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2026: Today, September 2026

The same names, side by side: a grocery on the square in 1928, a groundbreaking in 2026.

Trade and industry

Tyler City SquareOakwood CemeteryGoodman-LeGrand HouseNear the ordnance plantCamp FordSmith County Jail (1881)St. James C.M.E. ChurchMarvin Methodist ChurchTexas CollegeCarnegie LibraryCotton Belt DepotBergfeld ParkThe 1910 courthouse (site)Black Wall Street (210 E. Erwin)Tyler Junior CollegeLiberty HallPeople’s National Bank BuildingU.S. Post Office and CourthouseBlackstone BuildingTyler Rose GardenLincoln ParkRose StadiumTyler Civic TheatreSmith County CourthouseUT TylerTyler Museum of ArtBroadway Square Mall
What the sources put on the map by 2026, over today’s streets.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The record

  1. September 1, 1928

    Wood T. Brookshire opens a 2,500-square-foot grocery on the downtown Tyler courthouse square. It is the start of Brookshire Grocery Co.1

  2. July 9, 2026

    Brookshire’s breaks ground on a $17 million, roughly 58,467-square-foot store at 3765 Earl Campbell Parkway in west Tyler, with a full-service Stanley’s. It is expected to be complete by fall 2027.2

  3. Fall 2026

    TJC enrolls a record 13,147 students, in its 100th year.3

  4. Fall 2026

    UT Tyler’s preliminary enrollment is a record 11,701 students.4

  5. 2026

    New retail is planned on South Broadway near The Village at Cumberland Park, including a BJ’s Wholesale Club at 8667 S. Broadway and a Dave & Buster’s at 8930 S. Broadway. Neither had announced an opening date as of September 29, 2026.5

A picture

Brick-paved downtown street with the vertical TYLER theater sign
A brick-paved downtown street, March 2016.Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), via FlickrPaul Sableman

Notes

  1. Brookshire's: About us (brookshires.com); Tyler Economic Development Council: Success in Tyler, Brookshire Grocery Company (tedc.org); Handbook of Texas: Brookshire Grocery Company (tshaonline.org). The store count is undated ("today"); re-check. Research notes

  2. Tyler Morning Telegraph, 2026-07-10: Brookshire's Breaks Ground on New Store in West Tyler Featuring a Full Service Stanley's Famous Pit Barbecue (tylerpaper.com). Research notes

  3. Tyler Morning Telegraph, 2026-09-13: Record Breaking TJC Enrollment Adds to Centennial Celebration (tylerpaper.com). Research notes

  4. Handbook of Texas: University of Texas at Tyler (tshaonline.org); Gilmer Mirror, 2026-09-14: UT Tyler Fall Enrollment Continues Growth Trend (gilmermirror.com); UT Tyler: At a glance (uttyler.edu). Enrollment is preliminary. Research notes

  5. Tyler Morning Telegraph, 2026-05-13: Business Beats Denny's and Local Seafood Restaurant Coming to Tyler BJ's Development Progresses as Work Stalled at Dave & Buster's (tylerpaper.com); KLTV, 2026-08-21: BJ's Wholesale Club Bring Up 150 Jobs with Planned Tyler Expansion (kltv.com); Mix 93.1: Dave & Buster's Tyler construction (mix931fm.com). Neither had announced an opening date as of the research check (2026-09-29). Research notes

About this plate

  • Everything dated 2026 is as of September 29, 2026, when the facts were last checked. Re-check before you rely on it.
  • The faint linework is today’s map, from OpenStreetMap. How the map is made.