Terry Black’s restaurant in Lockhart is one of four locations the chain operates. Credit: Instagram / terryblacks_bbq
More details have emerged in a state regulatory filing about Terry Black’s Barbecue’s first foray into San Antonio.

The Lockhart-born barbecue chain will spend $6 million constructing a nearly 9,800-square-foot restaurant at 2101 Broadway, according to details shared Tuesday with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

Work on the Pearl-area site is expected to get underway next spring and wrap up in May 2026, the report shows. San Antonio’s Historic and Design Review Commission last month signed off on the company’s planned construction of a restaurant, courtyard, pit house and parking lot on the 1.4-acre site.

The family that owns Terry Black’s bought the north-of-downtown property in 2021 with plans to develop a pair of restaurants and a hotel on the spot.

The family hasn’t yet submitted plans for the hotel and the other restaurant to the HDRC, nor has it publicly shared a timetable for those additional developments.

Terry Black’s Barbecue currently operates restaurants in Austin, Dallas, Lockhart and Waco. The chain specializes in meat-market style barbecue, meaning customers line up to select meat from a cutter working at a chopping block.

Terry Black’s brother Kent runs rival The Original Black’s Barbecue in Lockhart. That chain also operates locations in Austin, New Braunfels and San Marcos.

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Sanford Nowlin is editor-in-chief of the San Antonio Current. He holds degrees from Trinity University and the University of Texas at San Antonio, and his work has been featured in Salon, Alternet, Creative...