For a decade, Grandscape has felt like a destination you drive to. You'd cross Sam Rayburn, park near Scheels, and treat the whole 433-acre stretch as one big Saturday errand. That's changing this fall, and the change is bigger than any single ribbon-cutting. The Colony is quietly assembling the missing pieces of an actual entertainment district: nightlife you can walk between, a warehouse retailer that turns "date night" into "date night plus a grocery run," and a city calendar that still keeps the lake at the center of things.
Here's what's opening, what just opened, and how to build a fall weekend around it without leaving town.
The piece Grandscape has been missing
Every mixed-use development in North Texas wants to be a place where people linger. The Colony's version has been long on entertainment anchors, NFM, Scheels, Andretti Indoor Karting, PopStroke, Fritz's Adventure, and short on the boring, high-frequency errands that pull the same person back three times a week.
That's the shift this fall. Costco is under construction along Sam Rayburn Tollway at West Spring Creek Road with a projected opening in fall 2026, per reporting by Local Profile. Plans call for a 155,000-square-foot warehouse and an adjacent Costco gas station at the corner of Spring Creek Parkway and Grandscape Boulevard, approved by The Colony City Council on Sept. 16, 2025, with a groundbreaking in December. Read against Grandscape's existing tenant mix, that's the practical anchor the district hasn't had. The same drive that used to mean "we're going out" starts to mean "we're going home by way of Grandscape."
The nightlife side is filling in at the same time. Mavericks Dance Hall is already open as a 21-plus venue built for dancing and late-night socializing. TOCA Social, the soccer-themed venue founded by U.S. World Cup veteran Eddie Lewis, opened its U.S. flagship at Grandscape earlier this year. PopStroke replaced its old Fireside Surf space with The Surf Lounge, an open-air, poolside social venue that extends the energy of its two 18-hole putting courses.
And then there's The Rustic. The Uptown Dallas live-music mainstay is opening a second location this summer at 5805 Grandscape Blvd., taking over what used to be Lava Cantina. Kyle Noonan, co-owner and CEO of parent company FreeRange Concepts, described the project as taking a venue with an existing heartbeat and giving it a new rhythm built around Americana music, regional dining, and a casual atmosphere. The Rustic's Uptown location has been open since 2013, and the new Grandscape site will run the same playbook: wood-grilled food, family-style weekend brunch, and live music five days a week.
If you stack these openings on a timeline, the pattern is obvious.
| Venue | What it is | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| TOCA Social | Soccer-themed gameplay, food, cocktails | Open (early March 2026) |
| PopStroke Surf Lounge | Open-air poolside lounge | Open (March 5, 2026) |
| Mavericks Dance Hall | 21+ dancing and live music | Now open |
| Gashapon BANDAI Official Shop | Japanese capsule-toy retail | Now open in The Homestead |
| The Rustic | Live music venue and restaurant | Summer 2026 |
| Costco | 155,000 sq ft warehouse + gas | Fall 2026 |
Six openings in a single calendar year, three of them nightlife, one of them a Costco. That's not a shopping center adding a tenant. That's a district finding its shape.
The one nobody expected
The Gashapon BANDAI Official Shop is worth its own paragraph. Now open in The Homestead section of Grandscape, it stocks hundreds of official Bandai Namco Gashapon capsule machines with collectibles from Dragon Ball, Sanrio, Hello Kitty, One Piece, Demon Slayer, and Super Mario. Thousands of new items rotate through annually. It's the kind of tenant that doesn't fit a spreadsheet, and it's the kind that makes a place feel less like a lifestyle center and more like a neighborhood. Kids drag parents in. Parents come back without the kids. Nobody was asking for it, which is exactly why it works.
A Saturday you can actually plan
Here's the practical version. If you already live off Main, Paige, or anywhere along the North Colony corridor, this is how the fall shakes out on a given weekend.
Morning at the lake
Stewart Creek Park at 3700 Sparks Rd. is running Family Fright Fest on Saturday, October 24, 2026, from 3 to 7 p.m. The city lists it as free for Park Annual Pass holders and $15 per vehicle otherwise. Hayrides, trick-or-treating, a costume contest with categories for every age, food trucks. It's the version of a fall festival that doesn't require driving to Dallas or Frisco.
