EAST RIVERSIDE DRIVE to EAST BEN WHITE BOULEVARD

Americana Building / 1301 S. Interstate 35
This briefly abandoned building fell into very bad shape in the early 2020s with graffiti covering it as well as some evidence of fire damage. By 2024 it was restored.

Aiden @ Austin City Hotel / 2200 S. Interstate Highway 35
This was built as Quality Inn Austin South in 1974 and went to the Clarion brand sometime around late 1997.

Between 2013 and 2014 it went from Clarion Inn & Suites to Best Western Plus - Austin City Hotel, and in 2019 became the first Aiden hotel in North America, a boutique hotel brand owned by Best Western.

Whip In / 1950 S. Interstate 35
This has been a hybrid convenience store/restaurant since at least the late 2000s. It opened in the mid-1980s as a Whip In, and originally opened as Convenient Food Mart.

Arbor Terrace Apartments / 2501 South Interstate 35
This converted to apartments from Suburban Extended Stay Hotel (a Choice Hotels brand) in the early 2010s.

CubeSmart Self Storage / 2525 S. I-35
This CubeSmart (opened late 2017) reuses the signage of Americas Best Value Inn, which was closed and demolished around 2010.

Donn's Bar-B-Que / 2617 S. Interstate 35
This opened in May 2013 as the second location of Donn's Bar-B-Que. It had previously been a Kettle, which operated from 1972 to 2012.

Country Garden Inn / 2915 I-35 South
This inexpensive motel has switched names back and forth several times in recent years. As of 2007 it was "Country Garden Inn & Suites". It became Americas Best Value Inn between 2015 and 2016 (no relation to the former one that closed up the street a few years earlier), then briefly reverted to "Country Garden Inn" around 2019-2020. Between February 2020 and 2021 it became Travelodge (Travelodge Wyndham Austin South) and by 2025 had become Country Garden Inn again.

3017 S. Interstate 35
When I last updated the Austin I-35 page around 2023, the Casulo Hotel was in operation. The three-story hotel, only built in 2009, was, as described by the local tourism bureau, a "unique boutique hotel", "influenced by the Asian culture, housing exotic jacuzzi suites and elegant, high-ceiling rooms". As of January 2025 it is abandoned and boarded up with graffiti covering the sign.

Wyndham Garden / 3401 Interstate 35 South
The only Austin location of Wyndham Garden was built in the early 1980s. Due to spotty records, it's unknown what it was originally but by the early 1990s was a Howard Johnson hotel, then became a Holiday Inn by 1996, then became the Woodward Hotel & Conference Center.

Due to spotty news records, it's possible that it was a Days Inn briefly (2002-2004) but it was Holiday Inn by 2005 before becoming Woodward Hotel and Conference Center by April 2006, and within a year assumed its current name.

According to a 2002 hotel directory I have, as of 2002 the hotel had 210 rooms, five floors, and the "Country Kitchen" restaurant.

The Home Depot / 3600 S. I-35
This Home Depot was opened in July 2001 and notably, this features forest green awnings rather than the orange ones Home Depot is known for. Accessed from both the freeway and the Home Depot's parking lot (the latter being a service road back exit) is Assumption Cemetery at 3650 South Interstate Highway 35.

3651 Interstate 35 South
This is a submission processing center for the IRS. In 2016 it was announced it would close in 2024 but this was reversed in 2022 and it has remained open. This may have been originally been built as a production facility or corporate headquarters but this has been occupied by the IRS since at least 1989.

Austin Independent School District / 4000 S. I-35
Austin ISD moved into this building, formerly the Southfield Building, in 2018. It was built sometime around 1987 (give or take a few years) as an office building.

EAST BEN WHITE BOULEVARD (STATE HIGHWAY 71) to WEST SLAUGHTER LANE / EAST SLAUGHTER LANE

Aloft / 4108 South I-35
Aloft Austin South opened in 2022 on the site of Howdy Honda Certified Used Cars, which had not operated in years. The main Howdy Honda operated from approximate 1984 to 2006 at 4110 Santiago Street behind it. This site is still vacant.

