Brazos Christian School / 3000 W. Villa Maria Road
Private religious school Brazos Christian School opened here around 1994 after more than a decade of hosting at churches (in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was at Grace Bible Church at 701 Anderson).
Saint Luke's United Methodist Church / 2700 W. Villa Maria Road
Newspaper archives show this this church opening this location in 2010. It has no access from Villa Maria Road, but rather from Woodfield Drive.
Bryan Fire Department Station 5 / 2052 W. Villa Maria Road
This fire department officially opened March 2009.
Branch Elementary School / 2040 W. Villa Maria Road
Also known as Mary Branch Elementary School, this school opened in fall 1990.
TruFit Athletic Clubs / 1900 West Villa Maria Rd. This used to be Aerofit Health & Fitness (the original one and later one of three locations) until October 1, 2017 when it became TruFit. It originally featured racquetball inside and a tennis court outside, the tennis court went away after TruFit bought them out. Check out this opening ad, it has a site plan!
Wings 'N More Express / 1561 W. Villa Maria Road
Part of the "Mark Dennard's Original" Wings 'N More chain (not franchised) this restaurant opened in 2010.
Domino's / 1525 W. Villa Maria Road
This Domino's began operations in 2018.
Dollar General / 1314 W. Villa Maria Road
This Dollar General opened in January 2005. There are also two smaller retail spaces that remained vacant for years. One of them, Pro Cleaners & Alterations, in Suite 600, finally opened in 2018. This is to the left of the store. The other suite, 200, still remains vacant.
Enercon / 1312 W. Villa Maria Road
Also known as Enercon Windows and Hardware, LLC, this opened as Ron's Ace Hardware in 1984 (older versions of this page referred it to as "Doug's Ace Hardware", though that was incorrect) and in 2005 was sold to Enercon. Enercon closed their old location and focused mostly on services, though continues to offer a small hardware selection.
Oaks of Villa Maria / 1305 W. Villa Maria Road
This condominium complex (website here) was built in 1983. True to its name, it is surrounded by trees on both sides (at least for now, future development will likely change that). There's a clearing just east of the condominium at the intersection of Forestwood Drive. This was the site of 1001 W. Villa Maria Road, a bank built in 1985. From what I can find, it was Western National Bank until it seized by the FDIC in 1988, then became part of First State Bank of Caldwell in 1989, then sold to First American Bank in 1996, which in turn was sold to Citibank in 2004, then BB&T in 2014 when Citibank sold its banks here. It closed sometime in 2018 and in May 2019 suffered a significant fire that showed damage on the outside. The building and its parking lot were completely demolished a few years later.
West University Gardens / 999 W. Villa Maria Road
This detached apartment complex (b. 1994) fronts Villa Maria Road and has a signaled intersection with Willis Vanhook Drive (named as such in 2013, though had been extant since the completion of the overpass in 2007).
Topgolf / 400 West Villa Maria Road
This opened as BigShots Golf (see above) and renamed to Topgolf in 2024 following a merger.
Shipley Do-Nuts / 210 E. Villa Maria Road
Shipley Do-Nuts has been here since it opened in late 1988. The big cube-like sign originally rotated but it hasn't done so in years; even the panels were replaced after an early-2010s storm that destroyed the older (brown and white) logo.
Valero / 300 East Villa Maria Road
This store (built in 1985) had a "sister" in College Station that started out as a Circle K, then became Conoco, then Diamond Shamrock (with Handi Stop) before becoming a Texaco. It split ways when the convenience store became Apple Stop before becoming a Valero. At some point, however (2002-2004) it did become a Speedy Stop, possibly in the latter Conoco days.
Dairy Queen / 413 East Villa Maria Road
"Dairy Queen #3" (based on the local Dairy Queen franchise's numbering, not the system's) moved here in 1983 in a new store (formerly located catty-corner) at Texas and Villa Maria. They did an exterior renovation in early 2026.
601 East Villa Maria Road
While we won't cover the Tejas Center (former Manor East Mall) in this update--I've got a full page on that coming soon, there is a building at the direct corner of Texas Avenue and Villa Maria Road that I'd like to cover that contains a bank and a Starbucks. The Starbucks opened in November 2006 according to Starbucks Everywhere. The bank was originally a First Victoria Bank, but following their merger with Prosperity Bank in 2013, was shuttered. It later became Commerce National Bank (part of Amarillo National Bank) and was eventually rebranded as a full "ANB".
McDonald's / 825 East Villa Maria Road
This McDonald's opened as Manor East Mall's first outlot spot in December 1978. In the early 2000s it was torn down and rebuilt; since then it has undergone renovations to match corporate's current prototype.
712 East Villa Maria Road
This strip center was built in 2016 and initially had a Mattress One as a tenant. In November 2017, El Taco Loco opened at the opposite end. By summer 2018, both were gone. Staffing Texas joined between the former Mattress One and the former El Taco Loco, with Jesse's Taqueria #2 replacing El Taco Loco. By 2022 Victory Lending had shown up in part of the former Mattress One and Jesse's Taqueria had been replaced with Don Chente Mexican & Seafood Restaurant. This is how it was configured in November 2025.
