HTeaO opens new Prosper shop on South Preston Road

Another branded beverage stop is headed for Prosper’s South Preston Road, where HTeaO plans to celebrate the grand opening of its newest shop at 200 South Preston Road on Saturday, May 9. Listed by the company as the Preston & First St. location, the store adds another high-visibility stop to a corridor that has become one of Collin County’s clearest markers of suburban growth.

The Prosper shop will be owned by Steven Benavides and operated by General Manager Kevin Benavides. HTeaO says the new location will offer more than 20 tea flavors, plus hot and iced coffee, while its franchise materials describe a broader lineup that can include purified water, purified ice, bottled water, fruit, snacks and other retail items. The mix is built for quick repeat visits, the kind that fit morning commutes, school pickup lines and weekend errands.

The opening had been expected earlier in the spring before HTeaO set the May 9 date, giving the project a more formal launch point after the original timing shifted. That matters in Prosper, where new retail announcements are increasingly read through the lens of daily traffic and convenience as much as simple expansion.

HTeaO’s growth helps explain why the brand keeps landing in fast-moving suburbs like Prosper. The company began as a family side business in Amarillo in 2009 and officially launched as a franchise in 2018. One company profile said it had 136 locations by 2024, while current franchise materials describe a system with 140-plus locations. That kind of pace is typical of a chain that has found a formula built around short visits, easy access and a product people will return for often.

Prosper’s own numbers show why South Preston Road has become such a target for beverage and quick-service concepts. Town figures put the population at 46,087 on Jan. 1, 2025, up from 30,174 in the 2020 Census. The town expects 72,000 residents at buildout. With that level of growth, every new shop along Preston Road is part of a larger retail shift, one that brings more convenience but also fuels familiar questions about congestion, chain saturation and how much of Prosper’s local character survives as the corridor fills in.