Academy Opens at Magnolia Village on November 14. It Is the Second Big Store on That Corner, After Lowe's.
By The Magnolia Standard · October 30, 2026
In July we wrote that Academy was coming and nobody had a date. Now there is one: two weeks from tomorrow.
Academy Sports and Outdoors will open its Magnolia store on Saturday, November 14, according to the company's website, as Community Impact reported on October 27.
The address is 4353 Magnolia Village Drive. Academy's own store locator already lists it. The building sits in Magnolia Village, the retail development going up at FM 1488 and Spur 149, where Lowe's opened earlier this year.
It is a big box. The store is 55,000 square feet and cost $8 million to build, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
What is inside
Academy is a Houston-area company. Its stores carry sports equipment, athletic clothes and shoes, camping gear and grills.
The counter work brings in its own crowd. Like the chain's other stores, the Magnolia location will sell hunting and fishing licenses, spool line onto reels, and boresight rifles and mount scopes.
The corner, so far
Not long ago this corner was mostly open ground. Lowe's came first. Academy makes two large stores on the same corner, with the rest of Magnolia Village still filling in.
Store hours for opening day had not been posted on Academy's site when we checked. If you shop there the first week and want to tell readers what it is like, write to us.
- Opens: Saturday, November 14, 2026
- Where: 4353 Magnolia Village Drive, Magnolia 77354, off FM 1488 at Spur 149
- Online: Academy's Magnolia store page
Sources: Community Impact, October 27, 2026, for the November 14 opening date from the company's website, the 55,000 square feet and $8 million cost from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing, the merchandise and the in-store services. Academy's store locator, checked October 30, for the address. Our July 17 story on the Lowe's opening at Magnolia Village. Opening dates are the company's and can change. The Magnolia Standard has no business relationship with Academy. Corrections to editor@themagnoliastandard.news.