What's Opening in Fulshear FM 1093 This Fall?
August 6, 2026
August 6, 2026
On June 8, the Xscape Theatre on FM 1093 went dark for good. If you had a Tuesday-night matinee habit or a rainy-Saturday backup plan for the kids, you already know. What most residents have not yet clocked is that Xscape's closure was not an ending. It was the loudest signal in a much quieter reorganization of the corridor you drive every day.
Between roughly August and December of this year, three commercial nodes along FM 1093 are going to finish coming into focus, and two road projects are going to change which of them you actually reach without a detour. Here is what is landing, where, and what to file away for later.
The property has been acquired by EVO Entertainment, which plans to keep about half of the venue as a movie theater with seven screens instead of the previous twelve, and to build two EVX premium-format auditoriums more than 70 feet wide, featuring Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos technology. The rest is bowling and arcade. The full 70,000-square-foot rebuild is targeted for summer 2027, so this fall you will see construction hoarding, not a grand opening.
Two things are worth sitting with. First, this is a company that now builds only mixed-entertainment centers rather than traditional movie theaters, so the site is being repositioned away from a film-only draw and toward a Friday-night destination that competes with what Katy residents currently drive to LaCenterra for. Second, it locks in one corner of FM 1093 as an entertainment anchor at a moment when three other corners are being reserved for something else.
If you have driven Skyline in the last six months you have probably noticed the pace. The short stretch near the southern end of Cross Creek Ranch has picked up enough tenants in a row that it now reads as its own micro-district rather than a scattered set of leases.
Read the list together and a pattern shows up. Three of these tenants — Memorial Hermann, School of Rock, and Acai Brasil, all cluster along Skyline Drive near Cross Creek Ranch, which is quietly becoming one of Fulshear's busier commercial corridors. It is a services and family-daytime block, not an evening-out block. That distinction matters when you are deciding which corner of Fulshear to run your Saturday morning through.
A little further west, at the northeast corner of FM 1093 and Fulshear School Way, XAG Group is building Fulshear Lakes Town Center, which is being positioned as Fulshear's first true town center. Under construction now, it is part of the broader Fulshear Lakes development, and the town center will feature four multi-tenant buildings offering between 1,400 and 45,000 square feet of retail space, which will be available for lease.
The interesting number is not the square footage. It is the tenant mix the developer is chasing. Upon completion the center is planned for about 20 to 25 tenants, with the development company in the final stages of negotiations with a medical facility, a restaurant group and a yoga center to join the center. A medical anchor plus a yoga anchor is a specific kind of bet. It is the same daytime-services logic that Skyline Drive is already executing, one node west. If both nodes fill in as planned, Fulshear will end up with two parallel service clusters roughly two miles apart, which is a legitimately different everyday-life shape than the single-stripe FM 1093 that existed a few years ago.
Further east, at the intersection of FM 1093 and Texas Heritage Parkway, Fulshear Central is the 23-acre, 125,000-square-foot mixed-use project by Janapriya Upscale USA that was originally reported as opening in early 2026. If you have been waiting for it to feel finished, you are not imagining things. The public schedule has quietly shifted.
The "early 2026" line that ran in CultureMap and elsewhere has been superseded by a phased schedule from fall 2026 to fall 2027, with offices arriving first and retail, restaurant, and hotel space following.
Two data points anchor how real the project actually is despite the slip. As of mid-2025, 18 of the 44 planned office condos had already sold, which is a strong pre-sale ratio and probably the most concrete signal that the project rests on a real footing rather than rendered optimism. And the retail side is still open. As of this spring, there was not a single publicly announced retail or restaurant tenant for Fulshear Central. What that means for a resident: if you have opinions about what should go in there, this is the six-month window in which they are still assembling the tenant mix.
One infrastructure detail buried in the project is worth flagging for anyone who lives off McKinnon Road. A new connector road from FM 1093 to McKinnon Road is planned along the project's south side, which will materially change local traffic patterns.
The fourth node is younger. Two miles from Cross Creek West, at 30200 FM 1093, Founders Hill Retail Center is a Main Street Commercial Partners project. It is a 33-acre mixed-use hub combining retail, dining, entertainment, office, shaded courtyards, bike-friendly walkways and five acres of greenspace, expected to be ready for tenants in late summer 2026. Whether it lands on that window or slips the way Fulshear Central did is the thing to watch through year-end.
Here is the piece that ties the openings together. Almost every conversation about Fulshear commercial growth skips the two infrastructure projects that determine how you get to any of it.
The Westpark Tollway extension is expected to open to Charger Way by August 2026, which will significantly improve commute times to downtown Houston and enhance the community's connectivity. Practically, that means the Texas Heritage Parkway intersection stops being a dead-end on the west side of Fulshear and starts being a genuine gateway. Fulshear Central is sitting exactly on that gateway, which is a large part of why the developer is willing to phase the project out to fall 2027 rather than compress it.
The FM 1463 widening to four lanes is currently scheduled for completion in late 2026. That is the road that connects the Skyline Drive services cluster to I-10 and the northern Katy retail corridor. When it finishes, the Skyline node stops being a Cross Creek Ranch amenity and starts being reachable from the whole north-Katy side of the market.
The tollway opens the eastern gate. The 1463 widening opens the northern gate. Both are on 2026 calendars. A year from now, the corridor will look the same on a map and feel materially different to drive.
Fulshear residents get asked all the time whether the town is "still growing." That is not really the interesting question anymore. The interesting question is which three or four intersections are absorbing that growth and how the ordinary weeknight is going to reshape around them. Between now and Christmas, most of that answer becomes visible.
If you are thinking through what any of this means for a home you already own here, or one you are watching, Kellye Casey is happy to talk through the corridor with you. Let's connect.
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