La Catedral del Marisco / 4118 S. I-35
This served as an IHOP from 1983 to 2004 as a complement to the La Quinta next door. After that it has been a Mexican restaurant. It seems that it started out as Mi Cabaña Restaurant but is now "La Catedral del Marisco #3" (lit. "The Shellfish Cathedral") with its own website but also seems to be contiguous ownership.

Super 8 / 4200 S. I-35
This former La Quinta converted to Super 8 by Wyndham Austin South in late 2022, a lower end brand by Wyndham (which owns both brands).

Skylite Inn / 4220 S. I-35
A former Days Inn (Days Inn Austin South; Skylite reuses the sign). It appears it converted around January 2022 or very late 2021. Google was still reporting Days Inn being here as of February 2022; it had officially changed hands in 2021.

South Austin Nissan Pre-Owned / 4222 S. I-35
The pre-owned car section of South Austin Nissan and the de facto start of the "Motor Mile" section of Austin. It used to be Furr's Family Dining (formerly Furr's Cafeteria, which later converted to buffet style). The distinctive red circular signage is unused these days. The restaurant operated from around 1981 to 2012.

Sonesta Simply Suites / 4320 S. I-35
This was formerly Candlewood Suites and originally opened in 1998. Between 2020 and 2021 it converted to its current name. According to my resources this has 122 floors on three floors (under Candlewood Suites, at least).

CarMax / 4400 S. Interstate 35
CarMax opened here in early 2007. This was redeveloped from a previous dealership but the construction is all-new. More information on the old dealerships will be added in a future update.

Red Roof PLUS+ / 4701 S. Interstate 35
This Red Roof Inn was built in 1997, and at some point in or after 2014 converted to the Red Roof PLUS+ designation.

5015 S. I-35
From January 1989 (tax records indicate 12/31/88, unlikely it was open NYE) to 2005, this was a Wal-Mart (#1253), which was, due to topography and trees, impossible to see from the road. It was replaced by the store at 710 East Ben White Boulevard. Today the former Wal-Mart has been renovated into an office building, where the IRS (among others) takes up space here. The IRS has Austin offices a bit further up I-35 at the northeast corner of I-35 and 71.

5107 S. I-35
This was a Sam's Club from 1988 to October 2011, and like Wal-Mart, it too moved from its invisible position to 9900 Interstate 35 South. Today, it's owned by KIPP-Austin Public Schools, a charter school, and holds both KIPP Austin Brave High School and KIPP Austin Obras Elementary School (no middle school).

BMW of South Austin / 5501 S. I-35
From 1998 to its closure in 2015 this was a Cinemark Tinseltown movie theater. The dealership opened in 2018, though the theater was demolished in the process.

5432 S. Interstate Hwy. 35
Car dealership Tricolor Auto (as a chain) filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in 2025. (It was still listed as being open as of this writing).

Fiesta Mart / 5510 South Interstate 35

This Fiesta Mart is unusual for a few reasons. It's one of the two Fiesta stores in Austin, it's got a gas station and convenience store on the corner, and (related to the previous fact), was a former Albertsons (#4093) which operated from March 2000 to July 2006. In 2007, Albertsons would leave the Austin market, selling its remaining stores to H-E-B, which reopened some but closed others. Fiesta Mart #64 would open in February 2007 at this location. There are a few stores adjacent to the Albertsons/Fiesta Mart built around the same time.

The gas station looked much closer to Albertsons Express (canopy with rounded corners, "Snacks" and "Beverages" still on the store but sometime around 2021 this was renovated out, and evidence also indicates the store interior was updated later after opening.

The 5510 address designation is given to others in the same shopping center. Lowe's to the north has it, it opened around late May 2000, as well as the other stores in the shopping center, including Pizza Hut (which as of 2022 reverted its logo to the "classic" logo), Gamefellas Video Game Exchange, and Goose Cap Liquor (opened in 2019, but coincidentally, the same owners who took over the Fiesta liquor stores and rebranded them as "Uno Más Liquor" (the presence of a Fiesta nearby may or may not be a coincidence).

