Central Market shoppers meet construction chaos through 2027

A Central Market on Broadway at 4821 Broadway is still under a two-phase revamp that was expected to end in June 2026. Parking lot work is mostly done, but fences, shutdown equipment, and a reshuffled interior have pushed the project completion to the end of 2

On a Monday, June 1, the parking lot at Central Market on Broadway looks close to finished. The entrance and exit lanes are still crowded by a few large trucks, but the shuffle is mostly outside.

Inside, though, the store feels like it’s been cut into separate worlds.

Half the storefront remains wrapped in fences, beams and construction crews. What used to be a familiar grid of neatly organized rows now reads like isolated sections. Beer sits where prepared foods used to be. Kombucha and cold coffees are tucked away in the back right. Cheese looks close by, but it’s barricaded by temporary structures and shutdown equipment.

For shoppers who haven’t been in a while, the biggest shock isn’t the noise. It’s the map. “Essentially. nothing is where you remember it being. ” the experience has turned from a quick errand into something more deliberate—because finding what you came for now means navigating a layout you don’t recognize.

This is the result of a revamp that began two years ago at the lone Central Market location at 4821 Broadway. The timing has stretched. When the announcement came in early 2024—surprising shoppers who associate San Antonio with H-E-B headquarters. yet still have only one Central Market on Broadway—work was initially slated to wrap up by June 2026. An H-E-B spokesperson said at the time. “At this time. we expect the project to be completed by the end of 2027.”.

As of this week, the parking lot appears to be mostly complete, but the storefront work is still in progress and the interior remains in flux.

The construction plan is divided into two phases. Phase one cost about $6.5 million and wrapped up in 2024. Phase two will cost H-E-B nearly $22 million and is now expected to be finished at the end of next year.

When it’s fully completed, the store’s façade will be completely revamped, the interior will get a full remodel, and the café seating area will expand.

There’s also the reason H-E-B leaders say the disruption is worth it. In March. Stephen Butt—H-E-B’s president of Shareholder Relations and the Central Market Division—spoke about the work at the corner of Broadway and Patterson. describing the store’s long-running relationship with the community and its “Partners.”.

“For decades, at the corner of Broadway and Patterson, a special relationship has been built between our store, this community, and our Partners,” Butt said.

“When our work is finished, the newly renovated Broadway Central Market and our friendly Partners will be well equipped to continue serving our customers with the freshest and best specialty products the world has to offer, for many years to come,” he continued.

The question now for regulars is less about whether the renovation will eventually come. It’s about what shoppers will endure on the way there—into 2027, and, for some, into 2028—when they walk in expecting Central Market and find a moving target instead.

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