Convenience Big Store: Following Manvel's rapid growth and what to expect in 2024

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Manvel is exploding in growth. Learn about the upcoming projects, new leaders in the city.

It's difficult to keep up with all the new infrastructure and schools on the horizon for Manvel. The city has seen a growth rate of 60 percent in the last year as more than 6,000 people have moved in since 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The city's new Town Center development is exciting for Manvel residents, especially because it includes a new H-E-B that anchors the commercial property.

I attended the grand opening of the H-E-B and several customers expressed their excitement as they shimmied to music from a DJ with their large shopping carts.

But that's not the only development planned in Manvel.

Here's everything you need to know about what to expect in Manvel for the upcoming year including housing developments, new businesses coming to the Manvel Town Center, new leadership, schools and more.

If you hear of new businesses opening or developments in northern Brazoria County, I want to hear from you, the readers! My inbox is always open for you.

Pooja Bhakta, Pearland reporter

pooja.bhakta@houstonchronicle.com

Growing Pearland

Manvel Town Center, a development of Weitzman anchored by a 108,000-square-foot H-E-B store, will open the first phase in 2023. The project spans 273 acres at the northwest corner of Texas 288 and Texas 6 in Manvel. The aerial photo was taken in mid-August 2023.

Photo by: Weitzman

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Need to Know

Roni Dean Burren, Houston-area activist and educator, died Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, after a battle with cancer.

Photo by: Courtesy Of Family

Houston area mourns loss of activist, Pearland educator Roni Dean Burren.

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Education

International Leadership of Texas is slated to open its first Pearland K-8 free public charter in Aug. 2024.

Photo by: Courtesy Of International Leadership Of Texas

Pearland's new charter school ILTexas taking applications.

Here's what to know about the new International Leadership of Texas' K-8 free public charter school that is opening in Pearland.

Openings and Closings

Wrap and Roll, a new Asian-Mexican fusion restaurant, opened a location at 8209 Broadway in Pearland.

The restaurant offers tacos, vermicelli bowls, burritos, lettuce wraps and more.

Shout out

Congrats to Travis Thames from Dawson High School for being named Houston Chronicle's All-Greater Houston Boys Athlete of the Year for water polo!

One last thing …

Some Latino parents respond inaccurately to surveys measuring food insecurity nationwide, potentially skewing results of the annual reviews for one of the fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States, researchers from Texas State University and other colleges found.