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Supermarket chain H-E-B has good news about store at Alliance Fort Worth

H-E-B has good news for DFW shoppers.

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Supermarket giant H-E-B continues its expansion in Dallas-Fort Worth, with progress on two major projects.

The chain will officially open the doors of H-E-B Alliance located at 3451 Heritage Trace Pkwy. in Fort Worth on April 10.

The store has been in the works since 2022.

H-E-B Alliance marks the fifth H-E-B location in the DFW region.The store, which is on the northern edge of Fort Worth, builds on the company’s longstanding presence in the area, joining two Central Market locations, which have been open in Tarrant County for more than two decades.

Fort Worth is surrounded by towns with H-E-B stores including Burleson, Granbury, Cleburne, Corsicana, Ennis, Hudson Oaks (the most recent opening), Stephenville, and Waxahachie.

The retailer will also break ground on a store in Prosper, at the southeast corner of Frontier Parkway and Dallas North Tollway. The ground-breaking will take place on Tuesday, April 2.

Prosper is one of three new stores slated to open on the east side of DFW in 2025, along with stores opening in Melissa and Rockwall.

They began construction on the Melissa location in January 2024.

H-E-B is officially in expansion mode across Dallas-Fort Worth, beginning in Frisco where the chain opened its first area location in September 2022, followed by Plano, which opened in November 2022, with two more stores, McKinney and Allen, opening in 2023.

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Stoner's Pizza Joint will bring a buzz to Fort Worth's West 7th Street

Stoner's

Stoner's Pizza Joint

A pizzeria with a serious buzz is rolling into Fort Worth: Called Stoner’s Pizza Joint, it'll be located at 2401 W. 7th St. #115, in the former 7th Street Daiquiri Cafe, where it will open in early April.

Stoner's is a chain founded in Georgia in 2013, which began franchising in 2018. In 2020, Fort Lauderdale franchisee John Stetson bought the company and became CEO. They're a delivery and takeout quick-serve concept with pizzas, calzones, strombolis, wings, salads, and desserts.

The menu includes basics like pepperoni but also specialty options such as the steak pizza with onion, mushroom, and pepper on a white garlic sauce; and the taco pizza, with beef, jalapenos, and taco seasoning, served with a side of lettuce, tomato, sour cream and buffalo sauce.

Pizzas come in three sizes: 10-inch, 14-inch, and the Really Big 18-inch. Prices range from $10 to $27.

The name is a fun play on stoner culture and joints which manifests itself on the menu as well. Appetizers are called "munchies," and include pepperoni pizza rolls, cheese sticks, and garlic knots.

This will be the second location in the DFW area, following a location that opened in Rowlett in September 2024. Both locations are from franchisee Wakaas Abdrazak, who has spent the past 20 years in construction.

"We were looking to bring something new to the market that was different than other pizzerias," Abdrazak says. "What impressed me about the group in charge of it is they have a background of doing this business for 30-40 years and know everything from scratch."

With his background in construction, he's designed the DFW locations himself, to appeal to DFW's sophisticated taste. That meant toning down the chain's vivid color scheme and modernizing the ambience, with fewer signs in favor of white walls with a Stoner's Pizza Joint logo on one wall and a number 7 with wings on another wall by the stairs as a nod to West 7th Street.

There are plans for two more Stoner's Pizza locations soon including east Dallas at 2335 N. Fitzhugh Ave. #10, slated to open in May; and in McKinney, which is slated to open by early 2026.

"We keep some of the soul of the city in each location and keep elements of the area in the logo," Abdrazak says. "It's how we serve the community."

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