El Paso, Texas
A new metro in a state where the brand already runs shops. First El Paso counter of the year, and the one that gets watched for how a second wave follows.
315 E 28th St, Brooklyn, NY · Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Where Shipley Donuts is opening next
Groundbreakings, relocations and first-in-state shops — plus the construction timelines behind each one.
The section brief
Stores, not announcements
New Locations tracks physical shops: groundbreakings, relocations, first-in-state openings and the construction timelines behind them. If a Shipley shop is being built, moved or scheduled to open, it belongs in this section — and so does the detail that decides whether the date holds.
We keep three things separate on purpose. A signed agreement is not a store under construction. A construction site is not an open counter. A stated date is a plan until the company confirms the doors are open. Story by story, that separation is the most useful thing we can give a reader who is tracking a specific block.
Covered this year
The 2026 market entries
In the first half of 2026, Shipley entered new markets in Louisiana, Texas and Virginia. The company opened its first El Paso shop, then added locations in Bossier City and Vienna. El Paso is the notable one because it's a new metro in a state where the brand already operates; Bossier City and Vienna represent new-state or new-region entries. Each opening changed the map slightly differently, which is why we cover them individually rather than as one growth line.
Bossier City, Louisiana
A new-state entry, which means no local supply chain behind it and a longer ramp before the shop runs at its normal rhythm.
Vienna, Virginia
A new-region entry close to a highway corridor, so the format and the traffic pattern both differ from the El Paso counter.
Swipe the strip to compare the three entries; each was a different kind of map change, so we report them one at a time.
Highway frontage brings drive-by traffic a neighborhood strip center cannot, which is the whole argument for the move.
Relocations
Harker Heights: a relocation, not an opening
A new Shipley Donuts building was under construction in Harker Heights, Texas. The shop was expected to move from its Knight's Way site to the West Central Texas Expressway location, with the opening planned for December 1. Relocations are worth watching because they change access: highway frontage brings drive-by traffic that a neighborhood strip center doesn't.
The old site's future is a separate question. A vacated unit can sit, be subdivided, or be taken by a different operator, and none of those outcomes is announced at the same time as the move. We'll report it when there's something public, and if there is nothing, we'll say that too.
See the South Dallas projectFirst stores in new states
Ohio, Michigan and Nevada are all first-in-state situations. The Ohio shop is planned for Q1 2027, the first Michigan location is targeted for late Q1 2027, and the Las Vegas agreement covers three Nevada shops.
First stores are the hardest to open because there's no local supply chain, no brand recognition and no trained labor pool to draw on. They're also the ones that determine whether a market gets a second wave of development. Watch a first store closely and you are watching a decision get made about the whole state.
Ohio
Q1 2027. Three-unit Cincinnati franchise deal; the state's first counter and its first local supplier question.
Read the Ohio dealMichigan
Late Q1 2027 for the first shop, under a metro Detroit agreement that names fifteen locations in total.
Read the Detroit agreementNevada
Three shops covered by the Las Vegas agreement — the first time the brand has committed to Nevada territory.
Read the Nevada dealGround-up construction
South Dallas and a different kind of site
The South Dallas project is planned for 2807 Al Lipscomb Way, with an opening target at the end of 2026. It was described as part of a ground-up retail project, which means new construction rather than a conversion of an existing building.
That distinction affects the timeline more than anything else in the announcement, because ground-up builds depend on site work and permitting before a single fixture goes in. It also shapes what the shop can become: a purpose-built unit is designed around the counter and the drive lane from the first drawing, instead of working around whatever the previous tenant left behind.
See the South Dallas project
Site work and permitting come first; everything visible above the slab arrives after both.
Territories, not yet openings
Florida counties still open
Shipley said it was seeking franchise operators for several Florida counties, announced around its planned appearance at the IFA World Franchise Show in Fort Lauderdale. We list them here so readers can tell the difference between a signed deal and an available territory.
Palm Beach County
Operator sought · no signed agreement reported
Broward County
Operator sought · no signed agreement reported
Miami-Dade County
Operator sought · no signed agreement reported
Why Florida is still open
An available county is not a shop. It becomes one when a franchisee signs and construction starts.
The Southeast pipeline
Raleigh's two-unit agreement with Plexus Raleigh LLC adds North Carolina to the development list, and the same announcement period included the Metro Detroit and Atlanta mentions. Read together, the pipeline leans toward the Southeast and Midwest into 2027.
We keep a running note of which states have signed agreements versus which have stores actually under construction, because the gap between those two things is usually where timelines slip. A signed agreement can sit for a year while a site is chosen, and a chosen site can take another year to open. The states in both columns are the ones worth watching closely.
North Carolina, Georgia and Michigan all appear in the current list. Of those, only the Michigan agreement has a stated first-shop window, so it's the one we'd expect to move first. Stillwater's three-shop development agreement is a separate thread running on its own schedule.
Editorial method
How we date an opening
We use the date the company states in its announcement and label it as planned, targeted or expected depending on the wording. When a store actually opens, we update the story with the confirmed date. If a planned date passes without news, we say so rather than quietly deleting it.
Readers tracking a specific location should treat every future date on this site as a plan until it's confirmed. That is not a hedge — it is the honest status of a construction schedule, and it is the fastest way to tell which stories have moved and which have not.
Every date is logged with the wording it arrived in; when a plan moves, the entry moves with it.
Report an opening
If something is happening on your block, we want to hear it. Local updates are how we keep the map honest — call +1 445 232 2690 during the week, or send the details through our contact page.
Questions readers send us
The same few things come up whenever a shop is announced. Here are the answers, in plain terms.
What's the difference between a signed agreement and an opening?
A signed agreement is a commitment to develop in a territory. An opening is a counter serving customers. Between them sit site selection, permitting, construction and staffing, and any of those can move a date. We list both, but we never present one as the other.
Why do you cover relocations separately from openings?
Because the net change to the map is zero while the change to access is real. A shop that moves to highway frontage serves a different set of customers, and the unit it leaves behind becomes its own story. Reading a relocation as an opening hides both facts.
A planned date came and went with no news. Will you update it?
Yes, and we'll say the date passed. We don't remove a schedule quietly, because a missing date is easy to misread as an opening that already happened. If there's no new information to add, the story keeps its original plan and a note that it hasn't been confirmed.
When a county is listed as available, does that mean a shop is coming?
No. An available territory is an invitation, not a plan. The Florida counties on this page have no signed agreement reported, so there is no site to track yet. We'll move them into the store list only when an operator signs and construction starts.
Keep tracking the map
This page is updated as agreements turn into construction and construction turns into open counters. If you're following one specific shop, the news archive is where the dating history lives; the business section covers the franchise deals behind each new territory.
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Our office, not a store locator. Opening coverage is reported here on the page and in the news archive.
Here's how we follow a shop from announcement to open counter
A dated plan is published as stated. A signed agreement is kept in its own list. When construction begins, the site gets its own note. When the counter opens, the story is updated with the confirmed date — and if a plan stalls, that stays on the record too.
If you're tracking a specific location, this is the sequence to watch. Every step on this page fits into it, and nothing gets skipped to make a headline read faster.