A new Dick’s Sporting Goods Bastrop project would bring a full-size, 55,000-square-foot store to Burleson Crossing East, giving local shoppers another major destination for athletic footwear, sports equipment and activewear. The newly registered project carries an estimated construction cost of $11 million and appears poised to become the retailer’s first Bastrop location.
The plans put a familiar national name into the shopping district along State Highway 71. They also bring a business with an unusually modest beginning: Dick’s started as a small bait-and-tackle shop financed with $300 from its founder’s grandmother. The distance between that little fishing shop and the building planned for Bastrop is a story of its own.
Construction is scheduled in the state filing for December 1, 2026, through December 31, 2027. The latter is an estimated construction-completion date. A Bastrop opening date has not yet been confirmed.
Dick’s Sporting Goods Bastrop: a major new shopping option
Dick’s official Texas store directory, checked October 5, lists locations in Austin, Bee Cave, Cedar Park and other Texas cities, but none in Bastrop. That supports describing this as the city’s apparent first Dick’s, while the project itself is documented by a new state registration and the supplied leasing plan.
The building’s size helps explain the significance. At 55,000 square feet, it would be more than twice the size of the 23,349-square-foot Sprouts project that helped anchor Burleson Crossing East’s first phase. This is a substantial store with room for multiple departments.
The filing names Dick’s Sporting Goods. It does not identify the project as Dick’s House of Sport, the company’s larger experiential concept, which it has described as approximately 100,000 square feet or more. No climbing wall, outdoor field or batting cage has been announced for Bastrop.
Where the Bastrop store is planned
The filed address is still TBD Burleson Lane, rather than a final street number. The current leasing plan gives readers a much clearer picture: Dick’s occupies a large building in the Phase II area, next to the space labeled Burlington. Cavender’s and Barnes & Noble appear across the parking area, while Wagon Wheel separates this section from the first phase containing Sprouts and PetSmart.
Those neighboring names describe what the leasing plan shows. They do not, by themselves, confirm signed leases, active construction or opening dates. Dick’s has additional, project-specific evidence: the October 5 state filing explicitly names the retailer, identifies Burleson Crossing East as the facility and lists BRP East Phase II LLC as owner.
The development is associated with Durhman & Bassett Realty Group. Its public property page highlights the earlier retail and restaurant lineup; the newly registered Dick’s project adds a major sporting-goods store to the next phase’s plans.
What shoppers can expect from a full-size Dick’s
Dick’s broader merchandise mix spans team sports, running, fitness, golf, footwear, athletic clothing and outdoor recreation. Its current Austin store information, for example, describes equipment for basketball, baseball and football, along with running shoes, workout apparel, golf clubs and camping gear.
For shoppers, that means a retailer built around several different kinds of trips: getting a child ready for a sports season, replacing worn running shoes, choosing workout clothes or shopping for equipment for a weekend outside. The precise Bastrop assortment and services will depend on the store’s eventual announcement.
The Dick’s Sporting Goods Bastrop plans establish the store’s size and location, but they do not yet provide a department-by-department floor plan. The photographs here illustrate the company’s existing stores; they are not previews of the Bastrop interior.
A rejected idea, a grandmother’s $300 and a fishing shop
Long before Dick’s became a national retail name, Richard “Dick” Stack was working in an Army surplus store in Binghamton, New York. According to the company’s history, the young fishing enthusiast was asked by his employer to recommend products for a fishing-tackle business. He prepared his suggestions, only to have the owner dismiss them. Stack quit.
He told his grandmother what had happened. When she asked what it would cost to start a store himself, his answer was $300. She took the money from the cookie jar where she kept her savings and gave him the chance to try. In 1948, Stack opened the bait-and-tackle business that became Dick’s Sporting Goods.
The early years were harder than that familiar origin story might suggest. In a family account written by his daughter, Kim Stack-Myers, an unsuccessful attempt at a second location forced Stack to close both stores. He sold possessions, including his home and car, to repay debts. A banker later helped him start again.
That setback makes the eventual expansion more striking. The business grew beyond fishing into a broader sporting-goods shop, but it remained small for decades. When Dick’s son Ed took over in 1984, the company still consisted of only two stores, according to Binghamton University’s account of Ed’s 2019 hometown talk.
Ed had worked in the family business as a teenager and initially wanted a different career. Over time, he came to see its possibilities. Expansion eventually carried Dick’s beyond upstate New York; the headquarters moved to Pittsburgh in 1994, and the company went public in 2002. Growth brought its own problems, including pressure on distribution and finances, Ed recalled. The national chain emerged through decades of expansion and difficult adjustments.
The fishing connection remains visible today. Dick’s still markets rods, reels, tackle and other fishing equipment. Seen beside the historic shop photograph, a modern fishing department offers a direct connection between the company’s beginnings and the much broader sporting-goods business now preparing to enter Bastrop.
A place in Bastrop’s established retail district
The planned store will join an area that already draws shopping trips. The broader site plan places Dick’s near established Burleson Crossing retailers, including Lowe’s, Academy Sports + Outdoors and Hobby Lobby, with SH 71 along the district’s southern edge. For residents familiar with those stores, the plan provides a useful way to locate the new addition.
Burleson Crossing East’s first phase has also moved beyond a conceptual plan. Sprouts announced its March 6, 2026, Bastrop opening at 655 Highway 71, Suite 101, and the location remains in its current store directory. The developer’s materials also identify PetSmart, LongHorn Steakhouse and First Watch among the first-phase names.
Earlier city planning records describe a 19.81-acre Burleson Crossing East tract at the northeast corner of SH 71 and Edward Burleson Drive. The property moved through land-use planning and subdivision review before the present wave of stores. That background helps explain the setting for Dick’s: an extension of an established shopping district with a newer phase now adding another large retail building.
Dick’s Sporting Goods Bastrop construction timeline
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation registration, TABS2027002729, covers both construction of the building itself and the complete interior buildout of the Dick’s store. The $11 million figure is the estimated construction cost for that work.
BRP East Phase II LLC is listed as owner, with Steve Durhman as its contact. Fox Design Group LLC of Solon, Ohio, is the design firm. The project remains registered, with the filed schedule calling for work to begin in December 2026 and finish by the end of 2027.
For Bastrop shoppers, the next milestone to watch is a store announcement with an opening date and details about departments and services. The plans already establish the scale: a 55,000-square-foot Dick’s intended to become a major new shopping option in the city.