This page is designed to cover Texas Avenue entries for Bryan and College Station that haven't been (and likely will never be) on Brazos Buildings & Businesses. In some cases, there might be exports but this is largely for those that wouldn't have gotten an entry. It merges in Texas Avenue in Bryan and covers three roads, North Texas Avenue (to East 26th Street), South Texas Avenue (to the Bryan City Limits), and Texas Avenue South (to Highway 6 South). This is not an exhaustive list of everything on the road. If an entry isn't here check the main blog, as dozens of entries have been added there. As a result of the changes, Version 10 removes a lot more than it adds, even when incorporating the Bryan entries. But don't worry, the ones that were removed were almost ALL redundant ones that we have covered on the site.

Version 10 makes a number of changes as part of this redo.

Imported from Bryan page (may include updates): Lampo's Grocery, Dollar General (North Texas Avenue), Handi Stop, Producers Cooperative Association, U.S. Renal Care, AutoZone (Highway 21), Exxon (at MLK), Cleaning Solutions (formerly titled as "600 N. Texas Avenue"), Church's Texas Chicken, Hot Dogs & Wings Etc., Castrol Premium Rapid Lube, Dairy Queen (Bryan), Truist (Bryan), Caliber Collision, McDonald's (Bryan), Whataburger (902 S. Texas Avenue), Sonic Drive-In (914 S. Texas Avenue), Nita's Flowers, Taco Bell (at Homestead Street), Brazos Feed & Supply, La Michoacana Meat Market, Kesco Food Service Equipment, Dollar General (1709 S. Texas Avenue), O'Reilly Auto Parts (1711 S. Texas Avenue), Holiday Plaza Motel, Casa Loma Motel, Readfield Meats & Deli, Drew's Car Wash (Bryan), Whataburger (3109 S. Texas Avenue), Verizon (3210 S. Texas Avenue), KFC (3321 S. Texas Avenue), Midtown Center, The Vintage Circle, Brazos Valley Dental Arts, 4101 S. Texas Avenue, and 4103 S. Texas Avenue.
Additions: Prosperity Bank, Take 5 Oil Change, Taquerias y Restaurant El Sol de Mexico, Starbucks (910 S. Texas Avenue), 1002 S. Texas Avenue, AutoZone (Glenwood), T-Mobile, 1055 Texas Avenue S., College Station City Hall, Visit College Station, Stanton Optical, Texas Avenue Dental, Comfort Suites, Discount Tire, 2561 Texas Avenue South, The Creek Place, SmartStop Self Storage, and D&D Movers.
Removals: 4401 Texas Avenue South, First Watch, Econo Lodge, 200 Texas Avenue South, Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott, Super 8, Hampton Inn by Hilton, Coldwell Banker, Legacy Tattoo Lounge, Exxon (University Drive East), U-Haul Moving & Storage (University Drive East), Fuego Tortilla Grill, 607 Texas Avenue South, Las Palapas, Lone Star Pavilion, Lupe Tortilla, Valero (at Lincoln), Layne's of College Station, Torchy's Tacos, Raising Cane's, University Flowers, Chili's, Texas Avenue Crossing, Whataburger, 1501 Texas Avenue South, 1503 Texas Avenue South, Jack in the Box, Aggieland Boutique Hotel, Redtex Center, Central Station, Harvey Washbanger's, 1808 Texas Avenue South, H-E-B, Chase, 2001 Texas Avenue South, 2002 Texas Avenue South, Havertys Furniture, 2006-2050 Texas Avenue South, Target, Outback Steakhouse, 2307 Texas Avenue South, Big O Tires, Walgreens (at Brentwood), Drew's Car Wash, Parkway Square, NailSpa, Park Place Plaza, Red Roof Inn, Days Inn, 2502 Texas Avenue South, Domino's, Truist, Walmart, Exxon (at Harvey Mitchell Parkway S.), O'Reilly Auto Parts (at Morgans Lane), Brazos Valley Pools & Spas, Ashley & Company, 3125 Texas Avenue South, Burger King, Wingate by Wyndham, and America's Best Value Inn & Suites.
Updates: Park Central, Texas 707 (retitled from "707-709 Texas Avenue South"), Thrifted Threads (formerly titled as "815 Texas Avenue South"), Rock n' Roll It (formerly titled as "817 Texas Avenue South"), Exxon (at Harvey Road), CVS/pharmacy (at Southwest Parkway), Midas Auto Systems Experts, U-Haul Moving & Storage (at Harvey Mitchell Parkway S.), and Brazos Spine.