Over in the parking lot, 5510-C, is the very LAST Texas Land & Cattle restaurant remaining. It opened in 2001 (after Albertsons opened). As of 2002, there two dozen locations (usually in Texas metropolitan areas, Austin included, but also locations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado). I ate at the Lubbock restaurant in December 2002, a distant memory at this point. You can see the site's dedicated page on Texas Land & Cattle here.

6405 South Interstate 35
This opened as Target (T-683) that operated in this location from October 1991 to October 2007 when it moved to Southpark Meadows. Wayside Schools moved in around the early 2010s and today hosts the main administrative offices, Wayside REAL Learning Academy (PreK-5) and Wayside Sci-Tech Middle School (6-8).

Capitol Chevrolet / 6200 S. Interstate 35
Capitol Chevrolet moved here in 1998 from its old location at 501 N. Lamar downtown, where it had been since 1951. (It stretched several blocks). Today, the dealership features a parking garage to conserve space, and in 2006 an addition added an accessway onto North Bluff Drive.

McDonald's / 6503 S. Interstate 35
This McDonald's has been here since the year 2000 and has since been remodeled into the current prototype.

Taco Cabana / 6430 S. Interstate 35
The Taco Cabana here has been operating since December 1994 (at the earliest) but likely around January 1995.

H-E-B / 6607 S. Interstate 35
This H-E-B was originally built in 1977 though in the late 1980s was rebuilt as a larger location with a bigger setback from the road.

Burlington / 6715 Interstate 35 S.
Burlington Coat Factory (#434) moved into this former Kmart in summer 2003. The chain has been known as Burlington since the late 2010s, with this store receiving a new name at some point after that. It was a Kmart (#7511, labeled as Big Kmart from the late 1990s on) from November 1981 to July 2002.

Oak Meadow Baptist Church / 6905 South Interstate 35
This started out as the short-lived Town Lake Chrysler Plymouth which opened in 1989 but closed in May 1990. A few months later, it was re-opened by Nyle Maxwell, which reopened the dealership as Prestige Chrysler Plymouth. It appears that it kept that name ("Prestige Chrysler", that is, as DaimlerChrysler discontinued the Plymouth brand in 2001) until its demise in the late 2000s when it moved (it was also known as "Maxwell Chrysler South"). It was later sold to and renovated as Oak Meadow Baptist Church which used both of the dealership's buildings. A third building had been built on the property in the 2000s but under the church this was fenced off and became a warehouse for Lifeworks South Austin Youth & Family Resource Center.

Austin Lone Star RV Resort / 7009 S. Interstate 35
Also known as "Austin Lone Star: A Sun RV Resort" since around 2016-2017, this RV campground has been around since 1969.

Adult Megaplex / 7111 South I-35
This was constructed between 1966 and 1973 and was originally for industrial use. It was previously occupied by The Jenkins Company (1970-???), Military History Associates Inc. (1974-1976), Adolphus Book Bindery (1976-1988), T. Michael Parrish Rare Americana (1992), and Leon's Tile (1993-1997). As these are from tax records, names and dates may not be accurate (and may have had multiple tenants in the building). Since 1998, however, it has only had its current tenant (also known as "Adult Video MegapleXXX").

Golden Corral / 7300 S. I-35
This Golden Corral buffet restaurant (#988) opened in late 2016. Coincidentally, it sits at a street named "Corral Lane".

Fast Friends Beer Company / 7313 S. I-35
This microbrewery opened in July 2022. The side facing the Interstate has big words on it: "Do Good, Love Big, Live Now".

Crash Champions / 7501 S. I-35
Like its North Austin counterpart, this opened as B&B Body & Paint in the mid-2000s and rebranded to Service King by 2012. By mid-2024 it had rebranded again to Crash Champions.

