Reviving and spinning off from the old West Houston page, this covers "Highway 6 North", the designation of US-290 continuing west of Hempstead Road. It is inspired off of the old West Houston Archives page (now on Facebook as Vintage West Houston, though many of the website's old images are still missing), and continues south from US-290 to where the numbering stops/starts. There are probably only a few enough of the section of FM 1960 West (and by extension Highway 6) for stand-alone Numbered Exits entries. With that said, this is still written with West Houston Archives in mind, with the addresses in reverse order.
Additions: Lone Star Bank, Willie's Grill & Icehouse, Skechers Outlet, Houston Garden Centers, TitleMax Title Loans, Scooter's Coffee, InTown Suites (at Addicks Satsuma), Ollie's Bargain Outlet, H-E-B, Spec's (Spec's Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods), Walmart Neighborhood Market, Burger King, Starbucks, Family Thrift Center, The River of Life Church, Frank's Grill, 7-Eleven, and Best Western Plus.
Updates: InTown Suites (retitled from "Extended Stay InTown Suites" at Copper Grove), 8422 Highway 6 North (previously titled as "Dog Haus Biergarten"), 7250 Hwy. 6 North (previously titled as "Fuddruckers"), 7086 Highway 6 North (previously titled as "Black Rifle Coffee Company"), Pollo Campero (previously titled as "JCI Grill"), Shipley Do-Nuts, Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, Quick-Wok Chinese Express (previously titled as "5854 Highway 6 North"), JJ Fish & Chicken (previously titled as "Louisiana Famous Fried Chicken & Seafood"), Little Caesars, Texaco, 4330 Highway 6 North (once and future Fiesta), and Mercedes-Benz of West Houston (previously titled as "Sewell Mercedes-Benz of West Houston").
Removals: McDonald's (now on Numbered Exits) and Bear Creek Inn (now on Numbered Exits)
InTown Suites / 9155 Highway 6 South
The Houston Highway 6 InTown Suites was opened in 1998. I had asked John Williams of Vintage West Houston for a picture of this motel, as the March 2009 picture showed the hotel InTown Suites in a slightly different light (hilly and grassy) that makes it seem more like a motel in a New England seaboard town or perhaps Galveston. It was a neat picture but I think something got mislabeled because I ended up getting a picture of Highway 6's OTHER InTown Suites instead (see 5055), which was similar, but not the picture I wanted.
Charleys Cheesesteaks / 8491 Highway 6 North
This former Carl's Jr. opened in January 2011 as the first Carl's Jr. restaurant in Houston (at least, not in decades), and initially set record-breaking sales when it opened. Ultimately its success was fleeting and closed sometime in late 2019. Charleys Cheesesteaks (of mall food court fame) replaced it by fall 2022.
8422 Highway 6 North
This restaurant first operated as a Fazoli's from 2000 to somewhere around 2009-2010 and operated as El Rey from 2011 to around 2019. Dog Haus Biergarten opened in November 2020 and closed by summer 2023.
Lone Star Bank / 7630 Highway 6 North
This opened in 2000 as Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and closed in 2005. The building was later modified to be a bank around 2008. For more on Krispy Kreme's first run in Houston, please see Houston Historic Retail's page.
Dunkin' / 7510 Highway 6 N.
This opened in 1998 as a co-branded Dunkin' Donuts/Baskin-Robbins (on equal terms, the companies have been under common ownership since 1990). It still has a Baskin-Robbins, as newer developments have tended be "Dunkin' (Donuts) with a Baskin-Robbins inside".
7250 Hwy. 6 North
The Copperfield Fuddruckers operated from 1996 until summer 2024 when it was "temporarily" closed. In the previous update, when West Houston Archives still operated as a website, I was able to show that between 2008 and 2009 the restaurant was repainted burgundy from red, white, and blue, which can be (barely) be seen on the oldest Google Street View image.
Willie's Grill & Icehouse / 7092 Highway 6 North
This was Applebee's from 1989 to 1996 and Willie's since around 1997.
7086 Highway 6 North
This was developed as Boston Market in the mid-1990s, but it closed in 2019. Black Rifle Coffee Company opened its first Houston-area location here in March 2022, but it closed in 2025.
Pollo Campero / 6614 Highway 6 North
This opened as James Coney Island in 2000 and later rebranded to "JCI Grill" in the 2010s before closing around 2022 or 2023. In 2024 it reopened as Pollo Campero.