NORTH EARL RUDDER FREEWAY to E. WILLIAM JOEL BRYAN PARKWAY

Lampo's Grocery / 4311 N. Texas Avenue
Lampo's Grocery has been here in some form since 1970. It is essentially a small old-school Exxon with just two self-service pumps but despite losing the Exxon name by the early 2010s, it still pumps gas.

Dollar General / 3706 N. Texas Avenue
The Dollar General opened in fall 2014. There really isn't much to say about it, other than adding it for completion purposes.

Handi Stop / 2805 N. Texas Avenue
This was built as a UtoteM store back in 1966, when this part of Texas Avenue was very much the main highway. Around 1982, it was rebuilt with a new fuel canopy, and as a result became one of the few modern Circle K stores to stick around into the late 1990s after UtoteM was bought and converted in 1984 and the subsequent closures. Their history probably mirrored the Longmire Drive Circle K closely but at some point, it became an Exxon before a point between 2016 and 2021 (possibly as early as the 2000s when other stations switched to Diamond Shamrock), when it dropped the Exxon brand and just became a fuel center (with Handi Stop sticking around, of course).

Producers Cooperative Association / 1800 North Texas Avenue
This grain mill is a major agricultural supply center and sells other products too (check their website). It has an active rail spur.

U.S. Renal Care / 1612 N. Texas Avenue
Built as DSI Bryan Dialysis (converted to U.S. Renal Care between 2016 and 2017) was built adjacent to AutoZone.

AutoZone / 1610 North Texas Avenue
AutoZone #3966 opened in summer 2007 as a stand-alone store with a back entrance onto North Sims Avenue.

Prosperity Bank / 1500 North Texas Avenue
Opened as First Federal Savings Bank in May 1998 and converted to Prosperity Bank in 2002 due to a merger.

Take 5 Oil Change / 1510 N. Texas Avenue
This was developed around the same time Poco Loco Supermercado opened, around 2023 since that's when the store opened.

Exxon / 801 N. Texas Avenue
This was a Conoco gas station since around 1999 (also known as Petro Barn, or its tobacco sublease Tobacco Barn), by 2021 it converted to Brookshire Brothers Fuel (apparently like all the other Conoco stations in Brookshire Brothers parking lots) but by 2022 it was an Exxon. The closest Brookshire Brothers pharmacy is in downtown Bryan with a store even farther away (Hearne, College Station).

My notes indicate the whole station was branded as Petro Barn at one point but I can't find when that ever happened as Street View shows it as a Conoco from 2007 to 2018.

Taquerias y Restaurant El Sol de Mexico / 705 N. Texas Avenue
This was established as a Tinsley's Chicken 'n Rolls back in 1977. When the chain sold to Church's (#1496) in 1985, it still co-existed with another store a few blocks away (507) until 1998, at which it became Don's Seafood & Restaurant in 1999 (to 2001), then Marisco's Lasirena Seafood. The current restaurant, Taquerias y Restaurant El Sol de Mexico, has been here since 2003.

Cleaning Solutions / 600 N. Texas Avenue
This was "Butcher Block" in the 1980s and then eventually closed and reopened Ed's Butcher Block around 1991. In 2020 this closed and changed hands again to become Texas Meat Market, which operated here from July 2020 to August 2022 when a devastating fire shut them down. It was later renovated and reopened as Cleaning Solutions.

Church's Texas Chicken / 507 N. Texas Avenue
This Church's (Texas) Chicken opened in 1972. There was another Church's located at 705 (talk about confusing) that is no longer in operation.

Hot Dogs & Wings Etc. / 310 N. Texas Avenue
This was Archie's 39¢ Hamburger Place from 1986 to 1990. In 1990, it became Hot Dogs Etc. (later and also known as Hot Dogs & Wings Etc.), which it is today.