Sunbelt Rentals / 8300 I-35 South
Sunbelt Rentals has been here since 2001. In 2009, the sign was replaced with a smaller one (though with their updated logo). It was previously something else prior to Sunbelt Rentals (the building dates back to 1980), but it isn't clear at this time.

P. Terry's Burger Stand / 8600 S. Interstate 35
P. Terry's opened their restaurant #21 in spring 2022. It is a double drive-through but no eat-in area. From the parking lot you can navigate to the massive H-E-B between South Congress and I-35.

Bridge at Monarch Bluffs Apartments / 8515 South Interstate 35
This was built in the late 2000s as "The Cottages". Between 2017-2018 these became Griffis Southpark, and assumed its current name in the early 2020s.

The Home Depot / 8801 S. I-35
The Home Depot here opened in September 2003, but it shares the address with others in the same shopping center, including a Circle K (opened as a Shell-branded "Signature" or "Signature Austin" in January 2004; became a Circle K between 2011 and 2013; between February 2021 and February 2022 the Shell branding was dropped and became a Circle K in its entirety), an IHOP restaurant, and Don Dario's Cantina.

WEST SLAUGHTER LANE / EAST SLAUGHTER LANE to STATE HIGHWAY 45

U-Haul Moving & Storage / 9001 S. I-35
"U-Haul Moving & Storage at Slaughter Lane" has been here since around early 2001 (if not December 2000)

Floor & Decor / 9315 South Interstate 35
This 73,000 square feet Floor & Decor store opened in late 2021. It sits at the southeast corner of the Slaughter/I-35 area. On the southwest side sits the sprawling Southpark Meadows shopping center.

Chuck E. Cheese / 9811 S. Interstate 35
This stand-alone CEC (branded as "Chuck E. Cheese's" until 2023, with a repaint of the building) opened in 2013. Sharing the address is building built later—Wing Daddy's Sauce House opened in the last few months of 2016.

Bridge at Asher Apartments / 10505 S. I-35
Until around 2016-2017, this apartment complex was known as Stonegate Apartments. It is possible they had another name when they were constructed in 2003.

Onion Creek Luxury Apartments / 10701 S. Interstate 35
These apartments are accessed through a public alleyway from the I-35 frontage road and have had this name at least since 2011, but were known as Alexan Onion Creek when it was built in the mid-to-late 2000s.

Farmhouse / 10801 S. I-35
This apartment complex was built in 2017 (though it looks quite unfinished as of May 2017 Street View) and features 235 units in several 4-story buildings.

Cowboy Harley-Davidson of Austin / 10917 South IH 35
This opened in 2002 as Hill Country Harley-Davidson but has had its current name since around 2006 (also known as Teddy Morse's Cowboy Harley-Davidson, though this seems to be even more recent).

Exxon / 11031 South I-35
This Exxon used to be a Texaco (converted between 2020 and 2021). For some reason, the digital signage was also changed to an extremely small size (almost impossible to read from the road). This may have been due to a local ordinance, but who knows?

Valero / 11206 S. Interstate 35
This opened as a Corner Store in 2016 (with a Valero, of course) but converted to Circle K a few years later with the acquisition of the chain.

Caliber Collision / 11210 S. I-35
Caliber Collision (built in 2017) was built roughly on the site of the Adams Extract building. Adams Extract moved here in 1955 (previously in downtown Austin, and before that, Michigan). When it was built in 1955 at the far fringes of town (at the time), this stretch of I-35 was the "San Antonio Highway". It continued to operate until 2003 shortly after the company was sold to Central Texas Ingredients out of Gonzales (which renamed to Adams Flavors, Foods & Ingredients LLC) and closed the plant here. (Another site has a nighttime shot, which you can see here). Caliber Collision was built in 2017.

Reveal at Onion Creek Apartments / 12000 S. I-35
This sprawling apartment complex was built in the early 2020s.

STATE HIGHWAY 45 to KYLE CROSSING / WINDY HILL ROAD

City Limits Subaru / 14457 I-35
The sprawl between Buda and Austin is not contiguous yet, but it is going that way and there was some space in between. This was built in the early 2020s.

