Burlington Is Now Open in Forney at the Village at Gateway
Burlington is now open at The Village at Gateway in Forney — a roughly 22,000-square-foot store at 11610 E US Highway 80, Forney, TX 75126, in the same wave as Ross, Five Below, and Rack Room Shoes.
That’s the short version. Here’s what it actually means for a Forney household.
Where It Sits at Gateway
Burlington is in the inline retail run at Village at Gateway, the 120-acre development on US-80 at FM 460. Its neighbors are Target, H-E-B, Home Depot, Ross, and — still to come — BJ’s Wholesale and EVO Entertainment. Everything shares the same parking field and the same US-80 access points.
Worth knowing: this is a 22,000 sq ft store, not one of Burlington’s 60,000+ sq ft legacy locations. The chain has been deliberately building smaller for years — tighter footprints, faster inventory turns, less dead floor space. Practically, that means fewer categories carried deep, and a store you can actually walk in 20 minutes.
What Burlington Is Good At
Burlington is off-price retail, same broad model as Ross: overstock and closeout inventory sold at a steep discount. But the mix leans differently.
Where Burlington consistently outperforms:
- Coats and outerwear. It’s still the “Coat Factory,” and in a North Texas cold snap that matters more than people admit.
- Baby and kids’ gear. Strollers, car seats, cribs, and clothing — often the single best-value section in the store.
- Bigger apparel range. Deeper size runs, more men’s, more plus and petite.
- Home and bath. Comparable to Ross, sometimes better organized.
Where it’s weaker: the fast-turning trend apparel and athletic-shoe wall that Ross does well.
Burlington vs. Ross at the Same Center
Both opened at Gateway within weeks of each other, which is unusual and genuinely useful — you can compare them on one trip.
| Burlington | Ross | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Coats, baby gear, wider sizes | Activewear, shoes, quick finds |
| Store feel | Department-store layout | Dense racks, treasure hunt |
| Trip length | ~30 minutes | ~15 minutes |
| Restock rhythm | Steady | Heavy midweek freight |
Our Ross Forney guide covers that side in the same detail. Most Forney families will end up defaulting to one and checking the other seasonally.
Why Forney Got This Now
Kaufman County has been among the fastest-growing counties in the country, and Forney ISD alone is projected to roughly double enrollment over the next decade. Retailers watch rooftop counts and household formation — a place adding that many young families with kids is exactly the profile Burlington’s baby and kids’ departments are built for.
Until Gateway, buying a winter coat or a car seat in Forney meant driving to Mesquite, Rockwall, or Terrell. That’s the pattern breaking. We track every confirmed opening in the Village at Gateway opening calendar.
How to Shop It in the First Few Weeks
Newly opened off-price stores are a specific kind of chaotic. A few things that actually help:
- Skip Saturday. Go Tuesday or Wednesday instead. Same inventory, a quarter of the people.
- Opening inventory is the best it will ever be. Stores stock heavy for a launch. If you need a big-ticket item — a stroller, a winter coat — the first few weeks are the window.
- Check the clearance rack first, not last. In off-price, clearance means “we’re out of season,” not “damaged.”
- Bring the kids’ current sizes written down. You will not remember them in the aisle.
The Connection to Your Actual Week
Here’s the pattern we’ve watched for 25 years on this corridor: Forney gets more convenient, and people fill the reclaimed time with more things — not with the things they said mattered.
The drive you’re no longer making to Mesquite is 40 minutes. That’s a real workout. Not a rushed one — a full session with warm-up, working sets, and a shower.
We’re at 127 E US Highway 80, Forney, TX 75126, on the same road as Gateway, about five minutes from Burlington. That’s the whole point: a gym you pass anyway gets used. One that requires a special trip doesn’t.
Weekday hours start at 5 AM, there’s no annual fee, and members with kids can use the supervised Kids Zone while they train.
Questions? Call (972) 564-0909 or stop in for a tour.