FORT WORTH -- Tom Thumb will open a new urban concept store in the Left Bank residential and retail development along West Seventh Street across from Trinity Park by the end of 2016 or early 2017, the grocer’s regional president said Monday.
“This is going to be great for the Fort Worth community … but it’s also going to be really great for our company,” Dennis Bassler, southern division president for Tom Thumb and Albertsons, said during a groundbreaking ceremony. “I can’t remember the last time we built in Fort Worth.”
The Left Bank store will be the first location in Texas for the new concept, Bassler said. Supermarket executives were joined by officials from developer West Miller, Centergy Retail and the city of Fort Worth to herald the start of construction on the 53,000-square-foot store that will include a wine-and-beer bar, and organic and gluten-free sections.
The Left Bank project is west of the Trinity River and on the north side of West Seventh Street, just east of the Fort Worth & Western Railroad tracks and Montgomery Plaza. At the site, a parking garage is nearing completion for 600 apartments that will be built there.
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