The Hobby Lobby Manor store planned for Kimbro Crossing now has a clearer construction picture: a new state filing identifies a 55,000-square-foot building, an estimated $6 million in construction and a schedule running from December 2026 into July 2027.
Hobby Lobby’s arrival has already been part of Manor’s public development discussions. The new details show the scale of the store itself—a full-size destination for crafts, home décor and seasonal shopping beside Academy Sports + Outdoors at U.S. 290 and Old Kimbro Road.
For a company that began with homemade miniature picture frames and a $600 loan, the Manor building offers a striking measure of growth. It would be roughly 183 times the size of Hobby Lobby’s original 300-square-foot shop in Oklahoma City.
Hobby Lobby Manor plans call for a full-size store
The October 5 registration with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation lists the new store at 14019 E. U.S. Highway 290, at the highway’s northwest corner with Old Kimbro Road. The scope calls for a new retail building, rather than a renovation of an existing storefront.
At 55,000 square feet, Manor’s store matches the size of the Hobby Lobby that opened October 2 in Granbury. That gives shoppers a current Texas example of the scale planned here. Hobby Lobby identified Granbury as its 121st Texas location.
The company’s official Texas directory, checked October 5, lists stores in Austin, Pflugerville, Round Rock and other nearby cities but none in Manor. The Kimbro Crossing store appears poised to become Hobby Lobby’s first Manor location, giving residents a local option for shopping trips that currently lead outside the city.
Where Hobby Lobby fits at Kimbro Crossing
The project-specific site plan makes the arrangement easy to see. Hobby Lobby occupies Lot 2, highlighted in orange and labeled 55,023 square feet. Academy sits directly beside it on Lot 1, labeled 55,000 square feet. Large parking areas extend in front of the two stores, with access connecting to the development’s street network.
Academy has its own state construction registration, filed in August, for approximately 55,000 square feet and $6 million in estimated construction. It lists the same owner, Ercor Kimbro Manor LLC. Together, the two stores account for roughly 110,000 square feet of planned retail space.
Kimbro Crossing is the development at U.S. 290 and Old Kimbro Road. Its identity matters along a highway with several separate retail projects: TCM’s earlier Toasted Yolk coverage concerns Manor Crossing, a different development.
The city’s April planning agenda described Kimbro Crossing’s broader concept as 17 lots on approximately 52.69 acres. A later June land-division proposal covered three lots on about 10.98 acres. Those different boundaries help explain why the supplied plan includes so much land beyond the first anchors. Areas marked for future phases leave room for additional businesses, without identifying a tenant for every lot.
What shoppers can expect inside
Hobby Lobby’s current merchandise descriptions span home accents, floral supplies, fabric, yarn, art materials, jewelry making, paper crafts and seasonal décor. The company says its selection includes more than 80,000 items. That is the retailer’s broader offering, rather than a Manor-specific inventory list.
The appeal reaches beyond one kind of hobby. A shopping trip might involve supplies for a school project, materials for a handmade gift, a craft kit for the weekend or decorations for a room. The planned store would bring that kind of browsing and project shopping into Manor.
Seasonal merchandise adds another reason for repeat visits. Hobby Lobby’s mix includes decorations and materials that change with holidays and the calendar, alongside everyday creative supplies. The supplied Christmas photograph illustrates that part of the business; it shows an existing store.
The Hobby Lobby Manor project’s exact department layout and opening inventory have not been announced. The building size, however, places it on the same scale as the company’s latest full-size Texas opening.
From a $600 frame business to a national retailer
Hobby Lobby’s beginnings were much smaller than the store now planned for Manor. According to the company’s history, David and Barbara Green borrowed $600 in 1970 and began making miniature picture frames at home. The business started with a product they could manufacture themselves, two years before the first Hobby Lobby store opened.
In 1972, the Greens opened a 300-square-foot retail space in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. That little shop became the starting point for a chain that now reports more than 1,000 stores in 48 states and approximately 50,000 employees.
The comparison with Manor is memorable: dividing the planned 55,000 square feet by the original shop’s 300 produces a building about 183 times as large. It is a comparison of store area, not sales or the size of the company, but it makes the change tangible.
The original frame-making business also remained part of the story as the retail chain expanded. Hobby Lobby identifies Greco Manufacturing as the operation that grew from David Green’s garage business into the company’s custom-frame production.
In a 2016 company announcement, Greco celebrated producing more than one million custom frames during the previous year. The company said the Oklahoma City operation made those frames exclusively for Hobby Lobby. A business that began with miniature frames had developed the capacity to support framing orders from stores across the country.
Another milestone followed in January 2018, when Hobby Lobby opened its 800th store in Clearwater, Florida. Its current total has since passed 1,000. The Manor project represents another step in that decades-long expansion, bringing a much larger version of the original creative-supplies business to a new local market.
A store backed by a long-term lease
Hobby Lobby was already a named part of Manor’s June public discussion of Kimbro Crossing, alongside Academy. The October filing adds store-specific construction details to a project residents have been hearing about for months.
Broadstone Net Lease provided another important piece in its August 25 development announcement. It reported securing the land and starting construction on the two Manor properties. Its Hobby Lobby disclosure lists a 15-year lease: the property is being developed specifically for the retailer under a long-term arrangement.
Broadstone estimated approximately $10.3 million in total project investment for Hobby Lobby. The new state filing’s $6 million construction estimate measures something different. One describes Broadstone’s broader project investment; the other describes the estimated construction work registered with the state.
Hobby Lobby Manor construction timeline
The new filing calls for construction from December 15, 2026, through July 23, 2027. Ercor Kimbro Manor LLC is the listed owner, and CESO Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, is the design firm. The registration’s scope is a new Hobby Lobby retail store.
Broadstone’s earlier disclosure used an August 2026 construction start and a June 2027 target for project delivery. Those dates differ from the later state registration. The records do not explain the difference, and neither provides a confirmed retail grand-opening date.
For Manor shoppers, the next useful announcement will be when the doors open. The new filing already makes the scale clear: a full-size Hobby Lobby beside another major retail anchor, with room in the surrounding development for additional commercial phases.