Steel Frames and Fresh Footings at Rosamond and 75
Drive south on US-75 through Anna on any weekday morning and the skyline at Rosamond Parkway tells you something has shifted. Steel framing climbs above the tree line at the southeast corner of that intersection, and heavy equipment kicks up caliche dust where flat pasture sat not long ago. What is taking shape is Rosamond Town Center, a retail development that broke ground on June 30, 2026, and has been moving through vertical construction ever since.
The project is a joint effort by Big V Property Group and The Seitz Group. When complete, it will add more than 355,000 square feet of retail space to a stretch of highway that Anna has been quietly positioning as its commercial spine for several years. That figure is not a campus or a cluster of strip centers — it is, by most measures, the largest single retail footprint Anna has seen.
A Kroger Marketplace Anchors the East Side
The anchor drawing the most attention is a Kroger Marketplace store, which began vertical construction in April 2026. Kroger Marketplace stores are larger-format locations that typically combine a full grocery with expanded departments — apparel, home goods, fuel — under one roof. The Anna location is expected to open around April 2027.
Beyond the convenience of a full-service grocery store less than a mile from the growing residential neighborhoods spreading north and east of downtown, the store is projected to bring 250 to 300 new jobs to Anna. For a city whose workforce has largely commuted south to Plano, McKinney, or Dallas, that kind of local employment figure is worth marking.
Sprouts Is Building on the Northwest Corner
Across the highway, at the northwest corner of Rosamond Parkway and US-75, a second grocery option is also under construction. Sprouts Farmers Market broke ground in summer 2026 on a store exceeding 20,000 square feet, with a grand opening projected for summer 2027.
Sprouts occupies a different lane than Kroger — smaller footprint, emphasis on natural and organic products, produce-forward layout — and the two stores arriving within roughly the same year suggests that Anna’s daytime and residential population has reached a density that grocers consider viable. For years, residents drove to McKinney or Frisco for options like this. That calculus is changing.
What the Intersection Already Is, and What It Will Become
Rosamond Parkway and US-75 is not a new commercial node. The intersection already serves as a practical landmark for Anna residents — it is where the high school sits, where existing retail clusters, and where the city’s east-west artery meets the regional highway. Adding a 355,000-square-foot retail center to that corner changes the character of the area substantially.
Anna’s population has grown fast enough over the past decade to support ambitions that once seemed premature. Master-planned subdivisions north of SH-455 and along the city’s outer roads have delivered thousands of new households, and those households have been shopping elsewhere. The Rosamond Town Center project, along with the two grocery anchors, is the most direct answer yet to that gap.
Jobs, Tax Base, and Daily Errands
The practical effects of a development this size ripple in a few directions. The employment numbers from Kroger alone — 250 to 300 positions — represent real opportunity for Anna residents who have faced a thin local job market outside of education and city services. Retail jobs vary widely in hours and pay, but they are accessible entry points and a meaningful addition to the local economy.
For the city’s tax base, sales tax revenue generated inside Anna’s limits stays closer to home. Large-format retail that captures grocery and general merchandise spending keeps those dollars from flowing to Collin County neighbors every week.
And at the level of the everyday errand — the Tuesday evening grocery run, the last-minute pickup before a weekend cookout — having two grocery stores within Anna proper removes a small but regular friction from life in a fast-growing suburb. It sounds mundane. It is also, for anyone who has driven 15 minutes each way just to buy produce, genuinely meaningful.
Still a Construction Site, But Worth Watching
As of early September 2026, Rosamond Town Center is an active job site, not a place to browse. Completion timelines in construction shift, and the April 2027 Kroger target and summer 2027 Sprouts projection should be treated as working goals rather than guarantees.
But the steel is vertical. The footings are poured. The corner of Rosamond and 75 that Anna residents have watched for years is no longer waiting — it is building.
