Firestone's Target opened at 4358 City Centre Road on July 26, 2026. Since then, the stretch of Firestone Boulevard near I-25 has picked up a reputation as the place where everything is about to arrive. A Culver's has been reported. A Chipotle drive-through and an 84,000-square-foot WinCo Foods are on file with the town. On paper, the corridor looks close to finished.
The Town of Firestone's own development register tells a slower story. In the version dated September 29, 2026, all three of those projects carry the same status, "Referral Review." None of the three shows an approval or a construction start. Target is the one big new arrival that's open right now. The change residents run into on every trip is a rerouted left turn at the interchange, made in the same weeks Target opened its doors.
What's actually open, and since when
The open part of the corridor is the City Centre development, which The Staenberg Group oversees. The firm describes the full City Centre as a 140-acre mixed-use project with more than 600,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. Its 33-acre retail portion at the I-25 and Highway 119 interchange is called Firestone City Centre North. That's where the familiar stops already are: Home Depot, American Furniture Warehouse, Comfort Dental, Brakes Plus and Anytime Fitness.
Here's what has opened over the past two years, in order:
- 7 Brew, 4295 Firestone Blvd., opened December 16, 2024.
- Chick-fil-A I-25 & Firestone, 4405 Firestone Blvd., opened October 23, 2025. That makes this month its first anniversary.
- Target, 4358 City Centre Road, opened July 26, 2026, just west of Home Depot.
Target is the one that changes weekly routines. According to Target's store-openings fact sheet, the store is about 128,000 square feet and open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. It includes a CVS Pharmacy and a Starbucks Café. It offers Drive Up, Order Pickup and same-day delivery with Target Circle 360, with next-day delivery available across Firestone. Target also lists the store among its locations with the company's "newest food-forward selection of fresh and affordable produce, meat and dairy." For a Firestone household, that combination means a prescription pickup, a coffee and a grocery run can now happen in one stop on the east side of the interstate.
Where "coming soon" actually stands
The rest of the list lives in the town's development register. It's a plain spreadsheet the Planning and Development department updates, and it's the most reliable way to check on a rumored opening. Three restaurant and retail projects on Firestone Boulevard, all filed under the Del Camino Central plats, look like this as of September 29, 2026:
| Project | Size | Filed with the town | Status on Sept. 29, 2026 | Time on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WinCo Foods | 84,000 sq ft grocery store | December 16, 2025 | Referral Review | about 9 months |
| Chipotle | 2,385 sq ft drive-through | January 5, 2026 | Referral Review | nearly 9 months |
| Culver's | 4,850 sq ft restaurant | May 6, 2026 | Referral Review | nearly 5 months |
The Culver's is the one people have pinned down most precisely. BizWest's BreakingGround reported on August 28, 2026, that McCON Building Corp. had filed plans for the restaurant on a 1.53-acre site at 4345 Firestone Boulevard, between 7 Brew and Chick-fil-A. So it would sit between two places already open, on a stretch residents already drive. The register doesn't say when, or whether, it will open.
The WinCo filing has been around longest. BizWest reported in February 2025 that the Idaho-based grocery chain had bought land in Firestone. The formal development plan reached the town in December 2025. It covers an 84,000-square-foot store at the northwest corner of Green Boots Lane and Arbor Street. That's roughly two-thirds the size of the new Target. By the September 2026 register, about 19 months had passed since the land purchase, and the project still had no opening date anyone has published.
The Chipotle filing covers a 2,385-square-foot drive-through on the north side of Firestone Boulevard, east of Arbor Street. It has been on file since the first week of 2026.
None of this means these projects are stalled or in trouble. A filing in review is the normal step before approval. But "Referral Review" describes a project still moving through the town's process. It doesn't mean a restaurant is about to open its doors. The register is public and updated, so it's a better gauge of timing than whatever is going around on a neighborhood thread.
The left turn you can no longer make
Target's opening shapes where people shop. A smaller change at the interchange shapes how everyone gets there, including people who never set foot in the new store.
On July 2, the town announced new traffic signals at Firestone Boulevard and the East Frontage Road, and at the northbound I-25 on-ramp. Overnight work was scheduled for July 6 through 9, with westbound lane closures. On July 20, six days before Target opened, the town posted a new traffic pattern for drivers leaving northbound I-25 at Firestone Boulevard.
Before the change, a driver heading north on the East Frontage Road could take the right exit lane and cut across three lanes of traffic to turn left. That move is gone. The town's notice lays out the new route:
- Proceed straight to the traffic signal at Firestone Boulevard.
- Turn right onto Firestone Boulevard.
- Move into the designated left-turn lane to reach the northbound East Frontage Road.
New signs and solid lane striping now mark the route. The town says the Firestone Police Department is monitoring the area. The notice spells out the penalty:
Failure to comply is a 4-point traffic infraction and may result in a $200 fine, plus a $25 surcharge.
The town describes the change as part of the I-25 & Firestone Boulevard Safety Improvements Project, a partnership with the Colorado Department of Transportation. The stated goals are to improve safety, reduce congestion and improve traffic flow near the interchange. The new pattern took effect the same week as the busiest retail opening the corridor has seen. Anyone who drove the old left turn for years has run into the new one by now.
The other big "coming" project, a few miles west
The interchange isn't the only part of Firestone where plans have changed. Central Park is a 252-acre, town-owned property on Colorado Boulevard. It surrounds the Carbon Valley Regional Library and Firestone's municipal campus, and the town has long hoped to turn it into a mixed-use district. A July 2026 BizWest report describes a United Soccer League plan, unveiled the previous September, that called for a stadium seating at least 5,000 and a 200,000-square-foot multi-sports facility.
The same report says the Board of Trustees voted in February to end its predevelopment agreement with the league and Card & Associates. In the spring, trustees met with Card about pursuing only the fieldhouse piece. As of that report, what a fieldhouse would include remained undetermined. So the stadium is off the table, and nothing specific has replaced it yet.
The pattern holds on both sides of town. In 2026, the projects with firm dates were the Target opening and the July interchange work. The Culver's, the Chipotle, the WinCo and any Central Park fieldhouse are all still on paper. The register prepared September 29, 2026, is the latest public word on the restaurant and grocery filings. When one of those status entries changes from "Referral Review," that change will tell residents more than any coming-soon sign.
A year of new stores and road changes along Firestone Boulevard raises a fair question about what it means for the homes around it. If you'd like that answer for your own address, Dwellings Colorado will look at what has opened, what's still in review and what nearby sales show, and put it together for your home. Get your free home valuation and we'll walk you through the numbers.