Shell / 14500 S. Interstate 35
This Shell was originally a Texaco (changed to Shell presumably around 2003) and has been here since 1989. A restaurant space near the store (possibly added later) currently has "Abby's Mex Food".

A Chevron nearby at 14444 S. Interstate 45 operated from 1995 to 2014 and was converted into a diesel annex for Shell (with its own logo on the Chevron signage, with white on green). The Chevron's "Food Mart" building is still there but it's closed down. In 2023 the Shell's food mart was rebranded as Refuel, within a few years the diesel canopy got an orange-branded Refuel Diesel canopy while the old food mart became "Refuel Support Center".

Moon Valley Nurseries / 14620 S. I-35
This garden center and plant nursery (larger shrubs and trees only) opened in early 2020, reusing a small building that sat on a large lot. Previously, the space was home to Big Tex Trailers from 2010 to 2016, with a fireworks stand operating prior (according to the oldest Google Maps Street View).

Starbucks / 15295 Interstate 35
Buda's Starbucks location opened in February 2008 as per StarbucksEverywhere. It has a drive-through as per modern Starbucks stores.

Chevron / McDonald's / 15359 I-35
This combination Chevron/McDonald's opened in November 1999. Before the McDonald's side renovated to the "yellow eyebrow" prototype in the early 2010s, there was a playground in front of the store.

Pinballz Kingdom / 15201 S. I-35
From 1979 to 2005 this was the Dorsett 221 Truck Stop. I'm told the gas brand was a Shell before its closure. In 2014, it reopened as Pinballz Kingdom, an Austin-based bar with music and video games. The "Kingdom" name comes from the castle-style building Dorsett 221 Truck Stop had, and the "221" name Dorsett 221 Truck Stop was from the exit number (which doesn't exist anymore following construction projects). While Pinballz Kingdom did open in 2014 as this article states, nearly a decade later, there's no Phase II with mini-golf and go-karts yet.

The address should place it north of Main Street (the previous exit and the main road for Buda) but it is south of the road.

Even before its closure, Dorsett's was a bit of a time warp itself. It was a "rapidly-fading slice of Americana: the family-run truck stop, replete with chicken-fried steak, smoky dining rooms and odd characters coming and going at all hours" according to one newspaper.

Walmart / 690 Old San Antonio Road
This Walmart was built with other stores behind H-E-B and its adjacent strip center, opening in August 2006 (#4219 of course was originally branded as "Wal-Mart Supercenter").

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store / 550 County Road 117
Not long before Cracker Barrel broke ground, County Road 117 was a dirt road that connected directly to the frontage road from Main Street in Buda. This Cracker Barrel location opened in December 2005. To access County Road 117 now the quickest way is through the H-E-B parking lot or Cabela's.

Tractor Supply Co. / 15555 S I-35
TSC (#1600) opened in 2012 on a former road right-of-way (see "Speedy Stop") below.

Chick-fil-A / 15500 S. Interstate 35
Chick-fil-A opened in spring 2019. Like many of the restaurants around it, it was a pad site carved out of the vast parking lot of Cabela's.

Cabela's / 15570 S. I-35
Cabela's opened its hunting and fishing store (185k square feet) in June 2005. It still has some interesting features like a walk-through aquarium, but it basically functions like a smaller Bass Pro. There used to be a restaurant in the upper level but it has since closed and converted to additional retail space.

Ally Medical Emergency Room / 15610 S. Interstate 35
St. David's HealthCare opened a emergency center at 15610 Interstate Highway 35 in January 2019 but pulled the plug on it within a year. In 2024, Ally Medical Emergency Room - Buda filled in the space.

Crestview RV / 15700 S I-35
This RV dealership has part of its showroom across the street. This wasn't like this due to design; construction of Cabela's Drive bisected it. As of this writing, their footprint has been further reduced with the construction of Rylander Street, a new road connecting West Goforth Road with Cabela's Drive.

Burger King / 15705 S. I-35
The Buda Burger King (#17718) is next to the Speedy Stop. It opened in 2010.

