Dollar Tree Taking Over Empty Walgreens Building

The discount chain is remodeling the vacant building on the North Side, with work set to begin in January.

Juan Carlos Montoya News Writer
Dollar Tree (Image credit: Dollar Tree Website)

Dollar Tree is planning to open a new store in a former Walgreens on San Antonio’s North Side, with renovation work scheduled to start in mid-January and finish in mid-March 2027. State filings put the cost of the project at about $225,000.

The building is at 10411 West Ave., and the filing covers 13,876 square feet. The work will be privately funded and includes an interior remodel with new finishes and fixtures, plus new rooftop heating and cooling units and a new TPO roof. The filing doesn’t give an opening date.

The building, which dates to 1997, sits on about 1.6 acres and has a drive-thru and roughly 68 parking spaces. A commercial listing, updated this month, offers the space as a sublease.

Dollar Tree is in expansion mode. The company plans to open about 400 stores and close about 75 this fiscal year, according to Quartz. It had 9,382 stores across the U.S. and Canada at the end of its first quarter, after adding 113 locations in those three months. Roughly 5,900 of its stores now use the multi-price format, which lets the chain sell items above its original single price point.

The San Antonio market is part of that push. MySA has reported Dollar Tree moving into shuttered CVS stores across the city, and What Now San Antonio reported in July that the company plans a ground-up store of about 12,000 square feet on the Far West Side at W. Loop 1604 S., with construction slated for this fall.

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Juan Carlos Montoya discovered his love for storytelling through sports, creating social media content in high school before pursuing a bachelor's degree in Journalism in Costa Rica, where he graduated in 2025. Since then, his career has taken him through the halls of Teletica Radio, the biggest mass communication company in Costa Rica, and into the world of digital media as a Social Media Manager for an iGaming platform. Originally from Honduras, Juan Carlos brings a global perspective to every story he tells. He believes that every interview is an opportunity to make a genuine human connection, and that food is one of the most powerful ways to understand a culture and its roots. When he's not tracking down the next big opening in Sacramento or Portland, he's probably watching Football, or planning his next adventure. What Now is his new home, and he's just getting started.
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