Shipley Do-Nuts / 6400 Hwy. 6 North
I first learned about this building through West Houston Archives though the chronology was a bit inaccurate. It did in fact open as Toddle House in 1984 but closed around the mid-1990s and briefly became "Rosie's" in 1999 that added a new awning area (what I'm not sure is what it was, WHA said it was a flower shop). I am inclined to believe it sold plants due to the covering on the side which is common to garden centers, and torn down when it became a restaurant again. By 2003 Rosie's was closed, with "Koffee & Stuf'd Biscuit Company" operating from 2006 to 2010. Shipley has been here since 2011, however, which moved from a different location.
Thankfully, unlike many of the entries here, the photos have been reposted on the Vintage West Houston Facebook page. These are John Williams' original photos.
The first photo is what it looked like in 2005 post-Rosie's. (local archive).
The second photo is what it looked like in 2006, with the Rosie's awnings removed. (local archive).
The third photo is the building as Koffee & Stuf'd Biscuit Company, though the "Stuf'd" part is easy to miss. (local archive).
The fourth and final picture is the building as Shipley Do-Nuts taken in 2018. (local archive).
Skechers Outlet / 6107 Highway 6 North
A former Walgreens now operating as a large Skechers store. This is covered on Houston Historic Retail.
Houston Garden Centers / 6072 Hwy. 6 N.
According to the old West Houston Archives page, where Houston Garden Centers (built around 1998) is now, there was an apartment complex. "I can't recall the exact name, but it was built in the late 1970's or very early 1980's, and only consisted of a few buildings. The apartments suffered at least two major fires that I remember just from growing up in the area, and in the mid 1990's, they were torn down. This garden center was established shortly after, and has remained Houston Garden Centers since the mid to late 1990's. If you visit this store, you can still see plenty of evidence of the old apartments. There are entrance driveways and curbs marking the parking areas, and remnants of old power boxes and meters staked into the ground." I personally spent WAY TOO LONG searching for it, but I finally came up with 6098 Highway 6 North and Langham Creek Colony with 58 units.
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers / 6015 Highway 6 North
Raising Cane's #99 opened in early 2012 (the website used to have opening dates but they no longer do). West Houston Archives took pictures in (presumably) early January and it is quite impressive considering the state of the building was in.
Quick-Wok Chinese Express / 5854 Highway 6 North
From what I can piece together, this was originally built as a Dairy Queen in 1992, replacing (and briefly using the address of) 5850 Highway 6 North (the building next door was another building in the post-1990 redevelopment). Dairy Queen later became "Dairy Country" before closing around 1997, reopening as a co-branded Church's Chicken/Wienerschnitzel in 1999, though by the mid-2000s this was dropped. Church's Chicken closed in the early 2010s. Around 2018 it became Captain D's with a significant renovation, which was gone by late 2022 (but possibly months earlier). As of May 2026 it appears to be recently opened as Quick-Wok Chinese Express. John Williams' Vintage West Houston has reposted the 2005 photo of Church's Chicken (which had dropped the Wienerschnitzel co-brand already) here (local archive). There was a second photo from 2018 that was posted from the same perspective with Captain D's. (local archive).
TitleMax Title Loans / 5521 Hwy. 6 N.
This TitleMax has been here since 2020. It opened in 2016 as a Dunkin' Donuts (with Baskin-Robbins) but closed in less than two years.
Scooter's Coffee / 5450 Highway 6 North
Scooter's popped up here around 2022-2023 in a previously undeveloped space but I can't nail down exactly when the drive-through coffee shop opened.
JJ Fish & Chicken / 5436 Highway 6 North
As of May 2026, this is now JJ Fish & Chicken. It originally was a Whataburger that operated from the late 1980s to around 2016-2017, with Louisiana Famous Fried Chicken & Seafood opening in 2018. I'm not sure when that restaurant closed, as it was open late 2024 (so it might've closed in 2025). West Houston Archives has reposted the picture of what it looked like as a Whataburger in 2010 here, with the local archive posted here.
InTown Suites / 5055 Highway 6 North
A nearly-identical (but not quite) twin to the InTown Suites at 9155 and built at around the same time, InTown Suites Extended Stay Houston TX - West is the one I have a photo from Vintage West Houston for. It also appears to be dated to 2009. (photo link).
Little Caesars / 4998 Highway 6 North
Long John Silver's opened c. 1980 and closed sometime around 2005. El Pupusodromo (#4) operated from 2007 to 2008. Little Caesars has been here since around August 2009. John Williams' Vintage West Houston has pictures of all three of its forms, starting with Long John Silver's in 2005 (local archive), then the recently-closed El Pupusodromo in April 2009 (local archive), and finally Little Caesars as it appeared in April 2018 (local archive).
