LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - An East Texas based company made a major advancement in Longview today.
The Brookshire Grocery Company held its grand opening of the FRESH grocery store off of Highway 259.
The new FRESH joins Tyler and Rockwall County as the third location in Texas.
Shoppers said they’ve been waiting to see the store for quite some time.
“I was super excited because I shop in the one in Tyler so now I don’t have to go to Tyler anymore. I can actually just go right down the road,” Jessica Heim, who has lived in Longview for three months, said.
“I think a lot of us have been to the store in Tyler, and so I think we’ve all anticipated and impatiently waiting for the store to up,” Atley Alston, who was born and raised in Longview, said.
Construction began about 14 months ago before finishing last Friday.
The building is 66,000 square feet, which is 10,000 square feet larger than the store in Tyler.
Jerry LeClair with the Tyler based Brookshire Grocery Company says it’s their most expensive store to date. The project costed over $20 million.
“The community has been so, so behind this store. We’re just getting great support,” LeClair said.
The Brookshire Grocery Company hired over 250 employees for the new location.
The store showcased its brick oven for cooking pizza, a bult-in Starbucks, an outdoor patio for live music, and a playground for kids. There’s also 12 gas pumps in the front parking lot of the store.
“It’s like more expanding than what we had growing up, and now that we’re seniors, they’re opening more stuff which is great,” Kailie Hamblen, a senior at Longview High School said.
“We’ve waited for months. We’ve heard about it I guess about a year ago, and we were tickled to death that it opened up,” Thad Foster, who lives in Hallsville, said.
The store expects to open two Tesla charging stations within the next week.