Groundbreaking Complete!
We Asked People to Show Up on a 100-Degree Day. Over 100 of Them Did.
The shovel ceremony at The Roundabout drew a real crowd, and they brought their appetite for popsicles, cold brew, and egg rolls with them.
On September 8, we held the shovel ceremony for The Roundabout at 1141 RR 967. Right next to the three vintage cabooses staying on-site, headed for a future venue here. It was hot. The kind of hot where you sweat through your shirt just standing still holding a shovel for photos. Over 100 people showed up anyway. Not a polite showing where a few staffers stand around for a photo op. The mayor was there. The city manager was there. So were the heads of the EDC and the Chamber, plus a good chunk of the city council. That doesn’t happen by accident, and it doesn’t happen for a strip center.
Mayor Lee Urbanovsky. City Manager Micah Grau. Jennifer Storm, CEO of the Buda Economic Development Corporation. Monica Davidson, Executive Director of the Greater Buda Chamber of Commerce. All there. When I say this project has been a community collaboration from day one, I mean the people who run this city treat it that way. Not just the ones who write the press releases.
The part that actually got me was the tenants. These are businesses that haven’t opened a single door at The Roundabout yet, and they showed up to work the crowd like it was already theirs. La Ola Pop Shop handed out popsicles, which on a day like that was less a nice gesture and more a public service. Trianon Coffee kept the cold brew coming. Kai Nail Salon brought Vietnamese egg rolls, and I’ll be honest, I went back for seconds. Mary Elise Jewelry set up a table showing off jewelry design and ran giveaways all afternoon. Nobody asked them to turn it into a block party. They just did.
We broke ground on this thing quietly a few months back. By the time we did the shovel photos, the work is already underway. This was never about marking the literal start. It was about marking it together, in public, with the people who’ll actually use the place once it’s built.
Eighteen acres. Nine buildings. 64,000 square feet of retail, dining, and entertainment, a mile from downtown Buda. Over half already leased. Close to 9,000 homes surrounding the site. The dirt is moving. The people showed up. Now we build it.
If you were there, thanks for showing up and sweating through it with us. If you weren’t, come by and see the site for yourself, and if you’re a business owner who wants in on what’s next here, reach out. We’d love to talk.