National retailer announces new location in Seguin

Seguin, TX, USA / Seguin Today

Cindy Aguirre

(Seguin) – A national retailer has selected Seguin for its newest location. The Seguin Economic Development Corporation recently announced that Harbor Freight Tools will be moving into at 16,000 square foot space in the Seguin Crossroads Shopping Center located in the 1500 block of East Court Street next to Tractor Supply.

According to the company, Harbor Freight is “America’s go to store for low prices on power tools, generators, jacks, tool boxes and more.”

Applauding this latest name to be added on a list of incoming retailers is Josh Schneuker, SEDC executive director.

“They are going to be in between the former Beall’s space. You can kind of still see I guess the etching from the sign that used to be there and then in between there and where the current Burke’s is so kind of right dead in the middle there. It’s kind of where I guess The Cranny is located in that area but The Cranny is also going to moving to a larger space in between Burke’s and Boot Barn and so a lot of stuff happening at that center and just a lot of opportunity I think for the city,” said Schneuker.

The store is only one of growing list of retailers moving into Seguin. Schneuker says Crossroads especially has been working overtime to help fill its leasing vacancies.

“I mean we are really excited. Harbor Freight was identified as a targeted retailer for us and we have been working to get them to come to Seguin for a little while now. Everything really in my mind kind of ties back to having that shopping center acquired by the development, investment group out of Houston I think that their expertise that they have been able to bring to the table has really helped to accelerate the retail real estate opportunities that are available and now, what we are starting to see – it’s kind of the fruits of their hard work – We are actually seeing renovations at that shopping center right now with Boot Barn working on their improvement. The Old Republic Title is moving in there and Harbor Freight as well. We are really excited about this. We’ve got again a great property owner that is working hard as well to get their available real estate in front of a lot of the targets that we’ve been going after for several years,” said Schneuker.

Welcoming Harbor Freight to Seguin is just more evidence for Schneuker who last March predicted that Crossroads would quickly attract new business to Seguin following its purchase by commercial real estate investment group PBC Interests of Houston.

“In terms of available space that they have left, they’ve got really one really big space available. It’s closer to about 30,000 square feet and I know that the property owner and their leasing team are in contact with a few different retailers on that space and I think that could be the next domino to fall and that would leave just really a couple more smaller spaces. We are going to go from a shopping center that just really not to long ago was at 30 percent occupancy to maybe going into the summer and into the fall, we could be definitely over 80-85 percent occupancy for the center, so I think that just really speaks volumes that these national retailers are really starting to see the opportunities that are available here in Seguin with our growing community,” said Schneuker.

There are currently 1,300 locations nationwide. The store is expected to open in Summer 2023.

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