So we looked up our handy Spanish-English dictionary and found out that a padrón is actually a master list such as a voter registration or member list. Since that would make no sense to have a store named padrón, we figured it was a variant of Patrón, or boss. That made a little more sense, but still didn't ring quite right. So we tossed it around some of our local word smiths and hit upon the idea that the new owner considered himself a "papasote," or "muy padre," or "padrote" in the sense of La Mera Paipa, or the Main Squeeze.
Regardless of the language laboratory going on around that barrio, this is the Lopez Grocery replacement. We have seen the King Mart, the Saldaña Grocery Stores, Serrata's and other neighborhood Mom and Pop stores go by the wayside in Brownsville barrios. We welcome the new guy "El Padrón" to supply the people without cars or the inclination to drive all the way to the other Lopezes, HEBs or Walmarts blocks away."