The Grid in Stafford in final phases, remaining acres to be filled out in 2026

The details

Construction on The Grid began in fall 2018, according to its Facebook.

Businesses already open in The Grid include:

• Costco
• Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers
• Plucker’s Wing Bar
• In-N-Out Burger

The Grid also includes plans to repurpose the former Texas Instruments campus, which was built in the mid-1970s and permanently closed in 2012, Schiller said.

Schiller said his company has “hundreds of plans” for the Texas Instruments office building, a centerpiece of the project, but the development group has yet to decide how to repurpose the space.

“Some [plans] are tearing it down, some are using pieces,” Schiller said. “The majority of that building was where they did silicon chip manufacturing. ... It wasn't really kind of built out for, let's say, moving some office people in.”

Schiller said Fort Bend County is “incredibly dense,” leading to high traffic counts along roads passing by The Grid. An estimated 328,000 cars drive past The Grid daily on Hwy. 59, West Airport Boulevard, Kirkwood Road and Murphy Road, according to an East Fort Bend Development Authority presentation to Fort Bend County commissioners March 12.

“If you're going to the [Texas] Medical Center, Astros game, museum district, ... you're basically going to pass the site one way or another,” Schiller said.

With a balance of restaurant, commercial and residential space, The Grid gets a mix of its business from the residents residing in its roughly 1,500 on-site apartment units, Schiller said.

“We create basically a base of customers right on site,” Schiller said. “That then feeds and will feed the continued restaurant growth.”

What’s next

Schiller said 2026 is the target date for The Grid’s completion, and could go quicker if there aren’t any unforeseen delays like Houston’s recent weather events.

“We've been talking to everyone that you can imagine, that you know about and that you don't know about,” Schiller said. “We really want the right use and users that will finish this off and make it a continuing, healthy, growing community.”