It's called the "city on the grow," and it's definitely living up to the motto. Weslaco, which is centrally located in the Rio Grande Valley, is quickly becoming a hub for development. Whether that means residential growth, new commercial builds, or industrial expansion, there's a lot happening in the Mid-Valley's largest city. Here's everything that is coming to the booming South Texas town.

Crews are currently hard at work building a $46.5 million bulk-buy warehouse for retail giant Sam's Club on the city's east side. The project involves a 168,000-square-foot warehouse and a Sam's Club-branded fueling station on a nearly 22-acre plot of land at the corner of Farm-to-Market Road 1015 and Barbee Drive. MySA visited the construction site earlier this month, where many of the warehouse's exterior walls have already been erected.

The Weslaco Sam's Club will be just the fifth warehouse that the wholly owned subsidiary of Walmart has built in the Valley and the seventh in the border region overall, once factoring in two Sam's Clubs located just across the Rio Grande in Reynosa and Matamoros, Mexico.  The Weslaco Sam's Club is expected to create about 200 jobs. In exchange, Weslaco city leaders approved a $2 million property tax agreement to help entice the company's location decision.

Texas grocery giant H-E-B is investing $4.6 million to renovate its largest location in Weslaco. The store at 310 N. Westgate Dr., Weslaco, TX 78596, is the largest of two H-E-Bs located in the Mid-Valley city. It initially opened in 2000, followed a few years later by a 400,000 warehouse and truck terminal that supplies all the H-E-Bs in the Valley.

Just a block from the Westgate H-E-B, a new $6 million retail plaza is under construction. In October, Weslaco city leaders were joined by Valley- and San Antonio-based developer Garansuay Group Construction to officially break ground on the 5-acre development. According to plans released by the developer, the Shops at Westgate will consist of three 8,260-square-foot buildings at the corner of Westgate Drive and Panther Drive. It's a bustling commercial corridor that already boasts several coffee chains, fast-casual restaurants, a Planet Fitness gym, several clothing retailers, and a movie theater in addition to the H-E-B.

On February 9, developers filed preliminary plans to build a $3.15 million Home2 Suites by Hilton hotel in the same bustling corridor as the Shops at Weslaco and the H-E-B. Construction of the 63,202-square-foot extended-stay hotel is expected to begin in March and be complete by May 2027.

This article originally published at A Texas boomtown is rising fast with these major retail projects.