When can you actually shop at the Dunham Pointe Whole Foods? For anyone living near Hwy 290 and Mason Road, that's the question behind every headline about the new center. Nobody has published an answer yet, including Whole Foods.
The rest of the project is easier to pin down. Trademark Property Company says construction started in early September on the first 25 acres of a 202,000-square-foot retail and restaurant district in the Dunham Pointe master-planned community. Fourteen tenants have signed leases. Put the public dates for each piece side by side and the center lines up as a sequence that runs through 2027. The first arrivals are small. The grocery anchor is a date still to be set.
Three kinds of dates
Dates for Dunham Pointe come from three kinds of sources, and each kind is reliable in a different way.
- Retailer announcements. A company commits to a season in its own press release. Nordstrom's is the clearest example.
- Developer estimates. Trademark speaks for the project as a whole. These dates are broad and cover many tenants at once.
- State construction filings. Texas requires accessibility registrations with the Department of Licensing and Regulation, and each one lists a construction start and finish. These give the most exact dates, but they're schedules, and schedules move.
The local newsletter Cypress Digest puts it plainly in its running list of what's coming to Cypress: "A state filing is a construction schedule, and construction schedules slide." The project has already slipped once. In March, Community Impact reported that groundbreaking was expected by early summer. Trademark's later update put the start of construction in early September.
So each date below comes with the source it rests on.
The likely order of arrival
- Dunham Pointe Section 15 Park, estimated Nov. 1, 2026. This is a community park, separate from the retail center. Its state filing describes a playground, walking trails, seating areas and open lawn across 32,517 square feet, with construction that started Nov. 3, 2025, and an estimated completion of Nov. 1, 2026. That's the earliest finish date of anything connected to the project, though the filing doesn't give an opening date.
- La La Land Cafe, construction scheduled to finish Dec. 20, 2026. Community Impact reported that a second location of the yellow-and-white coffee chain is planned for 14615 Mason Road, Ste. B2-E, "near Dunham Pointe." The first Cypress location opened at The Boardwalk at Towne Lake in June 2026. The state record lists construction from Sept. 7 to Dec. 20, 2026, and the opening date is still to be announced.
- First retail tenants, "by the end of 2027." A Trademark spokesperson gave Community Impact that estimate in March, before the construction delay. In late September, the Houston Chronicle wrote that other retailers were "slated to open in about a year."
- Nordstrom Rack, fall 2027. This is the firmest date in the project because it comes from the retailer. Nordstrom's announcement gives a fall 2027 target for a 25,000-square-foot store.
- Flower Child, construction scheduled through November 2027. The Chronicle found state filings for a 4,575-square-foot space for the fast-casual chain at a Mason Road address that appears to be inside the project, with construction expected to finish in November 2027.
- Whole Foods Market, no date. The company confirmed the location to the Chronicle and declined to comment further.
Put in order, the next 14 months bring a park and a coffee shop. The shopping center itself mostly arrives in the back half of 2027.
Why the grocery store is the open question
Several details about the Whole Foods are known. According to the Chronicle, Trademark says the store will be 30,000 square feet. Most Whole Foods stores in Houston run 40,000 to 55,000 square feet, so this is a smaller format, closer to a neighborhood grocer than a destination store. The Houston Business Journal calls it the first Whole Foods planned in Greater Houston since 2019. A chain that hasn't announced a new Houston-area store in about seven years picked this intersection.
The timing is what's missing. A grocery anchor has more to build than a gelato counter or a boot shop: refrigeration, loading space, and the parking that the rest of the center depends on. No public filing or announcement lists when that work will be done. Until one does, any month you see attached to this Whole Foods is a guess.
For now, one existing store in the area is Whole Foods Market Champions at 10133 Louetta Road in Houston.
What's signed, grouped by how you'd use it
Trademark's September announcement named 13 signed tenants besides the grocer. Sorted by what you'd go there for, the list looks like a place you'd stop on a weeknight:
- Quick meals: Shake Shack, Pepper Lunch, Pokeworks, Playa Bowls, Ojo de Agua
- Dessert: Amorino Gelato, Milkshake Factory
- Fitness and personal care: Solidcore, LaserAway
- Shopping: Nordstrom Rack, Texas Country Boots, and a national junior fashion anchor Trademark hasn't named
- Services: Fidelity
The same announcement says Trademark is negotiating leases with more than 12 more tenants totaling 65,000 square feet and holds letters of intent from more than 10 other retailers. None of those names have been released. So roughly a third of the center's announced square footage is still under negotiation, and the final mix could change.
Expectations also come from the developer's track record. Trademark built Market Street in The Woodlands, and that comparison runs through the Chronicle's coverage. The plans released so far for Dunham Pointe describe a walkable district. They don't show an event lawn, a central plaza or patio space inside the retail center. The green space with a published date is the Section 15 Park.
Why the shops are following the houses now
The order of arrival makes more sense once you see how many households this center was waiting for. The Chronicle reports that about 850 of a planned 2,500 homes in Dunham Pointe are occupied. Trademark counts it differently, citing more than 1,000 new-home sales since sales began in 2021. One number counts homes with people living in them and the other counts contracts, so both can be accurate. Either way, the community is roughly a third to two-fifths of the way to its planned size five years in.
Cary Dunham of Dunham Pointe Development told the Chronicle that "the pace of home sales has created the critical mass to support that next phase of development." Trademark CEO Terry Montesi explained the timing in the company's release, saying "the market is genuinely undersupplied" after a long stretch of very little new retail construction nationally. Small tenants can open once a building shell is done. A grocery anchor is more of a long-term bet on how many households will live nearby.
The retail center is also only the first non-residential piece of the master plan. Trademark's release says the master developer is under contract or negotiating with developers and users for multifamily housing, townhomes, medical facilities and more commercial space. The Hwy 290 and Mason Road corner will keep changing well after the Nordstrom Rack opens.
If you live nearby, the near-term dates to watch are Nov. 1 for the park and late December for La La Land's construction to wrap up. Fall 2027 is the first season with a firm retail commitment, from Nordstrom Rack.
At The Hightower Team, we keep an eye on what's opening along the 290 corridor because it changes how a street works day to day. If you're wondering how Dunham Pointe's buildout might affect your plans in Cypress, we're glad to talk it through. Contact us anytime.
