H-E-B warehouse opens in Weslaco

WESLACO — A major H-E-B Grocery Co. warehouse that serves the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas as far as San Antonio and Corpus Christi is now in operation.

H-E-B’s new Weslaco warehouse, which it calls a “Retail Support Center-Regional Dry Grocery Facility,” is a 400,000-square-foot warehouse that already has more than 100 employees and is expected to grow, company spokeswoman Shelly Parks said.

The new warehouse, located at 1100 Panther Dr. near Weslaco High School, is adjacent to an H-E-B regional truck terminal that employs 80 people, she said.

The new warehouse will serve H-E-B stores all over South Texas, but not the H-E-B stores that have been opened in Mexico, Parks said.

“It is very similar to the one in operation in Houston,” she said.

The new warehouse and truck terminal, along with a new H-E-B store built on Westgate Drive, were first announced by a Weslaco city planning official in 1998.

The company bought about 100 acres of land on which it phased in several projects including the supermarket that opened in 2000 and now the warehouse.

H-E-B will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tours for VIPs and news media on Oct. 12.

“The good news is that H-E-B is going to continue to grow,” Parks said.