H-E-B grocery cart fills with 46 acres of vacant land in West San Antonio

​SAN ANTONIO – H-E-B has expanded its local real estate
portfolio, buying about 46 acres of vacant land on the West Side near Lackland
AFB’s Medina annex.

Deeds filed with Bexar County show the grocery chain has
bought a cluster of properties near the intersection of US 90 and Loop 1604
from three Kansas-based partnerships.

The properties are in a fast-growing area where many new
developments have popped up over the past decade.

The land is also far from any grocery store — about three miles
south of an H-E-B Plus on Potranco Rd. and three miles southwest of another on
Marbach Rd. The nearest Walmart, also on Marbach Rd., is more than two miles
away, while another is near the Potranco H-E-B.

The transaction marks the San Antonio-based grocery chain’s
first land purchase since early last month, when it bought about 61 acres on
the Northeast Side near the intersection of Loop 1604 and I-10 East.

The chain has made several other land purchases
so far this year, according to county land records.