When is the new shopping center at Aspen and Tucson actually going to be finished? Since Sept. 11, 2026, part of the answer is now. The rest depends on dates that three retailers, a handful of unnamed restaurant and pad tenants, and one road contractor haven't announced yet.
Hackberry Market is opening store by store, and the roads around it are being rebuilt in their own sequence. The City of Broken Arrow's most recent published plan puts a 10-month widening of Aspen Avenue right after the intersection work. For anyone who drives Aspen between Tucson and Jasper every day, the corner will likely keep changing in pieces well into 2027.
One store is open so far
Hobby Lobby opened its store at 6081 S. Aspen Avenue on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, according to the Hobby Lobby newsroom. It's a 55,000-square-foot building, and the company says it's the chain's 29th location in Oklahoma. When News On 6 listed the planned anchors in July 2025, it described this one as "a second Hobby Lobby" for Broken Arrow. That means the south side now has its own craft and home-decor store instead of a trip across town.
Plan around the hours. The store is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and closed on Sundays. If you're thinking of a weekend run for picture frames or fall decor, Saturday is the only weekend day it's open.
Hobby Lobby is one tenant in a much bigger project. The City of Broken Arrow describes Hackberry Market as a 211,000-square-foot retail development on more than 30 acres at the northeast corner of Aspen Avenue and Tucson Street. Construction started Aug. 7, 2025. So the store that's open now covers roughly a quarter of the planned square footage.
Who else is coming, and what's confirmed
The city's August 2025 announcement named four committed retailers. Here's how each one stands as of Oct. 11, 2026, based on public announcements:
| Tenant | What's public as of Oct. 11, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hobby Lobby | Opened Sept. 11, 2026 at 6081 S. Aspen Ave. |
| Home Depot | Committed tenant; no opening date announced by the company or the city |
| TJ Maxx | Committed tenant; no opening date announced |
| Burlington | Committed tenant; no opening date announced |
| Two full-service restaurants | In the plan; not yet named |
| Five outparcels | About 22,000 sq. ft. expected for retail and food uses; no tenants named |
The most recent public timeline is from April 2026. In a city progress update reported by FOX23, Hackberry Market was expected to open in "late 2026," with Home Depot, Hobby Lobby, TJ Maxx and Burlington listed together. That was a forecast for the whole center. With one anchor open in September and three still unscheduled, the stores are clearly arriving one at a time.
The restaurants are the biggest unknown for anyone hoping for a new sit-down dinner spot close to home. The Broken Arrow Sentinel reported that the plan includes five outparcels totaling about 22,000 square feet for expected retail and food-service uses. None of those tenants have been named publicly.
Hackberry Market also isn't starting from scratch. It sits next to an established stretch of south Broken Arrow retail near the Shops at Aspen Creek, where Walmart, Reasor's, Warren Theatre, Chick-fil-A and Starbucks already draw traffic. Each new opening adds trips to a corridor that's already busy, and that's why the road schedule matters.
The intersections came first
The city started rebuilding the Aspen corridor before most of the stores were ready. The work began underground. In June 2025, the city's council recap said a medium-pressure gas line had to be relocated before the Aspen and Tucson widening could begin.
By April 2026, the city was reporting lane closures as crews expanded the south and west legs of the Aspen and Tucson intersection to five lanes, matching the north and east legs. A July 9 update said crews were finishing stamped concrete and starting sidewalk work at that corner, with work also underway a mile south at Aspen and Jasper.
The city's Aug. 13, 2026 transportation bulletin is the latest detailed status published, and it lays out the order of work:
- Aspen and Tucson: Diversified Contractors had almost finished. The last task was installing a signal pole on the southwest corner, and the pole was scheduled to arrive in September.
- Aspen and Jasper: Paragon Contractors was close to finishing phase one of a three-phase project. Crews were paving the southeast corner in concrete, with asphalt and then the center section to follow.
- Both intersections: Expected to be finished in late September.
- Aspen between Jasper and Tucson: Widening of that one-mile stretch would begin after the intersections were done.
That late-September finish was a projection made in August. The city hasn't published a newer update confirming that the signal pole went in or that both intersections are complete. The city's traffic notices page links to an interactive map of active construction zones, and that map is the best way to check the corner on any given day.
The next mile is the longer project
The intersections were the short phase. The longer one is the stretch of Aspen in between.
On Aug. 3, the City Council approved a $4.7 million contract with Cherokee Pride Construction to widen Aspen Avenue to five lanes between Jasper and Tucson. According to the city's bulletin, the project adds a new sidewalk, driveway returns, storm sewer, waterline, signage and striping, and the contract timeline is 10 months. The council file lists the lowest responsible bid at $4,781,011.15 and calls the work Phase 3, a rehabilitation and widening of the corridor.
If the widening starts this fall, as the August bulletin suggested, a 10-month contract runs into summer 2027. Hackberry Market's remaining anchors are expected sometime around the end of 2026, so the stores that haven't opened yet will likely do so while the mile of Aspen south of them is still under construction. The city hasn't published a start date for the widening. Until it does, the summer 2027 estimate is just the contract length counted forward from the timing the city gave in August.
Tucson Street is being designed around the new retail
The same planning is reaching Tucson Street. In its Aug. 19, 2026 council recap, the city said engineering is moving forward on Tucson from Olive toward Aspen. The design calls for four lanes from Olive to about 1,200 feet west of Aspen and five lanes on that eastern 1,200 feet, and the city gave nearby commercial development as the reason for the extra lane.
So the shopping corner is shaping the road design in two directions. Aspen is getting five lanes south of the center, and the last stretch of Tucson before Aspen is planned one lane wider than the rest. The Tucson project is still in engineering, and no construction dates have been announced.
What hasn't been announced yet
Several dates are still open as of Oct. 11, 2026:
- Home Depot, TJ Maxx and Burlington opening dates. None of the three companies or the city has announced a date. An opening date for Home Depot is circulating online, but it doesn't come from the company or the city.
- The two full-service restaurants. They're in the plan but haven't been named.
- Outparcel tenants. The roughly 22,000 square feet planned for retail and food service hasn't been assigned publicly.
- Intersection completion. The latest city update projected late September for Aspen at Tucson and at Jasper, and nothing published since has confirmed it.
- Aspen widening start date. The contract has been awarded with a 10-month timeline, but the city hasn't published when the work begins.
The Hobby Lobby newsroom and the City of Broken Arrow's news page have been the most reliable places for confirmed dates so far. The other anchors will probably announce their openings the same way.
I'm Joanna Ford, and I've watched south Broken Arrow grow for more than 20 years. If you live near Aspen and Tucson and want to talk about how the new stores and the coming roadwork could affect your street, your commute or a future sale, I'm glad to go through it with you. Let's Connect.