Castrol Premium Rapid Lube / 301 N. Texas Avenue
At least as far back as the mid-2000s and until 2022 this was a Shell lube center, complementing the Shell gas station catty-corner but with its conversion to Sunoco this is no longer the case (Google Maps Street View reveals that as of August 2022, the lube had converted but the Shell was still Shell).

This was a Texaco (Alford's Texaco) in the 1980s and from approximate 1989 to 1999, Lube King, a local quick-lube chain. That's not the picture of the Lube King that was there, that's just what Lube Kings looked like in general.

Dairy Queen / 205 N. Texas Avenue

This Dairy Queen has been here since c. 1976 and still branded as a Dairy Queen at last check.

E. WILLIAM JOEL BRYAN PARKWAY to S. COULTER DRIVE

Truist / 201 S. Texas Avenue
This was Bogard Motors as of 1968 and from sometime around 1971 to 1989 it was Barnett Motors. By 1992 it was operating as First American Bank, which was acquired by Citibank in 2005, then sold to BB&T in 2014. It was rebranded to Truist in 2022 following BB&T's merger with SunTrust Bank.

Caliber Collision / 601 S. Texas Avenue
Caliber Collision opened at this former car dealership in 2011 (and repaved the parking lot). Formerly, it was Palmer Kia (2006-2009), Cooters Cars (2003-2006), Sterling Pontiac Buick GMC (2000-2003), Lawrence Marshall Pontiac Buick GMC (1997-2000), and Quality Pontiac Buick GMC (1975-1997).

McDonald's / 700 S. Texas Avenue
This McDonald's opened in 1996 with a Playplace, and received an exterior renovation in 2011-2012.

Whataburger / 902 South Texas Avenue
Whataburger #43 was not originally here--it was at 1101 S. Texas Avenue until the late 1980s when it built a new building and moved here. In late 2025 this was closed for a reconstruction to reopen in early 2026.

Starbucks / 910 S. Texas Avenue
Starbucks opened here in February 2024. As late as August 2022 it was the previous tenant, The Rusty Muffler.

Sonic Drive-In / 914 S. Texas Avenue
The first Sonic restaurant in Bryan opened in 1987, the restaurant was rebuilt in 2006.

Nita's Flowers / 919 S. Texas Avenue
Nita's Flowers has been here since 1982. The building appears to have been converted into commercial use in 1975 but was originally a house.

Taco Bell / 920 S. Texas Ave.
Taco Bell was built in the late 1980s but rebuilt around in the mid-2000s.

1002 S. Texas Avenue
This was Hi-Lo Auto Supply #56 when it opened in 1983 (ten years after its College Station counterpart) and converted to O'Reilly Auto Parts in 1998. It moved to 1711 S. Texas Avenue in 2007 and abandoned since.

Brazos Feed & Supply / 1200 S. Texas Avenue
Located at the "Bend", Brazos Feed & Supply (here since the early 1980s) used to be a "Purina Feed Center" affiliate, and despite some Purina logos still prominent around the building, today BF&S is affiliated with Bluebonnet Feeds. It also mentions (on signage) the Purina "Chow" brand. As I might've mentioned in my other stuff, the Purina brand separated back in the mid-1980s, with BP taking Purina Mills and essentially licensing the name.

These days, Purina Mills is owned by Land O'Lakes and the rest of the Purina company (pet food, including "Chow") is owned by Nestlé. Both of these transactions happened in 2001.

La Michoacana Meat Market / 1322 S. Texas Avenue
This Houston-based specialty store opened around December 2003 according to existing records in a new building.

SOUTH COULTER DRIVE to EAST VILLA MARIA DRIVE

Kesco Food Service Equipment / 1411 S. Texas Avenue
Also known as Kesco Supply, this relocated here in 2001 from 1418 N. Texas Avenue. Many years ago, it was the home to Halsell Motor Co. Incorporated.

AutoZone / 1640 S. Texas Avenue
This moved from the Ridgecrest shopping center in the 3500 block in 1996.

Dollar General / 1709 S. Texas Avenue
Dollar General opened here around December 2009 as a new-build structure. It connects to O'Reilly's parking lot (see below)

O'Reilly Auto Parts / 1711 S. Texas Ave.
O'Reilly Auto Parts #456 opened here in 2007. The rest of the lot was developed as Dollar General within a year or two (see above).

