Dick's Sporting Goods Just Cut the Ribbon on Its First-Ever Texas Facility

Its sixth distribution center nationwide, built by Hillwood on an 89.5-acre site in south Fort Worth, will move product to more than 100 stores across several states.

Landlord Ledger Publications • Profile • 2026-08-20

Dameyon King has no trouble hitting his step count these days. As a material handler inside Dick's Sporting Goods' newly opened 800,000-square-foot distribution center in south Fort Worth, he logged 7 miles in a single shift, well past the 10,000-step guideline most health professionals recommend. The warehouse he is walking is enormous by design: a cavernous, next-generation facility that officially opened April 20, 2026, and that will eventually route product to more than 100 Dick's stores across several states. It is the retailer's sixth distribution center nationwide and its first ever in Texas, a milestone two years in the making and one that lands the company squarely inside one of the hottest industrial real estate corridors in the country.

A Sixth Distribution Center, A First for Texas

Dick's first announced the project in August 2024, when the Pittsburgh-based retailer said it would construct an 800,000-square-foot regional distribution center on an 89.5-acre site at Risinger Road and Old Burleson Road in south Fort Worth. The site sits inside Hillwood's Risinger/35 Logistics Park, a development along the Interstate 35 West corridor built by the same AllianceTexas developer behind the 27,000-acre master-planned district in north Fort Worth. Hillwood Construction Services broke ground that October in a ceremony where Sean Whitehouse, Dick's senior vice president of supply chain, told local business leaders the company had taken its time choosing a location before settling on Fort Worth for its workforce and its proximity to the retailer's expanding Texas footprint. Public filings put the construction cost at roughly $98 million.

Eighteen months later, the finished building stands as the third-largest in Dick's national network, joining existing centers in Atlanta, Georgia; Conklin, New York; Goodyear, Arizona; Plainfield, Indiana; and Smithton, Pennsylvania. GSR Andrade Architects designed the warehouse, and its entrance carries a playful signature: the bollards guarding the front doors are shaped like a soccer ball, a baseball, a golf ball and a basketball. Inside, a Honeywell conveyor system threads through the open floor plan, the mechanical backbone that will eventually carry inventory from receiving dock to outbound truck without much need for the kind of mileage King is currently logging on foot.

Built for a State That Keeps Growing

The facility currently employs about 150 people, a number Whitehouse expects to roughly double, to around 300, as operations ramp toward full capacity, matching the original 10-year jobs projection tied to the 2024 announcement. Dick's already operates 10 stores in Fort Worth and 11 in Dallas, and Whitehouse has said the company expects further growth in both. Part of that growth is riding on a newer format: Dick's House of Sport, the retailer's larger-format, experience-driven concept, recently opened at The Parks Mall in Arlington, and Whitehouse said the company plans to open more of them in the region after what he described as strong early customer feedback.

The distribution center also arrives as Dick's digests its largest acquisition to date. The company closed its roughly $2.5 billion purchase of Foot Locker in September 2025, a deal that pushed full-year consolidated sales to $17.2 billion, up 28.1 percent year over year, and gave Dick's a footwear-focused chain and an international footprint for the first time. First-quarter fiscal 2026 sales climbed 62.7 percent year over year to $5.16 billion on the strength of that combination. A single Fort Worth warehouse will not move that scale of business on its own, but it is a concrete supply-chain investment behind a company whose Texas ambitions now span two banners rather than one.

Neighbors in a Fast-Filling Park

Dick's did not pick an empty field. Its new neighbors inside the Risinger/35 Logistics Park include an existing Amazon warehouse and a Continental Tire distribution center slated to open later this year, a roughly 752,000-square-foot, $69 million facility that will become the German tire maker's first fully owned U.S. distribution hub, with room to store more than 800,000 tires. Both of those projects, like the Dick's building, were developed by Hillwood. Reid Goetz, senior vice president of Hillwood, called the Dick's partnership a chance to deliver a next-generation distribution facility for what he described as a best-in-class retail brand.

The park itself is nearly full. Bill Burton, Hillwood's executive vice president of marketing and development, said the firm does not currently have more land available in that stretch of south Fort Worth and is looking for room to expand. Ross Perot Jr., Hillwood's chairman, has framed the Dick's building as evidence of broader momentum in the submarket: "There's so much growth here that they had to have buildings here just to keep up the growth of our state," he said, calling the region "booming." That growth is not confined to south Fort Worth. Hillwood announced April 13, a week before the Dick's ribbon-cutting, that it was adding two speculative industrial buildings totaling nearly 770,000 square feet to its AllianceTexas portfolio in the north part of the city, bringing its speculative pipeline there to five buildings under construction.

The Bigger Bet Behind the Bollards

The Dick's opening is a data point inside a much larger regional story. A CommercialSearch report cited by Hillwood found the Dallas-Fort Worth area led the nation at the start of 2026 in industrial space under construction, with 28.8 million square feet in the pipeline. Much of that activity traces back to infrastructure Hillwood built decades ago: Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport, the world's first airport purpose-built for industrial use, and the adjoining BNSF Alliance Intermodal Facility, both anchors of the original AllianceTexas development that opened in 1989. AllianceTexas alone has generated an estimated $142.9 billion in cumulative economic impact and is now home to more than 600 companies, according to figures Hillwood has published from Texas Comptroller data.

South Fort Worth's version of that story is younger and smaller, but it is filling in fast. The Risinger/35 park's roughly 86 acres now hold a national retailer's newest distribution hub, a Fortune 500 logistics operator's fulfillment center, and a European tire manufacturer's first owned U.S. warehouse, all within a few years of each other. For Dick's, the calculation was straightforward: a state with two of its fastest-growing metro footprints, a workforce Hillwood and local officials pitched as reliable, and a developer with a three-decade track record of building exactly this kind of facility on time.

What Comes Next

For now, the building is still finding its rhythm. A.J. Scott, the center's operations supervisor, put it plainly during the opening: "We're getting there. There are a lot of moving parts." Those parts include the Honeywell conveyor system still ramping toward full automation, a headcount expected to double, and a supply chain that now has to serve both Dick's and Foot Locker's expanding Texas store counts. If the pattern holds, the Fort Worth facility will not be the last word on Dick's presence in the state, and it will not be the last building to rise inside Hillwood's fast-filling logistics park either. The land may be running out. The demand, on the current evidence, is not.