Before that, or on any other weekend, the shoreline is still doing the heavy lifting. The city's own branding leans on the 23 miles of Lewisville Lake shoreline that give The Colony its "City by the Lake" nickname, and Stewart Creek Park is the anchor for most of the seasonal programming.
Afternoon in the district
Costco won't be open for the earliest weekends of fall, but by the time the season turns cold the everyday-shopping math changes. Until then, PopStroke's two 18-hole courses and the new Surf Lounge give you a version of "we should go do something" that doesn't require an itinerary. Fritz's Adventure Park added its TreeTops zipline earlier this year with indoor and outdoor loops, extreme slides, tunnels, and a multi-level ropes course. It's not designed for adults to sit and watch, which is the point.
For a quieter afternoon, Galaxy Theatres at Grandscape hosts Cinema Nights, the rebranded version of the city's old Movies in the Park series. Admission is free, the seats are the theatre's normal luxury recliners, and concessions are available for purchase. It runs on rotating dates through the year.
Evening and after
This is the part that didn't exist two years ago.
The Rustic opens this summer with a nightly lineup of local musicians and daily happy hours. TOCA Social keeps its kitchen going late alongside its interactive soccer bays. Mavericks Dance Hall is the 21-plus option for people who want the country dance hall experience without driving to Fort Worth. And if you want a lower-key close, the Ferris wheel inside Scheels still runs, and it's still the best sunset in The Colony that doesn't involve boat access.
Six openings in a single calendar year, three of them nightlife, one of them a Costco. That's not a shopping center adding a tenant. That's a district finding its shape.
The city calendar is still doing real work
Grandscape gets the headlines. The city's own event roster is what keeps The Colony from feeling like a suburb of its own retail development.
The dates worth putting on the fridge:
- September, Hawaiian Waters Waterpark: Bow Wow Luau, 1 to 5 p.m., with doggie swims, contests, and games. A portion of proceeds benefits The Colony Animal Shelter Injured Animal Fund.
- Saturday, October 24, Stewart Creek Park: Family Fright Fest, 3 to 7 p.m.
- Saturday, November 14, The Athletic Club: the annual American Heroes festival honoring veterans and first responders, with carnival rides, a concert series, food trucks, and a drone show.
Then the Christmas Spectacular light and music show kicks off later in the season and runs every evening through January.
The Colony Public Library at 6800 Main Street also runs programming most residents underuse. Spice Club kits, story times, a virtual author event with Karin Slaughter about her North Falls series, and a talk with Brady D. Lund, UNT information science professor and 2026 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Professorship, on how human beliefs about AI shape how the technology gets built.
None of these are new in a headline sense. What's new is the context they sit in. A resident's fall weekend used to be "lake, then errands, then dinner somewhere in Frisco." This year, dinner and the show can both be in The Colony, and the errands come with a Costco receipt.
What this means if you already live here
If you own a home in The Colony, the concrete change is walkability inside Grandscape and a broader mix of reasons to be there. If you own a home along the corridors that feed Sam Rayburn, Spring Creek Parkway, Grandscape Boulevard, Main Street, the practical change is more evening traffic and more Saturday-morning traffic once Costco opens. Both are the kind of thing that shows up in how the neighborhood feels day to day, long before it shows up anywhere else.
The Grandscape spokesperson quoted by Local Profile said the team is "very excited about Costco coming to Grandscape," and the timing lines up with the broader Costco push through Collin County. Three Costco locations were announced in 2025 across the county, with the Prosper and Allen stores already open and a Celina location on the way as part of a mixed-use development. The Colony's slot in that rollout matters because it's the only one paired with an existing entertainment district of this scale.
Ready to plan around it?
Whether you're deciding which fall Saturday to block off, or you're thinking about how the district's growth might affect a home you already own on the west side of The Colony, Ohlig Group is happy to talk it through. We live and work in these neighborhoods, and we watch how each of these openings reshapes the parts of the map our clients actually care about. Book an appointment when you're ready.