DTX-MCK: Impact 10/24/2025

🛒 A new Kroger Marketplace store is coming to northwest McKinney along the city's border with Prosper, Weitzman Executive Vice President David Palmer confirmed. The store will serve as the anchor tenant for Custer Frontier Marketplace, a commercial development at the southeast corner of North Custer Road and Laud Howell Parkway.

The specifics: A groundbreaking for the Kroger store, which will span 99,000 square feet, is planned for February 2026, Palmer said. The project will also include about 45,000 square feet of retail space as well as six pad sites that will be developed.

Quote of note: “The center will feature a mix of small shop spaces for retail, service users and restaurants as well as pad sites, ideal for retail, dining, service and medical tenants looking to capitalize on a high-income, family-driven demographic of the trade area,” the Weitzman website states.

• Southeast corner of North Custer Road and Laud Howell Parkway, McKinney

🐕️ Livewell Animal Hospital of McKinney, which will be located in Shoppes at Stonebridge, is slated to open this year, Marketing Manager Ellen Chandler Livewell said.

What the will offer: “Livewell Animal Hospital of McKinney is a full-service animal hospital that focuses on friendly, expert, comprehensive veterinary care to help your pets live the healthiest life paw-sible,” Chandler said in an email.

🎶 City officials are committing $9.4 million from McKinney’s Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone 1 to the upcoming Sunset Amphitheater project to meet financial obligations under an economic development agreement with Venu.

What happened: McKinney City Council members approved the agreement during an Oct. 21 meeting after TIRZ board members approved funding the same day.

The overview: The $9.4 million is being appropriated from the city’s TIRZ fund in order to pay for impact fees and offsite infrastructure improvements. The agreement also authorizes up to $30.6 million to pass through TIRZ-captured revenues and go back to the developer.

What that means is that a portion of revenues generated on the Sunset Amphitheater property would go back to pay Venu instead of the TIRZ fund, Assistant City Manager Jennifer Arnold said.

✈️ McKinney National Airport’s upcoming Display Day has been rescheduled due to inclement weather forecast Saturday.

The gist: The airport is now hosting Display Day from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 26 at 1508 Industrial Blvd, according to a city advisory. Admission and parking is free for the event. Attendees will be able to view a range of aircraft including emergency medical services helicopters, drones, corporate jets, and Civil Air Patrol planes.

🗳️ Two constitutional amendments on the Nov. 4 ballot would impact the operation and oversight of Texas’ judicial system if approved by voters.

The details: State Proposition 3 seeks to require judges to deny bail for certain felony offenses, keeping more defendants in jail as they await trial. Proponents of the measure, which passed the Legislature with bipartisan support, said in June that it would improve public safety by keeping violent offenders behind bars.

Proposition 12 would rework the 13-member State Commission on Judicial Conduct, allowing the governor to appoint a majority of the commissioners and requiring most sanctions for judges accused of misconduct to be issued publicly. The bipartisan proposition faced pushback from some House Democrats who expressed concerns that allowing the governor to appoint a majority of commissioners would politicize the nonpartisan judicial conduct commission and give Abbott more power to remove from office judges whom he does not agree with.

Zooming out: The measures are among 17 state propositions being considered by Texas voters in the Nov. 4 election.