For a decade, Grandscape has functioned as the place North Texans drove to. In 2026 it is turning into the place The Colony residents no longer have to drive from. The openings landing between spring and late fall are not a themed cluster of restaurants or a single anchor tenant. They are, at once, a first-in-Texas fast-food debut, a U.S. flagship for a European entertainment concept, a country-music venue built inside the shell of a rock room, and a 155,000-square-foot warehouse club.
That mix is the story. A destination district usually chases one lane at a time. Grandscape is filling four in the same calendar year, and the effect on how a Colony resident spends a Saturday is more significant than any single ribbon-cutting.
The 2026 Opening Calendar, In Order
Rather than a running list of announcements, here is the sequence a resident is actually going to feel it in:
- TOCA Social, U.S. flagship. Debuting in early March, TOCA Social opened its U.S. flagship at Grandscape, a concept founded by U.S. World Cup veteran Eddie Lewis that blends interactive soccer-inspired gameplay with chef-driven food, craft cocktails and large-scale match viewing.
- The Surf Lounge at PopStroke. On March 5, PopStroke unveiled The Surf Lounge, transforming the former Fireside Surf space into a reimagined open-air social venue that extends the energy of PopStroke's two 18-hole putting courses into a poolside setting.
- The Rustic. The Dallas bar and music venue opens in summer 2026 at 5805 Grandscape Rd., taking over the former Lava Cantina space that had hosted rock shows in its heyday.
- White Castle, first Texas location. The location at 4520 Destination Dr. marks the 105-year-old restaurant's debut in Texas, with a release stating it will open in late fall 2026.
- Costco. Plans call for a 155,000-square-foot warehouse and adjacent gas station at the corner of Spring Creek Parkway and Grandscape Boulevard, with the store expected to open in fall 2026.
Already open and worth putting on the mental map: Mavericks Dance Hall, a 21-plus nightlife destination designed for dancing, live music and late-night socializing; Gashapon BANDAI Official Shop in The Homestead, featuring hundreds of official Bandai Namco capsule machines from franchises including Dragon Ball, Hello Kitty, One Piece and Super Mario; and Fritz's Adventure, which opened its TreeTops zipline course on April 2 alongside extreme slides, underground tunnels, giant treehouses, and a multi-level ropes course.
Why The Mix Matters More Than Any Single Opening
A restaurant opening is a story. A restaurant opening plus a Costco is a shift in daily routing.
The Costco piece is the quiet one, and it is doing the most work. The project was approved by The Colony City Council on Sept. 16, 2025, and officially broke ground in December. A membership warehouse pulls a resident to Grandscape on a Sunday morning for the same reason it pulls them to Prosper or Plano today. Once someone is already there for the toilet paper, the pizza-and-a-round-of-putting decision at 4 p.m. becomes trivial. The compound effect is that entertainment tenants start to see weekday traffic they were not planning on.
That is the frame Grandscape's leadership has been articulating out loud. "The Rustic is a natural addition to Grandscape because it brings together everything our destination is built on — great food, live entertainment and a strong sense of community," said Ryan Blumkin, vice president of Grandscape. "This venue enhances our live music offering and gives guests another reason to stay longer, gather together and experience something memorable every time they visit."
The Rustic Is Inheriting A Stage, Not Building One
Anyone who has lived here long enough to have gone to a show at Lava Cantina will recognize the address before they recognize the name on the marquee. The Rustic is taking over the former Lava Cantina space, which had played host to rock shows and high-energy crowds in its heyday, and which closed in January 2025 for what owners had said would be a "thorough renovation."
That matters because the room already has bones for live music, and The Rustic is arriving with a specific rhythm in mind. Guests can expect wood-grilled, made-from-scratch dishes, daily happy hours, family-style brunch on Saturdays and Sundays, live music five days a week, and the laid-back hospitality that has defined the Uptown Dallas original for more than a decade. Weekend brunch as a permanent fixture, at that scale of venue, has been missing from The Colony's Grandscape side since Lava went dark eighteen months ago.
A Slider-Shaped Test Case
The White Castle opening is worth its own paragraph because it is the closest thing the district has to a genuine cultural event. The groundbreaking on June 2 was executed with fanfare befitting of a restaurant with "Castle" in its name: five White Castle officials, two of whom are fourth-generation members of the founding family, led the festivities alongside The Colony mayor Richard Boyer, elected officials and no shortage of enthusiastic Cravers, complete with spatula-shovels and a ceremonial "sprinkling of the onions."
The physical building tells you what the operator expects the volume to look like. The 3,430-square-foot Colony Castle will feature a double drive-thru with both canopy and patio seating, and the new location is expected to create 70 jobs for local residents. A double drive-thru is what you build when you assume a line. The stretch of the Sam Rayburn Tollway The Colony straddles, bordering Frisco, Lewisville, Plano and Carrollton, is what businesses entering a new market want: millions of people passing by. Residents can be forgiven for treating late fall as the moment to either finally settle a decades-old sliders question or, more practically, to stay off Destination Drive for a week or two.
How The Weekend Actually Shifts
Set aside the ribbon-cuttings and ask what the resident calendar looks like once the dust settles. A Saturday that used to require three separate trips — grocery run in one direction, dinner-and-a-thing in another, kid-friendly outing somewhere else — starts to collapse into a single ZIP code:
- Late morning: Costco run at Spring Creek and Grandscape Boulevard, then coffee.
- Early afternoon: Fritz's Adventure with the kids, or PopStroke's Surf Lounge for the adults, both walkable from the same parking deck.
- Dinner: The Rustic for brunch-and-live-music on weekends, TOCA Social if there is a match worth watching on the big screens, or the Rowdy Cowboy just across SH 121. Rowdy Cowboy opened at 5005 SH 121 #101 near Grandscape on October 24, a second location for the concept that debuted in Grapevine in July 2024.
- Late night: Mavericks Dance Hall for the 21-plus crowd, or Gashapon BANDAI on the way back to the car for anyone with a teenager along.
- Late fall: The White Castle detour, at least once, honestly.
That routing did not exist eighteen months ago. Two of those five stops were still boarded-up boxes.
The Through-Line
If there is a single interpretive claim to leave with, it is this: Grandscape in 2026 is completing the shift from shopping destination to neighborhood commercial core. The tell is not the entertainment slate, which the district has always led with. It is the combination of a members-only warehouse retailer, a first-in-Texas fast-food chain, and a second-generation live-music room — three tenants that only make sense together if the operator has concluded the local base is now dense enough to sustain daily-visit economics.
The Grandscape location is part of a broader expansion push for Costco across North Texas, driven by rapid population growth and continued demand for large-format retail. In 2025 alone, three new Costco locations were announced in Collin County, with new stores in Prosper and Allen already open and a Celina location in the works as part of a large mixed-use development. The Colony's warehouse is the one closest to a full entertainment district, and that is not incidental to how it will be used.
For the resident who bought a home here five years ago on the theory that Grandscape would keep filling in, this is the year the theory pays off in a way the resale comps have not yet caught up to.
If you are thinking about what this shift means for your home's position in the market, or you are watching The Colony from the outside and trying to time an entry, the team at The Agency Frisco | Heather Stevens is watching these blocks the same way you are. Contact us when you would like to talk it through.