Panera Bread will open its 4th location in Fort Worth this spring. Here’s where.
Panera Bread plans to open its first restaurant in far south Fort Worth.
Records filed last week with the city and state show a Panera is coming to the Shops at Chisholm Trail Ranch, along McPherson Boulevard just east of Chisholm Trail Parkway. It will be the fourth Panera cafe in the city, the closest other being on South Hulen Street at I-20.
The 2,400-square-foot bakery will fill one of the few remaining parcels of the shopping center, which opened in 2020. Other eateries there include Chick-fil-A, Whataburger, Chipotle and MOD pizza.
Construction of the Panera is slated to begin in mid-December and finish in mid-April. The project is estimated to cost about $750,000.
The Shops at Chisholm Trail Ranch, developed by Oklahoma City-based Mazaheri Properties, is one of several new developments that have sprung up along McPherson Boulevard. Across the street is land owned by Texas grocery giant H-E-B (it hasn’t announced a store there... yet). A Target is coming along McPherson on the west side of the parkway.
Panera overhauled its menu this spring and has been rolling out smaller concept “next generation” cafes that cater more to digital and to-go orders. The Panera on South University Drive — the first in Tarrant County, opened in 2000 — is about twice the square footage that the new one will be, records show.
As of September, Panera had nearly 2,200 bakery-cafes in 48 states, Washington and Canada. The company’s other brands include Caribou Coffee, Einstein Bros. Bagels and Bruegger’s Bagels.
