If you drive down HWY 59/I 69 you will notice as you pass the shopping center where Beard Fine Jewelry is, there is a large empty field. This used to be where El Chico and the Scenic Acres Mobile Home Subdivision were located.

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It's a total of 26 acres and stretches down the loop behind Marcos Pizza. We now know that it will one day be a new Brookshire Brothers store.

Read More: What Will Happen To The Old Scenic Acres Mobile Home Subdivision In Lufkin

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As more dirt work and other projects happen at the site, more and more people are seeing that something is going on there, and it has piqued their interest.

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The expectations have risen very high for this new location. Brookshire Brothers recently built the 40,000-square-foot "Stage 12" store in College Station.

Brookshire Brothers Got Its Start In Lufkin, Texas

Since Lufkin is the starting place for Brookshire Brothers, if this store is anything less than the one in College Station, some Lufkin shoppers will not be impressed. No matter what it turns out to be it will be clean and new; and for me, that will be enough.

Read More: Lufkin Now Only Has Two Brookshire Brothers

 

We haven't gotten many details from Brookshire Brothers themselves, but just looking at all of the space there, almost anything could happen.

If Shopping Local Is Important To You This Is The Place

You can't get any more local than Brookshire Brothers in Lufkin. It has been an institution here since the 1920s.

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Take a look at what the lot looked like two years ago.

Last Look At Scenic Acres Trailer Park Lufkin, Texas

The homes are all gone and something new is going into this location soon.

Gallery Credit: Dan Patrick

New Shopping Carts At H.E.B. In Lufkin

Lots of changes are coming to the H.E.B. in Lufkin, starting with new shopping carts with drink holders.

Gallery Credit: Dan Patrick

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Gallery Credit: Dan Patrick

 

 

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