Blue Compass RV / 15855 S. I-35
Records show that this was originally "First RV of Buda" in 1994, which was little more than a dirt lot with RVs for sale. Even when Camper Clinic II took over in 2000, it was larger but not nearly the sprawling 13+ acre complex it is today. As for it being "Camper Clinic II", the original "Camper Clinic" was in Rockport, though in 2021 it was sold and rebranded. In September 2023 it became Blue Compass RV.

Speedy Stop / 5065 Royston Road
Royston Road doesn't exist anymore (it's now part of Overpass Road) and connected I-35 to what is now Old Goforth Road (which extended past Overpass to the highway frontage road). The original Shell/Speedy Stop was torn down in October 2021 and reopened December 1, 2022. (The new gas station was self-branded as Speedy Stop). It originally opened in 1999 but expanded the canopy before it was demolished.

Camper Clinic II / 15855 S. I-35
Records show that this was originally "First RV of Buda" in 1994, which was little more than a dirt lot with RVs for sale. Even when Camper Clinic II took over in 2000, it was larger but not nearly the sprawling 13+ acre complex it is today. As for it being "Camper Clinic II", the original "Camper Clinic" was in Rockport, though in 2021 it was sold and rebranded.

Public Storage / 16091 S. I-35
This three-story self-storage facility was built in 2018. While it resembles newer "Public Storage" facilities, there's nothing special about it.

Northern Tool & Equipment / 16290 South I-35
The Buda location of this store opened in late November 2022.

Valero / 16649 S. I-35
The "InstaFuel" station opened in March 2023, featuring "Sharks Burger" and check cashing. As of May 2023, signage has gone up for Taqueria Chapala.

Tuff Shed / 16806 S. I-35
Tuff Shed has been in this location since 2006. The building dates back to 1999.

17100 South Interstate 35
Most recently the home of Griffin Motors. Since its closure in 2020, the main building (a mobile home building) has been attacked with graffiti and has since been removed.

17500 S. Interstate 35
A decaying "Direct Outlet Mall" sign once was the home of a RV dealership (not an actual outlet mall)

United Rentals / 17600 I-35
This opened in 2008 Volvo Rents, which rebranded to BlueLine Rental in 2014 and was purchased by United Rentals in 2018, which rebranded it again around 2019.

Previously this was the site of an RV dealership (Interstate RV Center 1991-1998, Holiday World Austin South 1999-2003, Evergreen RV Austin South 2003-2007).

Valero / 18210 S. I-35
This was originally Sac-N-Pac in 1997, then Stripes in 2015, then 7-Eleven in 2019. The gas station brand was probably originally a Diamond Shamrock.

Kyle Chapman Motor Sales / 18300 S. I-35
Kyle Chapman Motors has two other locations--one in San Marcos and in Austin. This location opened in 2012. Previously it was an Exxon with Sac-N-Pac (despite another Sac-N-Pac being across the street, co-existing since the late 1990s) and a liquor store, R&R Liquors. The entire gas station closed around 2012 and the gas station component (canopy + tanks) was torn down soon after.

A few years after Kyle Chapman Motor Sales, an additional building was built behind the former convenience store building.

Quality Inn & Suites / 18658 S. I-35
This hotel goes back to at least 2002 (about as old as the Burger King, give or take) and during the 2010s and early 2020s had a rough patch of gravel serving as a back-door connection to Burger King for better access to Kyle Crossing and other roads. It was later re-fenced and no longer accessible.

Burger King / 18600 IH-35
Burger King #12220 opened in 1999. Despite a renovation inside and out, it still has an enclosed playscape inside. There's also records that go back to 1996 for another Burger King supposedly in the area ("3799 IH 35") with a different number that I have yet to find. Despite it being in the Kyle area (nominally, it is on the fringe side of town), it still has a Buda address.

