Cedar Park’s second Wal-Mart opened May 21 northeast of the intersection of Ronald Reagan and East Whitestone boulevards. The retailer has since drawn more developers to the intersection.

In May, Pflugerville-based Huffman Builders will break ground on the Spanish Oaks plaza behind Wal-Mart. The 60,000-square-foot facility will be anchored by a new office for Cedar Park Pediatric & Family Medicine, which plans to move from its office at 920 N. Vista Ridge Blvd. Huffman Principal Ron Evans said Spanish Oaks has leased or sold 13,000 square feet. He said the plaza should be finished by December. “The Ronald Reagan corridor may be the golden corridor of development in Cedar Park,” Evans said. “I expect the traffic counts are already getting up close to 20,000 cars a day.” A new location of the Zaxby’s fast-food chicken restaurant chain will also open in April in front of Wal-Mart at 13521 Ronald W. Reagan Blvd. More than 40,000 vehicles drive on Whitestone Boulevard every day, said Phil Brewer, Cedar Park director of economic development. In August the city of Cedar Park and the Texas Department of Transportation began a project to remodel the intersection, which is scheduled to finish in early 2016.