Katy North Edition | March 2025

BY CARSON WEAVER

The details

Looking ahead

NewQuest didn’t respond to multiple interview requests about Texas Heritage Marketplace. However, according to a brochure on its website, preleasing has begun with a proposed delivery date of its rst buildings in the second quarter of 2026. Hebert said the city has been anticipating I-10’s expansion, and he believes the space between Hwy. 90 and I-10 is the future of Katy’s growth.

drive signicant economic growth for Katy,” Angie Thomason, president and CEO of the Katy Area Economic Development Council, said in an email. Additionally, the city’s Pederson Road project that feeds into Texas Heritage Parkway will cost $3.3 million and add a lane to the road in July. “[These] types of developments ... will prevent people from having to go down I-10 and deal with the trac and the congestion of the existing developments,” Katy Community Development Director Ian Clowes said.

Mobility projects are also planned around the development. A stretch of I-10 near the site will undergo a $320 million expansion beginning in late 2026 that will widen it to 10 lanes, a Texas Depart- ment of Transportation spokesperson said. The average daily trac count on I-10 adjacent to the Texas Heritage Marketplace site rose 8.8% from 2019-23, according to TxDOT data. “Like any transportation project, the I-10 expansion may present temporary challenges, but its long-term infrastructure improvements will

“I think the citizens of Katy are denitely going to be pleased with

Upcoming mobility projects around Texas Heritage

Average daily trac counts on 110

the products that are coming, but I think people in the region are going to be just as satised.” BYRON HEBERT, KATY CITY ADMINISTRATOR

77,247

80K

Pederson Road reconstruction

2855

70,817

70,988

70K

90

71,525

PEDERSON RD.

10

60K

61,049

I-10 expansion

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SOURCES: KATY, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONCOMMUNITY IMPACT

production of

April 25, 2025 7:00 p.m. April 26, 2025

1:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Stafford Civic Center

WEST SIDE STORY SCHOOL EDITION Based on a Conception of JEROME ROBBINS

Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS

Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM

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Entire Original Production Directed and Choreographed by JEROME ROBBINS Originally Produced on Broadway by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince By Arrangement with Roger L. Stevens West Side Story School Edition Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

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