THE ROADS OF COLLEGE STATION - Harvey Road

HARVEY ROAD

This page covers Harvey Road (Highway 30) from its start in Texas Avenue to Boonville Road (the Highway 30 designation continues southeast, but the numbering continues to Elmo Weedon Road. This page does not include items that are already covered on Brazos Buildings & Businesses. You can see some of the Harvey Road content found on the map.

Version 6.0 revives the page by focusing on things that aren't currently covered.

Additions: Sausalito Apartments, Exxon (1601), Veterans Memorial Park, VIVERE Life College Station, Exxon (3500), and Chem-Dry of Brazos County
Updates: Pro-Tec Auto Repair, Sundance Apartments, Shell, and C&J Barbeque
Removals: Advance Auto Parts, 1704 George Bush Drive East, Fazoli's, Connecting Point Church, Pearl Apartments, Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q, Sonic Drive-In, Ozona Grill & Bar, Valero, 620 Harvey Road, Woodstone Center, Post Oak Village, Post Oak Square, Guitar Center, The Ivy, The Grand 1501, and Carter Creek Condos


SOUTH TEXAS AVENUE (BUS-6) to DARTMOUTH STREET

Highway 30 (Harvey Road) starts here with a large shopping center anchored by Kohl's.

Wolf Creek Car Wash / 300 Harvey Road
Named after Wolf Pen Creek that runs behind the facility, this also does oil changes. It features a Chevron sign above the main road sign (changed sometime around 2019 to current colors), despite not being a gas station.

Taco Bell / 310 Harvey Road
This Taco Bell (from 1981) did a major remodel/expansion in the early 2000s. I believe it was temporarily closed during that time.

Pro-Tec Auto Repair / 601 Harvey Road
This opened in 1987 as Precision Tune, then briefly becoming "Performance Tune-Up", reopened as "Precision Tune-Up Plus" in 1993 (renamed to Tune-Up Plus afterward). The current business opened in 2011, with "X-Press Auto Repair" here from 2002 to 2010.

Brazos Star Credit Union / 701 Harvey Road
This opened as First State Bank (of Caldwell) in 1986 and merged with First American Bank in 1996, and later became Citibank in 2004 when they bought FAB. Citibank closed this branch around 2009, and FedStar Credit Union opened this branch in 2010.

Between 2018 and 2021, FedStar Credit Union changed the name of its branch here (they had changed the name officially in 2016) to its current name.

Sundance Apartments / 811 Harvey Road
These apartments were constructed in the late 1970s, the Sundance Apartments name dates back to day one, though I can't find an exact opening. See 1001 Harvey Road.


DARTMOUTH DRIVE to EARL RUDDER FREEWAY

This stoplight has barriers to prevent access from Dartmouth to the shopping center. The next light, Munson, has the same thing. I wish that they blasted through some property to make Dartmouth and Munson one road, but the residents of Munson fought tooth and nail for years to prevent Munson from being a useful north-south corridor.

Sausalito Apartments / 1001 Harvey Road
Sausalito Apartments was built in 1976 as part of a major project that include Sundance Apartments (see above) and Woodstone Center (see Brazos Buildings & Businesses). While Woodstone became its own identity, Sundance and Sausalito continue to be marketed together.

Plantation Oaks Center / 1401-1409 Harvey Road
This small strip center was built as a commercial companion to Plantation Oaks Apartments (above). Its current tenants include EZ Stop (1401 Harvey), built as a 7-Eleven, sold to E-Z Mart in the early 1990s with the other local 7-Eleven stores, and separated from the chain in the early 2000s, along with Donald's Donuts (1403 Harvey), HairCuts 4U, Pro Soccer (both sharing 1405 Harvey), and 1409 Harvey (Washateria Coin Laundry and Metro by T-Mobile). There's no 1407 Harvey for some reason.

Chuy's Tex-Mex / 1512 Harvey Road
Opened sometime in January 2010, this popular chain restaurant opened in underused parking space in the mall facing the freeway.

BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse / 1520 Harvey Road
In July 2011, a second full-service restaurant opened in front of the mall, but these two were the only ones rather than the whole frontage. In retrospect, the lots were probably sold by Sears, which commanded that part of the parking lot and part of the slow dismantling of the chain.

Exxon / 1601 Harvey Road
This Exxon opened in 1987 and shut down in the mid-2000s. When it reopened in 2012 it lacked the "rising sun" shop logo (example here, lost source--from Michael Doty who in turn got it from Facebook, and who knows where that came from!) as well as not reopening the car wash. The whole station may be rebuilt in the near future.


EARL RUDDER FREEWAY to BOONVILLE ROAD (FM 158) / TEXAS STATE HIGHWAY 30

Earl Rudder Freeway can be accessed through this page. Harvey Road goes to two lanes at this point and jumps up in numbering.

Shell / 2601 Harvey Road
Built as a Chevron in 1996, this was converted to a Shell sometime around the mid-2000s. Around 2023 it was closed and rebuilt, reopening as Aurora #105 (the fifth one) but remaining a Shell.

Baymont Inn & Suites / 2611 Harvey Road
Hotel built in 2015, their site can be seen here.

Veterans Memorial Park / 3101 Harvey Road
Large flagship park developed by College Station around the mid-2000s.

Oakwood Crossing / 3210 Harvey Road
Built around 2018-2019, this apartment complex (266 units) was originally called "Ariza" (part of a "chain" of apartment complexes).

VIVERE Life College Station / 3211 Harvey Road
This was built in 2019 as Sodalis College Station (assisted living facility) and rebranded as VIVERE Life College Station in July 2026. Senior Assisted Living & Care in College Station

Exxon / 3500 Harvey Road
This opened circa 2022 with a "Buy Buy" convenience store (or Buybuy) but it has Hangar 54 Pizza and Big Madre Tacos, both licensed concepts.

Koppe Bridge Bar & Grill / 3940 Harvey Road
This restaurant opened in August 2002 at the long-defunct site of Jose's (which moved to Bryan in the early 1990s after their building at 4004 Harvey burned down).

C&J Barbeque / 4304 Harvey Road
C&J Grocery opened in 1981 as a small store and gas station, but later focused on barbecue entirely. The old gas brand isn't known at this time (if they even had one).


BOONVILLE ROAD (FM 158) / TEXAS STATE HIGHWAY 30

The designation of Highway 30 continues southeast from here, but takes a new numbering system. The road itself continues eastward and finally "gives up" the Highway 30 designation on the east side of Huntsville, but continues as US-190 (picked up when it crossed I-45) and that continues to Newton, Texas. I will cover at least one token Elmo Weedon address.

Chem-Dry of Brazos County / 5400 Elmo Weedon Road
Chem-Dry of Brazos County moved here in 2002.


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