KYLE CROSSING / WINDY HILL ROAD to EAST CENTER STREET / FM 150

Exxon / 18701 S. I-35
This Exxon, also known as "Tex Best" (Tex Best Travel Center #53, officially, and no, there aren't 50+ others), is one of the older gas stations in Kyle, dating back to 1986. It seems it picked it up the Tex Best name in 1999 and the Exxon name between 2009 and 2015. (It was a Conoco in the late 2000s).

QuikTrip / 18720 I-35
From what I can find, QuikTrip #4154 opened in July 2021. Less than a year later, another QuikTrip opened closer to Buda at Robert S. Light Boulevard.

18840 S. Interstate 35
A strip center that filled out with tenants in 2022. This is part of the "Dry River District". The Home Depot was opened in 2004 as the first tenant of "Kyle Town Centre" but this never developed and the shopping center was renamed to its current name sometime around 2021. (The Home Depot isn't listed on here anymore due to it having a non-I-35 address). Pizza Patrón opened 9/15/22 according to Community Impact. There's also Tiff's Treats in the same shopping center that opened mid-2022.

Z'Tejas / 18920 S. Interstate 35
Opened October 2023. The opening came months after Z'Tejas closed its original location at 1110 W. 6th Street in mid-March 2023.

P. Terry's Burger Stand / 18940 S. Interstate 35
This Austin-based burger chain with a distinctive architectural style opened in September 2022.

Pollo Campero / 19000 S. Interstate 35
Pollo Camper opened 08/08/2023 (link).

Torchy's Tacos / 19100 S. Interstate 35
Torchy's Tacos opened its Kyle location in early July 2023 as the newest highway-fronting restaurant in the Dry River District.

Denny's / 19020 S. Interstate 35
Denny's, the most recent restaurant entrant into the Dry Creek District as of this writing, opened in December 2022. It is the only 24 hour sit-down establishment in the Kyle/Buda area (the IHOP is no longer 24H).

Costco Wholesale / 19086 Interstate 35
The Kyle, Texas Costco store opened at 8 am on March 30, 2023. Near the Costco is a driveway that connects to the other businesses in the Dry River District and goes back toward Kyle Crossing behind it. This where a residential component, "Citizen House Kyle" was built in 2022 at 3400 Kyle Crossing. Within a year it had changed hands and became "The Chloe around March 2023.

Starbucks / 19140 I-35
The two Kyle Starbucks (excluding a third store that opened in 2007 near the H-E-B Plus) on Interstate 35 opened within a close timeframe of each other. This southbound store on the north side of town opened in October 2021 (per Starbucks Everywhere).

Willie's Grill & Icehouse / 19200 S. Interstate 35
Willie's Grill & Icehouse opened in late July 2023.

19220 S. I-35
Strip mall built around 2022-2023. There's Freebirds World Burrito, Einstein Bros. Bagels opened 7/19/23, "Carbon Health" opened later. (This may be out of date.)

Sunoco / Schlotzsky's / 19350 S. I-35
The original construction here was a Shell gas station with Schlotzsky's and Sac-N-Pac in 2011. In 2015, Stripes took over the convenience store portion (adding a Laredo Taco Company counter) with its then-parent company Sunoco taking over the gas station component soon after. As of February 2020, this was still a Stripes but within two years had become a 7-Eleven with the sale of Stripes to 7-Eleven.

Dutch Bros Coffee / 20325 S. Interstate 35
This West Coast drive-through coffeehouse chain opened in August 2022. It is the second Dutch Bros in Hays County.

Firestone Complete Auto Care / 20301 I-35
This Firestone opened in July 2013 and marks the beginning of The Village at Kyle, a sprawling commercial area across both sides of Kyle Parkway, and is anchored by Lowe's (at the northeast corner) and Walmart (at the southeast corner). There's also a Goodwill there, too.

Arby's / 20417 S. Interstate 35
This Arby's opened in fall 2018 but opened as a Carl's Jr. in the restaurant chain's ill-fated second Texas expansion. Carl's Jr. opened mid-2014 but closed by early 2018.