The original 712 East Villa Maria was a much smaller lot (it absorbed a vacant lot next door, which still had a single family residence as of 2007). The building, directly next to what is currently Villa Maria Cleaners, was built in 1961 as Brazos Tile and Floor Covering Company. In 1968, Cliff's Fence & Supply joined nearby. This originally shared the address of the building but by 1971 was at 714 (same building) with a new name, Allied Fence Company (same ownership, Cliff Lynch). By early 1973 both businesses were gone and the building was empty. sly) and by early 1973 Brazos Tile was gone. In 1976 Texas Furniture Outlet opened and operated until 1986 when it closed and became Broz Sport Shop in September 1986, which closed at the end of 1991. By mid-1992 it became Cash & Carry Carpet and by mid-1995, Wilton's OfficeWorks, which bowed out by 1997 (it appears to have moved out and eventually merged with subsidiary Office Furmiture USA. In 2000 it became the clearance center for The Sleep Station, and then in 2002 the last home of Pop-Abilities, a local gift basket operation that had been around since the 1980s. I believe that Brazos Furniture Clearance Center (aka Brazos Furniture Gallery) opened in 2005. I'm pretty sure they even reused the Pop-Abilities sign by using the reverse side, as when it burnt down in September 2011, I remembered a pink-and-black sign peeling off, and the font I believe was the same. Anyway, it didn't exactly "burn down" but enough of a problem where the building was damaged and they had a fire sale shortly afterward for smoke/water damaged furniture that could be salvaged, and was torn down by the end of 2012.
Tejas Market / 1101 E. Villa Maria Road
According to Brazos CAD, this gas station dates back to 1969. The relative recent history of this gas station was it was a Texaco in the 1990s and very early 2000s. In 2003, it converted to Shell and remained as such for years, even upgrading to electronic signage in 2011. In 2017 it dropped the brand for what could be described as "Circle P" for the gas and store alike but by 2018 adopted the "Tejas Market" name. It is surrounded on adjacent corners by Sul-Mar Center (a full post is coming soon, but not on this page) but isn't accessible to it.
Quesadilla Peke's / 1124 East Villa Maria Road
This used to be a Shell station, though at some point in the 1990s, the Shell closed and the lot was redeveloped as a Bahama Buck's. Unfortunately, the poor access doomed the snow cone shop (some years later, a new Bahama Buck's opened off of Holleman Drive East, which was successful). It stayed open for no more than 18 months. It later became Texas Car Title & Payday Loan. In the late 2010s there were a few restaurants that tried to make a go of the spot but all failed, including La Iguana Loka and Pappas Kolaches Cafe (no, not that Pappas). Quesadilla Peke's opened in 2021.
One of the only remaining elements of the old Shell that was kept was its partially arched road sign.
MNTL Barbell Club / 1700 E. Villa Maria Road
MNTL Barbell Club opened in the early 2020s from what used to be Chapman's Paint Company. While Chapman's Paint Company has found a new a home at 2905 East Villa Maria Road (see down the page), it's missing their quirky paint bucket sign that 1700 used to have. It was originally known as Chapman's Paint & Wallpaper when it opened in March 1973, and replaced their old facility at 811 S. Texas Avenue.
Bryan Collegiate High School / 1901 East Villa Maria Road
Bryan Collegiate High School opened 2007 at the "Lamar Campus" (9th grade from 1991 to 1999) which was a largely unused campus except for temporary uses at that point. I'm still not sure of its history.
Beacon Baptist Church / 2001 E. Villa Maria Road
This church has been here since the mid-1970s.
Mobley Pool Company / 2004 E. Villa Maria Road
The first mention of this address I can find is the new location of Hardy Gardens (moving from 1127 Villa Maria Road) back in 1981 before closing in summer 1995. Mobley Pool Company moved in soon after.
Central Texas Gastroenterology Consultants / 2206 E. Villa Maria Road
This was built in 2000. It moved from a different location.
Shell / 2305 East Villa Maria Road
This Shell gas station opened July 2019, and was the first "Aurora" gas station (with drive-through daiquiris). Previously, it was a Chevron and closed around 2014. This Chevron had a garage in lieu of a convenience store, and after sitting vacant for a few years was demolished for the current gas station, which faces East 29th rather than Villa Maria like Chevron did.
Blinn College - Bryan Administration / 2608 East Villa Maria Road
As of 2007, this was Bethel Temple Assembly of God. By 2012 it was home to Rivergate Church, and in the early 2020s the building was torn down for the new administration building of Blinn College - Bryan.
2901 E. Villa Maria Road
An old, crummy gas station was here (simply signed as "Quick Mart", then became "QuikTime" and paired with the logo of the fly-by-night taqueria that was operating there (changing every few years) and demolished in the early 2020s (probably closed for a few years before that). In the late 2000s and early 2010s it was branded with Summit gas. The earliest records I can find for this store is "Lee's Grocery" back in 1969.
Chapman's Paint Warehouse / 2905 East Villa Maria Road
Chapman's Paint Warehouse moved here in the late 2010s.