Holiday Plaza Motel / 1720 South Texas Avenue
Co-existing with the Holiday Inn at one time (see below, under 2300), the Holiday Plaza Motel is another aging motel (built in the mid-1950s) with its best days behind it. Below the sign, it reads "VACANCY", which naturally if you knew anything about motels, given the space before "VACANCY", it probably read "NO VACANCY" at one time (old motels would light up the "NO" if they got filled up). It used to read "COFFEE SHOP" though I don't think the coffee shop had operated for many years by that point. Here's a great picture from Flickr.

Casa Loma Motel / 2000 S. Texas Avenue
This motel has been here since 1950. It isn't known if the Casa Loma name is original or not, but the name has been there since the late 1970s.

Readfield Meats & Deli / 2701 S. Texas Ave.
Due to much press about the potential closure of Readfield Meats, I had written a blog post on it, then scrapped it when it was sold to new ownership. Despite signage saying it has been there since 1960, its origins come from Serv-U-Right Meat Market (also known as Barcelona's Meat Market) was on the scene in 1923 (possibly earlier) by Tony Barcelona at 22nd and Bryan Avenue owned by Tony Barcelona, until 1958 when it was sold to Gilford Thomas, who renamed it as Readfield Wholesale Meats. By 1960 it was known as Readfield Meat Company and owned by John Ruffino.

Meanwhile, 2701 S. Texas Avenue started out as Hanson's Frozen Food Service in 1961, but it very quickly switched, to Hanson Meats & Freezer Service and then to Hanson Meat Company by summer 1962. In 1968 the business was closed and to become Manning & Bond Foods. This arrangement proved only temporary, and in 1968, Readfield Wholesale Meats moved to the spot.

EAST VILLA MARIA DRIVE to NORTH ROSEMARY DRIVE

Drew's Car Wash / 3030 S. Texas Avenue
This was Allied Rent-All back in the mid-1980s, later known as We Rent It, and eventually WRI Outdoors. It built a new location off at 740 N. Harvey Mitchell before closing this smaller facility in the late 2010s after both had been running for a while. Following the closure, Drew's Car Wash built an entirely new facility here in August 2021, though it recycled the main building structure.

Despite the Texas Avenue address, WRI did not have direct access to Texas Avenue, and neither does Drew's.

Whataburger / 3109 S. Texas Avenue
This stand-alone Whataburger opened in December 2007 in the former Wal-Mart parking lot area of the Tejas Center.

Verizon / 3210 South Texas Avenue
Cellular Sales d/b/a Verizon has been here since 2010. It previously was the home Kirby Sales & Service (2002-2010), which serviced and sold Kirby vacuum cleaners, which was owned by JK and Associates (3212 Texas Avenue South) next door. Before that, it was a Midas muffler shop that was here from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. (The building may be even older, but that's for another update).

KFC / 3321 S. Texas Ave.
A Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant has been here since 1969 (initially and incorrectly addressed as 3320), though the building only dates back to the 1980s. I seem to recall that this had a large "bucket" display even into the early 2000s, but it's been gone prior to the first Google Maps Street View image in 2007.

Midtown Center / 3800-3816 S. Texas Avenue
This little shopping center (dates back to 1969) has a name and a lease plan (seen here, archived from here. The stores here currently include Morgan Fitzgerald's (3800), which includes a Merle Norman Cosmetics inside. 3806 was previously Good Life Wellness Center (the nearby "Jacque's" sign uncovered is from the 1990s). 3808 is The Petal Patch (moved here in 2011, from what I can determine, it is the florists' fourth location since the mid-1970s) but the current owner closed the storefront due to family issues in December 2022, and later (per TexAgs) ended up shutting down entirely by the following spring, ending a legacy of over 45 years of business.

3808B is Park Avenue Hair Salon, 3810 and 3812 have been vacant for at least ten years, and Sherwin-Williams Paints (3814) has been here since day one, apparently (definitely since the 1970s).

