opened around 2016.
The company also partnered with Hillwood to develop Alliance Town Center, and it is building the second phase of Westbend on South University Drive, including luxury apartments and 4,500-square-feet of restaurant space.