Montgomery's H-E-B Is Due in Mid-November. On Tuesday the Council Takes Up a Lowe's.
By The Magnolia Standard · October 23, 2026
In July we drove up the road and found a town waiting on a grocery store. The wait is nearly over, and the next big box is already on the agenda.
Montgomery's first H-E-B is expected to open in mid-November, according to city documents prepared for the City Council's meeting on Tuesday, October 27.
The store sits at the southeast corner of Hwy. 105 and FM 2854. On Tuesday the council is set to consider its final plat, the recorded map of the lot, which is among the last pieces of paperwork a project clears before it opens. The documents show H-E-B paying the city $165,950 in impact fees, the one-time charges a Texas city can collect from new development toward the water and sewer capacity it will draw on.
When we first wrote about the store in July, the target was the last quarter of 2026. Mid-November keeps it there.
A Lowe's, on paper
The same agenda carries an escrow agreement with Lowe's Home Improvement. It says the company plans to buy and develop 9.12 acres the documents call the Buffalo Stewart Crossing tract, and a site plan places the store near C.B. Stewart Drive.
Under the agreement, Lowe's would put $7,000 into a fund that repays the city for the cost of overseeing the development. That is the money the agreement puts down. An escrow agreement is not a building permit, and no opening date appears in the documents.
The sewer math
Growth is easy to see from the highway. The wastewater plant is where a city feels it.
Montgomery treats an average of 225,000 gallons of wastewater a day, and its two plants can handle 400,000. A memo from the city's engineering consultant expects 700,000 gallons a day by 2030. That is three-quarters more than the plants can treat now, four years out.
The council will consider paying $60,900 for an analysis of how to get there. The plants and upgrades under consideration would bring combined capacity to 1.4 million gallons a day.
An old house and a park
Two smaller items are about places rather than stores. The council is set to vote on a $500,000 grant, funded by the Montgomery Economic Development Corporation, to renovate the historic Garrett / Rabon Fullen House. The house was recently moved downtown and is planned as retail space.
Council members will also hear a presentation on $800,000 in upgrades for Cedar Brake Park, a new playground among them. And the city wants to hire a communications and events manager to run its outreach, special events and recreation programs.
Getting there
The meeting is in the council chambers at City Hall, 101 Old Plantersville Road. The road outside is due for work of its own. Montgomery County commissioners awarded a $3.9 million rebuild of Old Plantersville Road to Larry Young Paving on September 10, with work estimated to start this month. The project widens the road to 26 feet and adds a shoulder. It does not add lanes.
The agenda had not been posted to the city's online agenda center when this edition went out. That page lags; the city posts the official notice at City Hall ahead of each meeting.
Sources: Community Impact's October 22, 2026 preview of the October 27 Montgomery City Council meeting, which reviewed the agenda documents, for the H-E-B opening, plat and impact fees, the Lowe's escrow agreement and site, the wastewater figures and study cost, the Garrett / Rabon Fullen House grant, the Cedar Brake Park upgrades, the communications position and the meeting location; and Community Impact's October 20, 2026 transportation update for the Old Plantersville Road contract. The definition of impact fees follows Chapter 395 of the Texas Local Government Code. The paper has not seen the agenda packet itself. Corrections to editor@themagnoliastandard.news.