The Vintage Circle / 3828 South Texas Avenue
This 1939 building was updated in 1981 to allow the move-in of Half Price Books, which it was from 1982 to 2000. A few years later, MacResource Computers & Service, one of the area's authorized Mac repair centers, moved from the southeast corner of Dodge and College Avenue and moved out around 2018-2019 to 501 Graham (now 12th Man Technology). The Vintage Circle, an antiques store, has been here since 2021.

Brazos Valley Dental Arts / 3832 South Texas Avenue
This building was built c. 1961 as the "Oakwood Professional Building" and in the mid-1970s, suite A and B were listed as Calculator Service Systems, which sold and repaired calculators. It appears it was renovated into dental offices in the late 1980s (I believe the BVDA name was adopted later) and the website as of this writing indicates that Dr. Tamie Erratt was one of the original dentists at this practice (working at this facility as of 1998). Dr. Erratt is semi-retired at this point and it would be a fools errand to update this for the various dentists that have come and gone here (in the late 1990s, a dentist by the name of Williams also shared the building, for instance).

4101 S. Texas Avenue
This office building (two suites), currently hosting temp staffing company Spherion and About Town Realty, has been here since 1975. Suite A formerly held Kling Engineering & Surveying (an associated group still holds control on the building) and suite B (where Spherion is now) used to be a Remax office.

4103 S. Texas Avenue
This building has "Twin City Properties.com" prominently on the outside of the building and on the signage. Twin City Properties Management takes up suite 1000 of the 1975 office building, but there are over a dozen smaller offices that occupy the plaza.

NORTH ROSEMARY DRIVE to UNIVERSITY DRIVE / UNIVERSITY DRIVE EAST

Park Central / 4403-4421 S. Texas Avenue
This shopping center has been here since the late 1970s. A Loopnet listing can be seen here. A further look at more of the former tenants will be coming in a future update. As of December 2025 tenants include Edward Jones Investments at 4403 (this used to be Upscale Resale, moved here in spring 2001 from their old location East 29th Street. Their signage used Comic Sans MS. Tax records were incorrectly filed as "Unscale Resale"), Foot Massage (4405), Truman Chocolates (4407), Classy Nails (4409), Smoke Stop (4411, former home of similar business Vapor Maven), Kingdom Barber Studio (4413, former home of Absolute Nutrition & Energy), Jazzy's Hair Studio (4413b), a vacancy at 4415 (former Allstate Insurance office), and Yesterday's Bar & Grill (at 4421, the address was originally 4423 when it opened in 1979, probably expanding into an adjacent space).

4600 South Texas Avenue
Abandoned building. It was "Aggieland Realty" as of 1998 but no other activity has been here for years.

Home2 Suites by Hilton / 300 Texas Avenue South
Home2 Suites by Hilton College Station opened late 2014. For many years, this used to be some run-down apartment 4-plexes (on the Meadowland side of the property), and an abandoned concrete pad that turned out to be a self-serve car wash demolished some years before. The parking lot connects to both Meadowland and the (former) Applebee's.

Sonic Drive-In / 401 Texas Avenue South
This Sonic opened a few years after the Sonic near University and Texas closed, opening in either late 2005 or early 2006.

UNIVERSITY DRIVE / UNIVERSITY DRIVE EAST to GEORGE BUSH DRIVE / GEORGE BUSH DRIVE EAST

Texas 707 / 707 Texas Avenue South
I've decided to cover both of these in one entry: 707 Texas is a retail/office complex built in the 1970s, though these days are mostly service-oriented tenants. As of 2022 the signage for the center has ITS Cruises & Travel, The Lash Resort, Visiting Angels, Tutor John, Padlock Escape Games, Rokrbox, and LJA Engineering. I have some photos of some of the interior buildings here (but those will appear in a future update).

Around 1997, three buildings of the complex were knocked down (including one that held exclusively the women's boutique Charli) for an On the Border restaurant at 709 Texas Avenue South, which has since closed.