Ollie's Bargain Outlet / 4930 Highway 6 North
This strip-mall anchor started out Eagle Discount Center from 1980 to 1985, then became the Houston operation of Kingsaver (a similar operation called "King Saver" was in Austin, with a space, but the ownership was different, despite identical uses of the fonts and king character). After operating as an H-E-B Pantry from 1992 to 2001 (see 4955, below) in 2003, it opened as a 99 Cents Only Stores. This continued to operate until the chain closed in 2024, then it became an Ollie's Bargain Outlet within months.
H-E-B / 4955 Highway 6 North
H-E-B opened to replace their old Pantry location at 4930 Highway 6 North in November 2001 and been here since.
Texaco / 4974 Highway 6 North
This was built as a Stop N Go back in 1986 with the gas brand becoming Diamond Shamrock in the mid-1990s after Diamond Shamrock purchased National Convenience Stores. By 2009 it was Valero with Corner Store (there used to be a picture on West Houston Archives taken in March of that year), but after 2014 it dropped the Corner Store name, and around 2019-2020, converted to a Texaco. According to tax records, the legal name of the convenience store is "Shree Food Mart".
Spec's Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods / 4820 Hwy. 6 North
Former Eckerd (never converted to CVS). See Houston Historic Retail: "SpEckerd either way you've gotta show ID to buy stuff!".
Walmart Neighborhood Market / 4810 Hwy. 6 North
Walmart Neighborhood Market #3452 opened September 2001 and originally a tasteful tan building with green lettering (as "Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market").
Burger King / 4755 Highway 6 North
The pictures on West Houston Archives are gone, but I believe this Burger King (from the mid-1980s) was in fact closed for a few years before it was torn down and opened as a new Burger King in 2006. Tax records support this.
Starbucks / 4730 Highway 6 North
Starbucks Coffee built a stand-alone shop here on parking lot space in 2007. See StarbucksEverywhere.
Family Thrift Center / 4705 Highway 6 North
Former Safeway/AppleTree, unfortunately it has since gotten a facade remodel. See Houston Historic Retail: "Safeway, Walgreens, and Kmart One of West Houston's best preserved shopping centers".
The River of Life Church / 4518 Highway 6 North
As it's set back a ways from the road, this is also addressed as 16100 (North) Aspenglenn and from the early 1980s to September 2009 was a Luby's Cafeteria (the "Cafeteria" was dropped by the 2000s). It currently operates as The River of Life Church. Vintage West Houston has two pictures here, the first of the building as a Luby's in 2009 (local archive) and one as the church in 2018 (local archive).
4330 Highway 6 North
Acting as an anchor to the shopping center at the northeast corner of Highway 6 North and Clay Road, this was Gerland's Food Fair from 1978 to 2001 before reopening as Fiesta Mart #56 in 2001. However, the whole shopping center flooded out with Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and Fiesta did not reopen. Almost a decade later, plans were filed for Fiesta to open a new store in the spot, with Fiesta Mart #86 coming this summer. On Vintage West Houston, there's a photo of the boarded up store in 2018. (local archive).
Frank's Grill / 4236 Highway 6 North
Frank's Grill has been here since 2007, and in a former KFC that operated from 1985 to around 2003, with Asian Express here in the interim.
7-Eleven / 4011 Highway 6 North
This opened as Racetrac in the mid-1990s and became RaceWay around 2005. In early 2021 or whereabouts it became a 7-Eleven (both gas and store). After this, there's not much to see until the 1000 block, where it doesn't use the Highway 6 North name (but is compatible with the numbering system).
Mercedes-Benz of West Houston / 1025 Highway 6
The Sam's Club here relocated to 13331 Westheimer Road in September 2013 (though that particular store closed in January 2018). In 2016, a Mercedes-Benz dealership opened at the site. The building was substantially modified (including a large new addition in front of it, and a removal of some loading docks).
Waffle House / 1015 Hwy. 6
Waffle House opened in 1996 as an outlot of the Sam's Club parking lot. The late-2000s construction of the Highway 6 overpass over Katy Freeway made access to it and Sam's Club difficult, and the conversion of the Sam's Club into a car dealership practically cut the Waffle House out except for a narrow driveway near the front.
It's understandable why Waffle House didn't have access to the freeway frontage directly when it was built (still a railroad) but no excuse when the freeway was expanded.
Best Western Plus / 1000 Highway 6
Best Western Plus Houston Energy Corridor was formerly a Drury Hotel & Suites, and changed hands between 2019 and 2021 with a mild exterior renovation. At this point, the numbering resets for Highway 6 South.
