Sprouts Farmers Market is building stores in New Braunfels and Kyle, expanding its footprint in the booming Interstate 35 corridor between San Antonio and Austin. The company is constructing a 23,256-square-foot store at FM 1626 and Kohlers Crossing that will anchor a shopping center within the Plum Creek master-planned community in Kyle, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation and developer GBT Realty Corp. The $1.
work ‘will never conclude’ as region keeps growing, TxDOT director says Phoenix, Ariz.-based Sprouts has more than 400 stores across 23 states. It has 53 in Texas, including three in the San Antonio area and five in the Austin area. Company executives have said they plan to open 35 stores this year. In Bexar and surrounding counties where H-E-B and Walmart are the dominant grocers, Sprouts claims a 0.6% share of the $9.8 billion grocery market with $58.