Thrifted Threads / 815 Texas Avenue South
From what I can find, W.N. "Flop" Colson opened a "Humble" gas station here in 1939.In the early 1940s, it was sold to L.E. McCall and transitioned to Enco by the early 1960s. By that time, an addition had been built for full auto service. Later on, the original Humble structure was torn down and replaced with something in-line with the 1950s addition. There was a business operating called Mac's Auto Sales out of the address from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s but it was never closed as a gas station, as it operated as Rudy's Exxon from around the late 1970s to 1990, before reopening as K&L Exxon in 1991, which in turn became a Texaco in 1994 when it changed hands to Andy's Food Mart #2, though it was MC Food Mart in its last two years of life). When all the local Texaco stations switched to Shell in 2003, some signage got changed out (particularly near the convenience store part), but it never was completed and sat abandoned for over a decade afterward. 1Up Repairs (repair for consumer electronics, like phones and computers) opened in 2017 (finally getting rid of the defunct Texaco/Shell changeover) but closed down a few years later. In late 2023 it opened as its current tenant, a location of Thrifted Threads. Unlike Lupe Tortilla, it is not connected to other parking.

Rock n' Roll It / 817 Texas Avenue South
This vape shop opened in the mid-2020s but it's an old building. It opened in 1940 as Black's Pharmacy and was sold to Jones Pharmacy (which moved from downtown Bryan around the same time) in 1958 and continued to operate until around the early 1980s. In 1985-1986 it was Ben Bailey's (local liquor store, had a few other locations), then Scooter Brown's (1987-1989, a motorcycle dealership), then M&M Scuba (briefly around 1991 before the business dissolved), then Room Mates Furniture in 1992, a contemporary furniture store opened. Perhaps trying to get away from its junky-sounding name, it became Innovations Furniture within a few years. There's some conflicting information but it looks like it was taken over by BCS Bicycles very briefly before becoming the new home of Aggieland Cycling in 1999. After Aggieland Cycling relocated to 1705 Valley View in the mid-2010s, it became a men's clothing shop (The Squire Shop) briefly around the late 2010s before closing before the end of 2020.

T-Mobile / 819 Texas Avenue South
The oldest record I have on file is "Jim's Hair Styling" from a 1969 directory, but in 1971 this was Dorothy McCoy, a realtor office and by January 19755 had become the College Station location of Richard Smith Company (locally based) until around 1988 when it relocated to 411 Texas Avenue South with Cherry Ruffino leading the office. In May 1988 Computer Access opened a second store (its Northgate location was at 403B University Drive in the Sparks Building) before closing its location for this one. In 1991 it became BCS Bicycles as Computer Access moved to 809 Texas Avenue South, and dropped off afterward. (Presumably vacant during most of the 1990s). In 2000 to around 2004 it was briefly the home of Soulworks Art Gallery before becoming T-Mobile within a few years.

Strategic Realty Advisors LLC / 903 Texas Avenue South
This former Century 21 office moved out in the late 2010s. SRA was formerly at 3007 Earl Rudder Fwy. until around 2022, when it moved here.

Raising Cane's / 1045 Texas Avenue South
This Raising Cane's opened in June 2006 in a new building. The original building from the mid-1970s was built as a branch of Sambo's and later served as a location of Wings-N-More for many years.

1055 Texas Avenue South
This building has been here since the 1960s. The main tenant is Burdett & Son Outdoor Adventure Shop, which moved from Redmond Terrace in the early 2000s. There's also a vacancy (last home to an Allstate office), Brazos Valley Computers, and a loft space accessible from the back. * add Burdett & Sons, the stuff next to it, city hall, old FD-->

College Station City Hall / 1101 Texas Avenue South
The current College Station City Hall was dedicated in 2021 to replace a building (just in front of it) built in 1970.

Visit College Station / 1207 Texas Avenue S.
College Station visitor's center made from a long-defunct (and under-utilized) fire department. It opened shortly after the new city hall was built.

GEORGE BUSH DRIVE / GEORGE BUSH DRIVE EAST to HARVEY ROAD

Exxon / 1721 Texas Avenue South
The only business along this stretch not otherwise covered by Brazos Buildings & Businesses, this Exxon was rebuilt in 2000 and featured a Speedy Stop convenience store. In 2013, the Speedy Stop was sold with 142 others to 7-Eleven, which soon rebranded it to TETCO. By fall 2014, it was a 7-Eleven in all but name. After carrying the TETCO name for years, it was rebranded as 7-Eleven officially sometime by late 2021 or early 2022.

