Drive Rosamond Parkway toward U.S. 75 today and you will see chain-link fencing, graded dirt, and tilt-wall shells going up faster than the traffic light cycles. Not long ago this stretch was open pasture. Within the next year or two it will hold two separate shopping centers, built by two different development teams with two different lenders, both betting on the same few miles of highway.
That is not how retail usually gets built. Developers do not typically commit to the same growth corridor within months of each other unless something in the math has changed. In Anna's case, something has. The town crossed a threshold that made two independently financed retail projects pencil out at once, and understanding why tells you more about what's actually changing here than any single groundbreaking photo will.
Two Deals, One Corridor
The southeast corner of Rosamond Parkway and U.S. 75 belongs to Rosamond Crossing, a 175,300-square-foot first phase anchored by a 123,000-square-foot Kroger Marketplace. Kroger started construction on its store in the fall of 2025, and by April 2026 infrastructure work on that corner was about 70 percent complete, according to a Dallas Business Journal update carried by WFAA. Phase one was already fully leased at that point, with Bank of America, Chase, Jimmy John's, and McDonald's joining the grocery anchor. Kroger is targeting a fourth-quarter 2026 opening, which would put a full-service grocery store at that corner before the end of this year. A second phase, planned for the opposite side of the highway, is part of Rosamond Crossing's longer-range buildout toward roughly 800,000 square feet, though the developers have not attached a firm date to that expansion.
A short drive north, at Rosamond Parkway and Buddy Hays Street, Big V Property Group and The Seitz Group broke ground on Rosamond Town Center on June 30, 2026. This is a separate 355,826-square-foot project, financed through a different capital partner, Principal Asset Management, with a construction loan from Citizens Bank. Its anchor lineup reads like a checklist of stores Anna residents have been driving to Frisco or McKinney for: Academy Sports + Outdoors, Aldi, Burlington, EOS Fitness, Hobby Lobby, HomeGoods, PetSmart, and T.J. Maxx.
| Development | Location | Size (current phase) | Anchors | Status as of September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosamond Crossing | SE corner, Rosamond Pkwy & US-75 | 175,300 sq ft | Kroger Marketplace, Bank of America, Chase, Jimmy John's, McDonald's | Fully leased, Kroger targeting Q4 2026 opening |
| Rosamond Town Center | Rosamond Pkwy & Buddy Hays St | 355,826 sq ft | Academy Sports + Outdoors, Aldi, Burlington, EOS Fitness, Hobby Lobby, HomeGoods, PetSmart, T.J. Maxx | Broke ground June 30, 2026 |
Two separately financed retail projects, backed by two different capital partners and two different construction lenders, landing within a couple of miles of each other on the same growth corridor. Developers do not usually make that bet twice in the same stretch of highway unless the numbers pencil out independently on both sides.
Why Retail Is Suddenly Catching Up
New ground-up retail construction has been unusually rare across the country for most of the last decade. Big V Property Group's own announcement of the Rosamond Town Center groundbreaking cites Green Street data showing new retail supply rising just 0.5 percent annually over the past ten years, compared with 2.5 percent before the 2008 financial crisis, and open-air development starts averaging only 0.3 percent of existing stock a year since the pandemic. Retailers have mostly been backfilling existing space rather than building new stores.
Anna is one of the places where that pattern is breaking. The city has been ranked among the fastest-growing in the country for communities over 20,000 residents, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates cited alongside the Rosamond Town Center groundbreaking. Collin County as a whole grew 12 percent between 2020 and 2023 to nearly 1.2 million residents, with projections that put it at roughly double that size by 2060, on the scale of Houston's current population.
Eric Seitz of The Seitz Group put it plainly when Rosamond Town Center broke ground:
"With the city of Anna's support and our partnership with Big V, we've created a Class A destination that brings grocery, restaurants, retail, wellness services, everything that the residents have asked for, to the community."
Translated for a resident standing in line at the current QuikTrip or driving twenty minutes for a Costco run, this means the retail gap that has defined Anna for years is closing on a specific, dated timeline instead of staying an open question. Rosamond Crossing's Kroger is under construction now and aiming to open before the year is out. Rosamond Town Center's eight anchors start construction behind it, on a longer horizon. The rooftops arrived first, and the stores are now racing to catch up.
The Sprouts Wrinkle
A third piece of the puzzle landed in June 2026, when the city announced that Sprouts Farmers Market will open a location in Anna as part of a separate development, this one expected to include a mix of restaurants, retail, medical services, a convenience store, and banking. Unlike the two Rosamond projects, this one does not yet have a confirmed address, square footage, or opening date attached to it in public filings. What it does confirm is that the pattern at Rosamond Parkway is not a one-off. Grocery-anchored development is showing up as a recurring bet on Anna's growth from more than one developer, which is a different signal than a single company making a single move.
Downtown Still Runs on Its Own Clock
None of this touches the part of Anna that isn't measured in square footage. Downtown, along the historic square, the pace and the tenant mix haven't changed with the highway corridor, and that's worth naming rather than assuming.
- Country Charm Coffee, at 628 W. White Street, is a small coffee and pastry shop residents describe as a genuine neighborhood hangout, right down to the owner offering a taste of the cold brew before you commit.
- Crow's Country Cafe and Sunview Cafe still handle the breakfast crowd with the kind of chicken fried steak and skillet menus you don't find at a chain.
- Spurlock's Malt Shop keeps a fifties-diner format going, right down to the drive-thru milkshakes.
- Kalamaki Greek Eatery and Salsa Tex-Mex round out downtown's dinner options with food that has nothing to do with the national names heading to Rosamond Parkway.
- The Anna Depot, built in 1885 by the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, is recognized as the oldest surviving railroad station in Texas and now operates as the town's local history museum.
Slayter Creek Park sits a short drive from downtown and has quietly become the spot residents point to when they talk about what makes Anna livable day to day, from its dog park and walking trails to programmed events like National Disc Golf Day, which the city hosted there in August 2026.
What Changes, and When
For a resident planning the next twelve months, the practical answer to "where do I go" splits cleanly by timeline. Right now, in the fall of 2026, a grocery run, a sporting goods trip, or a gym membership still means driving to McKinney or Frisco. Downtown remains the place for a slow morning, a diner breakfast, or a walk past the Depot. That doesn't change on any Rosamond Parkway construction schedule.
What does change is the calendar for everything else. Kroger's store at Rosamond Crossing is on track to open in the fourth quarter of 2026, ahead of most of what's still under construction nearby. Rosamond Town Center's eight anchors, having just broken ground in June 2026, will follow on a longer timeline. Sprouts adds a third confirmed grocery name to the pipeline without a firm date attached yet, and Rosamond Crossing's own second phase across the highway remains open-ended too.
Anna's Downtown Square keeps its own rhythm in the meantime, with the Anna Fall Festival bringing a pumpkin patch, food vendors, and local artisans to the square on October 18, 2026, a reminder that the town's civic center of gravity hasn't shifted to the highway yet, even as the highway corridor gets busier by the month.
If you're trying to make sense of what a specific pocket of Anna will actually look like a year or two from now, or how a corridor like Rosamond Parkway changes the value equation for a particular street or subdivision, that's a question worth working through with someone who tracks these projects as they break ground, not just when they open. Janell Branch works with buyers, sellers, and investors across Anna and the surrounding North Texas communities. Schedule a consultation if you want to talk through what any of this means for your own address.
