On January 23, 2026, the corner of Preston Road and Ownsby Parkway had one big store, a Lowe's. By August 26 the same corner had a Home Depot, an Academy Sports + Outdoors, a Costco with its own gas station, and a row of quick-service restaurants. The bulk grocery run, the hardware trip and the cleats-before-practice stop used to mean driving to another city. Now they fit in one parking lot loop on South Preston.
The stores keep different hours, two of them sell the same categories, and the openings still ahead in 2026 and early 2027 add coffee, a burger counter and a tire shop to the stretch between errands.
The corner filled in out of order
You would expect a shopping district to open its biggest anchors first. This one didn't. Here is how the stretch, part of a development called The Crossing at Moore Farm, came together this year.
- January 23: Lowe's held its grand opening at 3540 S. Preston Road after a soft opening on January 15. It is a 107,136-square-foot store with a full lawn and garden center.
- April 15: Torchy's Tacos opened at 3505 S. Preston Road, Suite 120, with a grand-opening promotion CW33 reported offered free queso for a year.
- June and July: Panda Express at 3530 S. Preston Road on June 2, Bojangles at 3615 S. Preston Road on June 23, and Chipotle at 3520 S. Preston Road on July 7.
- August 19 to 26: The Home Depot opened to shoppers at 6 p.m. on August 19 and held its grand opening the next day with 149 employees. Academy Sports + Outdoors opened August 23 at 3525 S. Preston Road, and Costco opened August 26 at 3445 S. Preston Road, according to Community Impact.
So the lunch options were open months before the warehouse club. By the time Costco cut its ribbon, the corner already had places to eat. That order matters for how a Saturday on this corner actually goes.
The road was built for the warehouse
Ownsby Parkway is wide for a reason. Community Impact reported in April 2025 that the city's six-lane Ownsby Parkway project grew out of a 2022 agreement with Costco. Under that agreement the city had to finish construction by the end of 2026. The work wrapped up in January 2025, three months late because of utility relocations.
The access road was ready more than a year before the store it was built for.
Celina's other road projects haven't caught up the same way. Community Impact's October 9 roundup put the First Street widening from the Dallas North Tollway to Coleman Street on a spring 2026 to fall 2027 timeline. It also listed Coit Road work from Vest Lane to Choate Parkway as due in January 2027. NTTA still lists the tollway's Phase 4A extension as opening in late 2027. For now, Preston Road is how most of the city gets to this corner.
Let the gas pump set the start time
Before August, Celina residents drove to Frisco or farther for a Costco, the Celina Current noted. With the warehouse in town, the hours that matter most belong to the pumps. These are the hours posted on Costco's Celina warehouse page.
| Day | Gas station | Executive members | Gold Star and Business members |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday to Friday | 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. | 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. | 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. |
| Saturday | 6 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. | 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. | 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. |
| Sunday | 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. | 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. | 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
On a Saturday the pumps open three hours before the earliest warehouse hour. Filling up first, then stopping at a hardware store or Academy, gets you to the warehouse doors close to opening. On Sundays the pumps close 90 minutes after the warehouse does, so an evening fill-up still works after a late grocery run.
Hours change, so check the warehouse page before a holiday weekend.
Two hardware stores on one corner
Celina went from no big-box home improvement store to two of them in the same development in about seven months. Lowe's sits at 3540 S. Preston Road. The Home Depot is in the 3200 block of South Preston. Community Impact lists its address as 3245, while Home Depot's corporate announcement gives 3234, so use the store name when you enter it into a map app.
For a weekend project, having both close by changes how you plan. If one store is out of a specific tile, fixture or bag of mulch, the other is a short drive across the same development.
The stores also offer different services. Home Depot's announcement for the Celina store lists specialty showrooms, an expanded garden center, storage for buy-online-pickup-in-store orders, and full-service tool rental with pro-grade equipment. It also lists a dedicated Pro team and AI-powered blueprint takeoffs for contractors. Tool rental is the one homeowners are most likely to use. A floor sander or tile saw for a weekend job used to mean a longer drive. Now you can pick it up within sight of where you buy the materials.
Lowe's has a full lawn and garden center of its own, so this fall Celina has two garden centers on the same corner.
The fall planting run and the watering rules
Fall is when a lot of North Texas homeowners replace what the summer killed, and both garden centers are stocked for it. Check the water rules before you load the cart.
Community Impact reported on September 16 that Celina's Stage 2 water conservation measures, in effect since July 2, were still in force. Under Stage 2, automatic irrigation was limited to one day a week, watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. was not allowed, and wasteful water activities were prohibited. In that report, city officials said they hoped to lift Stage 2 in late September or early October.
Before a big planting weekend, check which stage the City of Celina has in place. This is general information, not legal advice, and the city's current notice is the rule that applies to your address.
What fills in next
Of the openings still ahead near the corner, one is a service stop and the rest give you places to sit down between errands.
- Discount Tire, 4250 S. Preston Road. Community Impact reported October 13 that it was tentatively expected to open in November 2026. Tire rotations and flat repairs will join gas and groceries on the same stretch of road.
- Five Guys, Black Rock Coffee and Total Care ER, 3625 S. Preston Road. All three are in one building, in Suites 100, 130 and 110. Each is projected to open in the first quarter of 2027. Five Guys' location page still lists the Ownsby Parkway store as coming soon. Black Rock would be the corner's first dedicated coffee stop, the kind of place you sit down between the warehouse and the garden center.
- EōS Fitness on Ownsby Parkway. Community Impact reported in July that the gym moved its opening to 2027. Community Impact lists the address as 200 W. Ownsby Parkway, while the company's page lists 315 E. Ownsby Parkway.
Separately, Dallas Business Journal reported that Walmart bought a 41-acre site in Legacy Hills for a possible second Celina store.
The opening dates above are projections and may move.
When we talk with families planning a move to Celina, the first questions are usually about daily logistics, like where the weekly shopping happens and how long a hardware run takes. If you want to know how this corner and the other new pieces of south Celina fit into daily life in a particular neighborhood, Go To Texas Team is glad to walk through it with you. Begin Your Relocation Journey.