HARVEY ROAD to HOLLEMAN DRIVE EAST

Washington Chapel Baptist Church / 1801 Texas Avenue South
This church has been here for a very long time, dating back to at least 1957 for the building alone; unfortunately, there's not a lot of information on it I can easily find.

Stanton Optical / 1937 Texas Avenue S.
Until around 2016 this was a crummy little strip mall building that had a revolving selection of tenants, with the roof painted brown, maroon, and green before that. (You can see a bit of the 2002 form at StarbucksEverywhere, with the pre-2000s Texas Avenue. The construction of Stanton Optical spared Total Optical at the 1931 space, though between 2018 and 2021 was replaced with "Mr. Smoke & Vape" which closed by 2025. I remember there was some sort of crossfit gym here in the 2000s or early 2010s at some point, and in the 1990s it was the home of Petal Patch florists. You can see some of the changes over on Street View.

HOLLEMAN DRIVE / HOLLEMAN DRIVE EAST to SOUTHWEST PARKWAY

E-Z Travel Inn / 2007 Texas Avenue South
This motel has been here since 1973 (originally under the name "E-Z Travel Motor Hotel"). It is fairly simple and has a swimming pool but not much else in the ways of amenities. It has seen better days, to put it nicely.

Texas Avenue Dental / 2101 Texas Avenue South
Texas Avenue Dental has been here in some form since the mid-1980s, but it's not accessible (or really visible) from Texas Avenue. Access is from Richards Street.

United Rentals / 2301 Texas Avenue South
Located at the northeast corner of Manuel & Texas Avenue (directly across from Outback Steakhouse), this was formerly known as RSC Equipment Rental (rebranded around 2013 after United bought the parent company), this United Rentals location has been here for years. Behind it on Manuel Drive is CubeSmart Self Storage (219 Manuel Drive), which has additional units on the other side of Manuel Drive.

First Financial Bank / 2305 Texas Avenue South
This bank opened around 2009 as The Bank & Trust and was acquired by First Financial in 2019. The building here before served as College Station Pawn from the demolition of 2316 Texas Avenue South in the early 2000s to 2008 when it moved back to right next to its old site, but I cannot remember what was here before that.

Comfort Suites / 2313 Texas Ave. S.
I believe my notes indicate that Comfort Suites was built in 2004, though I'd have to go back and confirm it later.

Discount Tire / 2321 Texas Avenue South
Discount Tire has been here since 1986. It did not replace Luther's Bar-B-Q, which previously used the 2321 space, for whatever Discount Tire took the 2321 address while the former Luther's (now Big O Tires) was re-addressed as 2319.

Dairy Queen / 2323 Texas Ave. South
The original 1975 Dairy Queen received some updates over the years (including DQ signage) but around 2014, it was gutted to a shell and rebuilt. It is the only Dairy Queen restaurant in College Station proper.

Motel 6 / 2327 Texas Avenue South
Motel 6 (#362) has been here since 1980 and other than some interior updates and new signage hasn't seen many changes over the years.

Compass Bank Building / 2405 Texas Avenue South
Three story office building built in 1984. Originally, it had Compass Bank on the outside until the late 2000s (BBVA Compass), then just BBVA, and in October 2021 became PNC Bank.

CVS/pharmacy / 2411 Texas Avenue South
This drugstore was built in 2000 (replacing a small two-tenant building that included a Care Plus) as an Eckerd (replacing the store at Culpepper Plaza) and converted to CVS around 2005.

SOUTHWEST PARKWAY to HARVEY MITCHELL PARKWAY

Homestead Place / 2551-2553 Texas Avenue South
Small strip center with three buildings. The first of which, 2551, had the city's public library until 1998 (yes, it was in a strip mall). The second of which, 2553, has had Brown's Shoe Fit Co. since the early 2000s. A third building (also with 2551 addresses) is invisible from the street and has a dance studio as well as Kindermusik.

College Station Baptist Church / 2555 Texas Avenue South
This church (around since likely the 1970s) connects to the Homestead Place parking lot. The church website is a bit broken and nothing appears under the "About Us" page.

