Almost two decades at one address is not an accident. It is a series of decisions, made over and over again, to stay put and keep serving the same neighbors who have been walking through those doors since the mid-2000s. When Jabo's Ace Hardware completed its full store renovation and held its grand reopening on May 14, 2026, that long tenure was the real story beneath the ribbon-cutting.

The Keller Parkway location is the original. The Jablonowski family has since grown their operation to five DFW locations, including stores in Coppell, Fort Worth, Hurst, and Rowlett. Each of those came after Keller. That matters, because the Keller store is where the family's presence in this market was established, where they learned how to serve this particular kind of community, and where the loyalty that allowed them to expand was built one transaction at a time.

A New Retail Cluster Takes Shape

A grand reopening after a renovation is a common enough event, but what happened inside this one signals something worth noticing. The Cove Gifts, a boutique that had been operating within the hardware store since November 2024, moved into two adjoining vacant retail spots as part of the remodel. That is not simply a layout change. It is a small retail cluster forming at Keller Crossing Shopping Plaza, one that did not exist before.

A hardware store and a gifts boutique are not obvious neighbors, but they are extremely practical ones in a family-first community. The person who comes in for paint supplies might step next door to find something for a birthday. The shopper browsing gifts discovers a place to ask about a home repair question. These kinds of adjacencies do not happen by design so much as by proximity and trust. The Jablonowski family created the conditions for it when they made room for The Cove Gifts inside their store in the first place.

Nineteen Years of Neighborhood Service

The ribbon-cutting ceremony with the Greater Keller Chamber of Commerce was a genuine civic moment. Events like this matter because they affirm that a business is part of the community's commercial fabric, not just a storefront. The Chamber's presence signals recognition that what the Jablonowskis have built in Keller is worth marking publicly. Nineteen years of community hardware service is the kind of track record that earns that kind of welcome.

The giveaways at the reopening, a grill and a paint-your-room package, are also telling in their specificity. A grill is a backyard, a summer, a neighborhood get-together. A paint-your-room package is a weekend project, a home improvement decision, a living space made new. Both speak directly to the Keller residents who have been shopping at this location for the better part of two decades, people who own homes, who host family gatherings, who take care of their spaces. The prizes were local in spirit, not just in geography.

For Keller families who have been shopping at this location since the Jablonowskis first opened, the renovation is a confirmation that the store is not going anywhere. For anyone who has not yet stopped in, now is a good time. Come by the Keller Parkway location and see what nearly 20 years of neighborhood investment looks like from the inside.