A long-awaited Tom Thumb supermarket just east of downtown Dallas plans to open this fall on the ground floor of a new 14-story apartment building.
The 56,000-square-foot supermarket will be on the street level of the Gabriella, a 378-unit apartment building scheduled to open this summer and that has started leasing its one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.
Tom Thumb originally planned to open in late 2019, but work on it and the Gabriella was temporarily halted after a tragic crane accident during heavy storms in June 2019 that killed one person and injured five others.
The construction crane fell onto the Elan City Lights apartments next to the Gabriella, which is on Live Oak Street between Cantegral and Texas streets. The properties, both developed by North Carolina-based Greystar Real Estate Partners, have been tangled in legal disputes since the accident a year ago.
The Elan had 500 residents when the storm hit, and it still hasn’t reopened because the property is tied up in lawsuits between the former residents, Greystar, the Bigge Crane and Rigging Co., and insurance companies.
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Construction on the Tom Thumb was also delayed by the pandemic.
A year before the accident, Tom Thumb opened a convenience store with gasoline pumps across the street from the future supermarket.
“Usually we open the fuel station and the full-service store within a closer time frame. But we’re excited to have a more full-service store in the area soon,” said Christy Lara, a spokeswoman for Tom Thumb.
The new Tom Thumb will have drive-up-and-go parking spaces in the underground parking garage for online shoppers.
“That service has become even more important to customers since the pandemic,” Lara said. Parking will be free for all customers. The store will have a pharmacy, a Starbucks, a full-service bakery, a deli, and meat and fish counters.
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The store’s main entrance will be at the corner of Live Oak and Texas streets with another entry at Cantegral and Live Oak. It’s a six-minute walk to DART’s Deep Ellum Station.
Deep Ellum has attracted several new residential projects in the past two years. The 26-story, 310-unit Hamilton high-rise is part of the 8-acre Epic Development site that includes Uber’s new regional campus. The Novel Deep Ellum apartments at Canton Street and Malcolm X Boulevard has 231 luxury units in its seven stories.
Less than a mile north of the Tom Thumb is a proposed five-story apartment complex by Georgia-based Southeastern Development near the corner of North Central Expressway and Hall Street. It will have an 85,000-square-foot Kroger and 375 apartments.
“We believe the area around the store is growing, and more people are moving in,” Lara said.
Last year, Tom Thumb opened its first urban store in the ground floor of The Union, a $350 million new residential and office high-rise complex in Uptown. “It’s doing well,” she said.
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