2561 Texas Avenue South
This converted home and its parking lot were demolished in the mid-2010s after being abandoned for many years. In the mid-1970s this was Jim Broone Inc., homebuilder, and later operated as a business called Saddles and Spurs.

2611 Texas Avenue South
This building was the city police station for years (and at some point until the early 2000s also served as the courthouse).

In May 2020, the city leased the space to International Leadership of Texas for use as temporary school space (holding high schoolers) until the Longmire school is expanded. The current building was built in 1978 with a two-level addition completed about a decade later. In front of the former police station is Cy Miller Park, officially at 2615 Texas Avenue.

The Creek Place / 2709-2711 Texas Avenue S.
Built 2025 (with 2709 being the rear building) this has Dougherty Dental Group in 2709 and 2711 with Aggieland Orthodontics and Lapels Laundromat. As of this writing (May 2026), a third tenant will open in 2711, Haraz Coffee House.

Midas Auto Systems Experts / 2715 Texas Avenue South
Brazos CAD indicates this car repair shop was built in 1997. Around 2025 the aging vinyl sign was blown out by a storm.

HARVEY MITCHELL PARKWAY SOUTH to BROTHERS BOULEVARD / DARTMOUTH STREET

U-Haul Moving & Storage / 2813 Texas Avenue South
This U-Haul facility has been here since 1997. It was the first climate-controlled, multi-story storage unit in the College Station area. As of 2022, a second building is being constructed behind it (closer to FM 2818) with additional construction ongoing as of 2025.

Wyndham Garden / 2829 Texas Avenue South
College Station's newest hotel opened in late December 2020 behind O'Reilly Auto Parts.

Sonic Drive-In / 2900 Texas Avenue South
Accessible from the Walmart parking lot, the Sonic here was built in 1990 (originally) and closed in September 2018 for a total rebuild, which opened in 2019.

Memorial Funeral Chapel / 2901 Texas Avenue South
Memorial Funeral Chapel has done business in College Station for decades but this opened as Southwood Funeral Home in 1997. By the early 2000s both were under common ownership.

BROTHERS BOULEVARD / DARTMOUTH STREET to DEACON DRIVE

3002 Texas Avenue South
This three-suite office building has Edward Jones Investments, Swearingen Law Firm, and Kluck, Lamb, & Rovinelli, LLP, an accounting firm. Behind it is an alleyway that leads to a few duplexes and the back of the vacant lot next to it, Sunset Gardens (3020 Texas Avenue South).

Brazos Spine / 3106 Texas Avenue South
Opened 2021 (though main exterior signage wasn't installed until in 2022) and moved from 3526 Longmire. This building formerly held a Domino's Pizza carryout location (3104 Texas Avenue South) from the late 1990s until it moved in April 2017 (now at Valley View and Texas Avenue) and MAC Pizza Management (at 3106 Texas Avenue South), the territorial franchise of the area stores. MAC Pizza Management moved out around the same time to a new dedicated building on Highway 30.

The diamond-shaped signage that Brazos Spine uses is leftover from Domino's, and 3104's address is now taken by First Command (financial planning).

SmartStop Self Storage / 3101 Texas Ave. S.
This self-storage center has been here since the mid-1980s, though not always under this name.

Wings 'N More / 3230 South Texas Avenue
This chicken wing restaurant (owned by Mark Dennard, not a franchised location, therefore, the "alternate" name is Mark Dennard's Original Wings 'N More) opened in the mid-1990s out of a converted office building. Their separate party room is at 1803 Deacon Drive. Around 2012, a covered patio was turned into a restaurant expansion.

DEACON DRIVE to ROCK PRAIRIE ROAD

Texas Avenue Baptist Church / 3400 Highway 6 South
This doesn't connect to Texas Avenue per se, and even when it was built in 1991, had no direct connection to Texas Avenue. Even though the frontage road has been one way since around 2006, the parking lot is shared with a series of apartment buildings that has access to Deacon and Longmire.

D&D Movers / 3700 Texas Avenue
Until around 1997 this was a Max Food Mart with Texaco, and briefly co-existedwith the store at Deacon.

Highway 6 continues south toward the Grimes County line. The coverage continues at this link.

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