Taco Cabana / 20445 S. Interstate 35
Taco Cabana opened around June 2016, around the same time as its sister chain Pollo Tropical. While Pollo Tropical sadly didn't last (and was arguably the superior restaurant), TC remains open today (and is not 24 hours, like it was founded on).

Hawaiian Bros Island Grill / 20471 S. I-35
Pollo Tropical arrived in Hays County in May 2016 but closed eleven months later. Its replacement, Hawaiian Bros, opened in April 2021, four years after the demise of Pollo Tropical.

RBFCU / 20613 IH-35
RBCFU, short for Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union, opened a location in Kyle in November 2015, which the credit union helpfully mentions on its site. In some references, the "South" I-35 is dropped but the address numbering continues.

Exxon / KFC / Long John Silver's / 20925 I-35
Despite the corporation separation of KFC and Long John Silver's back in 2011 and the heavy closures that have rocked the combo stores and Long John Silver's alike, you can still find both here in 2022.

The convenience store portion opened as Sac-N-Pac in 2002, converted to a Stripes around 2015 and again to 7-Eleven in 2020.

Lex Word Building / 21001 I-35
Also known as and holding exclusively the Hays Central Appraisal District, this small office building is only accessible from the frontage road. When it was built in 1994 and all the way up to 2013, the frontage road was two-way.

Poco Loco Market / 21140 Interstate 35
Poco Loco Market #5 opened here in May 2019; it tends to have cheaper gas than competition.

Just south of the Poco Loco is Old Burleson Road. There's some signage, but the road has been closed off to vehicular traffic, and the curb was rebuilt. This happened sometime in 2020, with the road restriped to just merging lanes. Formerly, the right-most lane was a right-hand only lane into the road.

Saddle Creek / 21393 I-35
This apartment complex (next to Plum Creek, actually) was built around the mid-2000s.

CubeSmart Self Storage / 21400 I-35
This was built around late 2008 as Private Mini Storage and got its current name in the early-to-mid 2010s.

Goodyear Auto Service / 22231 I-35
Goodyear Auto Service is the first tenant down I-35 on Center Street Village, a failed shopping center that has some big signage for just a few outlots, as years ago H-E-B (which was supposed to anchor it) pulled out, leaving just a few scattered businesses along I-35. A plan can be seen on Loopnet with another article written about the affair.

AutoZone / 22373 I-35
AutoZone opened in 2006 at Center Street Village.

O'Reilly Auto Parts / 22387 I-35
This auto parts store opened in early 2015. Its competition, AutoZone, just to the north, came to Kyle around 2006.

Starbucks / 22449 I-35
This Starbucks, like its sister store on the north side of Kyle, opened in March 2022.

7-Eleven / 22553 I-35
This 7-Eleven was opened in 2013 around the same time FM 150 West was re-routed to curl around toward Center Street.

EAST CENTER STREET / FM 150 to YARRINGTON ROAD

Casa Maria Mexican Restaurant / 22604 I-35
This new-build Mexican restaurant opened in 2012. It replaced a small warehouse (no tenant) with a similar footprint.

Dairy Queen / 22601 Interstate 35
While it has been renovated since, the Dairy Queen in Kyle has been here since the early 1970s (1973 or 1975, hard to nail down).

Valero / 22801 Interstate 35
Located at the end of what was FM 150 (now Hill Street following the re-routing), this Valero also has 7-Eleven. It was converted to 7-Eleven in 2019 from Stripes, which had converted the convenience store from Sac-N-Pac in 2015.

The history of this station has been hard to nail down. The gas canopies were rebuilt around 2010 (previously a smaller canopy perpendicular to the store) and was likely a Diamond Shamrock originally, but it appears to have been Sac-N-Pac since 1987.

Cedar Supply Inc. / 23400 I-35
This was A&C Cedar Inc. from 1983 to 1987, with Cedar Supply Inc. from 1988 on (it's the same company, they just changed names). There aren't many places in Hays County where the railroad has a spur (it is, after all, an Amtrak route), but this is one of them. Past Yarrington Road is where the numbering resets for San Marcos.