Costco Is Following North Texas Growth, With Another Warehouse Planned for Wylie
Costco is continuing its North Texas growth with a new warehouse planned in Wylie. This follows recent store openings in nearby suburbs as the Dallas-Fort Worth area expands outward to accommodate rising population and retail needs.
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Costco’s North Texas expansion is moving deeper into the suburbs, with a new warehouse planned for Wylie just weeks after stores opened in Celina and Mansfield and another location prepares to open in The Colony.
The Wylie project would bring a roughly 165,000-square-foot Costco warehouse and fuel center to 2002 W. Kirby St., northeast of Dallas.
Construction is scheduled to begin Oct. 12 and run through Aug. 6, 2027, with an estimated combined investment of about $42.3 million. The timeline represents planned construction rather than a confirmed opening date.
The warehouse accounts for roughly $40.2 million of the project, with another $2.1 million planned for the fuel center.
The location has not yet appeared on Costco’s official list of upcoming openings, so a 2027 opening should still be considered expected rather than formally announced.
But the broader expansion across North Texas is already well underway.
Costco is moving toward the region’s growing edges
Costco opened a 158,000-square-foot warehouse in Celina on Aug. 26, one day after another new location opened in Mansfield.
Next comes The Colony.
Costco currently lists The Colony among its official October 2026 openings. The approximately 155,000-square-foot warehouse is being developed at Grandscape near Spring Creek Parkway and Grandscape Boulevard. See Costco’s current list of upcoming warehouses
Taken together, the locations trace the changing map of Dallas-Fort Worth.
Large retailers that once concentrated around established suburban centers are moving farther outward as housing construction and population growth push into communities that were considerably smaller only a few years ago.
Celina may be the clearest example.
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that Celina grew from about 17,100 residents in 2020 to 64,427 in 2025 — an increase of nearly 277%. Between 2024 and 2025 alone, its population jumped 24.6%, making it the fastest-growing U.S. city with at least 20,000 residents.
Wylie’s growth has been less explosive but still substantial. Its population reached an estimated 63,842 in 2025, up 11% from its 2020 population base.
The retail follows the rooftops
For years, rapid Sun Belt suburban growth has largely been discussed through the number of houses being built.
The next stage is increasingly about what arrives after the houses.
Warehouse clubs, grocery stores, home-improvement retailers, restaurants, medical offices and entertainment businesses tend to follow once an area reaches enough population density and household spending power to support them.
Celina’s Costco is already part of a larger wave.
Home Depot and Academy Sports + Outdoors have also opened along Preston Road, creating a major new commercial corridor around a city whose population was below 17,000 at the 2020 Census. Celina officials describe the Costco project as one of the city’s first major big-box retail developments.
That pattern extends well beyond one suburb.
Census researchers found that Dallas-Fort Worth reached roughly 8.5 million residents in 2025, up 11% since 2020. Much of that growth occurred on the metropolitan area’s outer edges rather than in its established core.
Five northeastern outer-ring cities more than doubled their populations during that period. Dallas-Fort Worth also gained roughly 270,000 residents through domestic migration between 2020 and 2025, more than any other U.S. metro area.
Costco’s recent location choices increasingly overlap with that growth.
Costco itself is still getting bigger
The Texas projects are also part of a wider expansion by Costco.
The company operated 939 warehouses worldwide as of early September, including 647 in the United States and Puerto Rico. Costco reported $297.3 billion in net sales for its fiscal year ended Aug. 30, up 10.2% from the previous year.
Costco executives have said the company is building a larger pipeline of future locations and ultimately wants to open more than 30 net new warehouses annually.
That makes rapidly growing Sun Belt metros natural territory.
Dallas-Fort Worth combines millions of existing households with some of the fastest-expanding suburbs in the country. Similar conditions can be found around Houston, Phoenix, Charlotte, Nashville and other Sun Belt markets where residential growth keeps creating new retail territory.
For communities such as Celina and Wylie, a Costco can become something else as well: a marker that a place has crossed from growing suburb to major retail market.
The stores themselves are enormous, but the more important story may be what surrounds them.
More households arrive. Roads expand. Large retailers follow. Smaller businesses fill nearby sites. Shopping trips that once required a drive into an older suburb begin happening closer to home.
In North Texas, Costco is increasingly following that map outward.
And if the Wylie project moves ahead on its current schedule, another fast-growing suburban community could have its own warehouse by 2027.
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