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H-E-B Market opens in Bunker Hill
  
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After much fanfare, the long-awaited H-E-B Market Bunker Hill opened to the public at 6 a.m. Friday morning.
The 127,900 square foot store at 9710 Katy Freeway blends the best of H-E-B’s popular -- and upscale -- Central Markets with its more traditional food and drug stock.
The store was ready in time for an invitation-only preview party Thursday night that drew an estimated 2,000 guests. A jazz band and a string quartet from Memorial High School entertained guests inside the store as they sampled foods prepared from the store’s offerings. Outside, early-arrivers watched dancers on stilts from Aldine ISD.
The store was opened with a symbolic ribbon-cutting. H-E-B corporate officials presented a $5,000 donation to the Spring Branch Education Foundation.
New departments at the store include:
Healthy Living
Cook and Grill
Card and Party area
Showtime Cooking Stations
Cheese Shop
Tortilleria
Cooking Connection
Coffee Roast
General Manager John May and his team spent weeks meeting with leaders of the Memorial villages, schools, neighborhoods and business community, learning what was wanted in a store.
Those suggestions were integrated into the store’s design and inventory, resulting in more wine and cheese offerings, for example, as well as an expanded ethnic and international section.
Store hours are 6 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
Reported by Rusty Graham
rgraham@hcnonline.com
The 127,900 square foot store at 9710 Katy Freeway blends the best of H-E-B’s popular -- and upscale -- Central Markets with its more traditional food and drug stock.
The store was ready in time for an invitation-only preview party Thursday night that drew an estimated 2,000 guests. A jazz band and a string quartet from Memorial High School entertained guests inside the store as they sampled foods prepared from the store’s offerings. Outside, early-arrivers watched dancers on stilts from Aldine ISD.
The store was opened with a symbolic ribbon-cutting. H-E-B corporate officials presented a $5,000 donation to the Spring Branch Education Foundation.
New departments at the store include:
Healthy Living
Cook and Grill
Card and Party area
Showtime Cooking Stations
Cheese Shop
Tortilleria
Cooking Connection
Coffee Roast
General Manager John May and his team spent weeks meeting with leaders of the Memorial villages, schools, neighborhoods and business community, learning what was wanted in a store.
Those suggestions were integrated into the store’s design and inventory, resulting in more wine and cheese offerings, for example, as well as an expanded ethnic and international section.
Store hours are 6 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
Reported by Rusty Graham
rgraham@hcnonline.com
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