Formerly focusing on "South Houston Roads", as of Version 3.0 this focuses exclusively on Bay Area Boulevard and West Bay Area Boulevard (but only to Clear Creek, League City's is different). It also doesn't cover (yet) Pasadena's section of the road, as the numbering jumps up after Armand Bayou (though there is a park with Houston's address, but Pasadena's numbering) and is primarily industrial facilties.
Version 3.0 of the page (because of the new focus on Bay Area Boulevard) is different enough that only five entries stick around (Taco Cabana, Black Rock Coffee Bar, HTeaO, the now-defunct Ghengis Grill, and Schlotzsky's), and all of them either had incorrectly written addresses or needed updates. The previous version of this page featured stuff like Gulf Freeway (exported a while ago) and a few other entries. Some of those have been removed from this site for now, but the restaurants near AMC Gulf Pointe 30 have their own page now.
The Galloway School / 3200 W. Bay Area Boulevard
Per the website for the school's website, this STEM-focused Christian private school opened its current campus here in 2005 for preschool to 5th grade.
Target / 1801 W. Bay Area Boulevard
This originally opened as a SuperTarget in October 2003 (T-1837). In 2018 it became a regular Target (at least branded as such).
1735 West Bay Area Boulevard
This strip center has three suite spaces but two of them are used as a larger suite space. Around 2016 the larger space, C (no B) first opened as Mattress One. It closed in 2019, replaced by Texas Mattress Makers by spring 2021; between May 2024 and April 2025 it was replaced by Ideal Dental. The other tenant was and is Starbucks, which opened in January 2016.
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers / 1640 W. Bay Area Blvd.
This Raising Cane's opened December 4, 2018.
1445 W. Bay Area Blvd.
This Wolfe Nursery opened in February 1987 behind 1425 W. Bay Area Boulevard (Target at the time) and closed in 1998. In 2004 or 2005 the site was demolished and with the retention pond's expansion you can hardly tell anything used to be here.
1340 W. Bay Area Blvd.
This is just a parking lot but from 2003 to 2012 was a Subway. (It was only accessed through the ring road of Baybrook Mall). It wasn't built as a Subway though...
Crazy Alan's Swamp Shack / 1330 West Bay Area Boulevard
This opened around early 2019. It was Bennigan's from 1980 to 2008, Cafe Adobe from 2009 to 2015, and Los Cucos from 2016 to 2018.
The Burger Joint / 1324 W. Bay Area Blvd.
Burger King #6658 operated from 1990 to 2020. Within a few years it reopened as "The Burger Joint".
Olive Garden / 1310 W. Bay Area Blvd.
Olive Garden opened here in 2008 and relocated from 18976 Gulf Freeway. It replaced a Shell gas station and 1320 W. Bay Area Boulevard, which served as a variety of restaurants including On the Border. (More information in a future post).
Red Lobster / 888 W. Bay Area Blvd.
Red Lobster has been here since 1982, though the original building was heavily damaged in a 2000 fire. It was rebuilt and reopened in July 2001 (though the current prototype, not the one GMRI was building in the early 1980s).
Taco Cabana / 705 W. Bay Area Blvd.
This opened in 1987 as Two Pesos. In 1993, the chain was purchased by Taco Cabana and the restaurant was converted to it.
Black Rock Coffee Bar / 702 W. Bay Area Blvd.
This was built as a short-lived Pollo Campero and opened in 2011 but closed sometime between 2013 and 2014. In 2015 it reopened as Barbazzar, a coffee stand. Barbazzar closed sometime in late 2019, and became its current tenant in 2021. It replaced a bank that closed in 2007 (opened as Columbia Savings around the mid-1980s).
Bojangles / 510 W. Bay Area Blvd.
This originally opened as the second Houston location of the first-gen Krispy Kreme stores in 1999, before the contract ended in 2006 and it was rebranded as "Jumble's Doughnut Factory" for a matter of months before it went under. Ghengis Grill would open here in 2009 before it closed in 2022 and replaced by Bojangles, which opened February 2025.
HTeaO / 481 W. Bay Area Blvd.
This was first mentioned to have signed Outback Steakhouse for a "6,000 square feet building" in November 1990, so it opened in 1991. In 2016, Outback Steakhouse relocated to 1503 Bay Area Boulevard and the building was torn down for a new El Pollo Loco (#6156). This opened in February 2017 but closed around January 2018 (clearly "Latin American-style grilled chicken" was not popular in this corridor based on the failure of Pollo Campero as well) and reopened as HTeaO in February 2020.
Holiday Inn / 302 W. Bay Area Blvd.
Holiday Inn - Webster opened in 2009. I stayed here in March 2012. It had a restaurant though I can't remember the name of it ("Galaxy Grill" is the current 2026 name of it, I doubt they changed it).
Capri Poker Room / 155 West Bay Area Boulevard
Former Ryan's. Opened in 1989, closed around the late 2000's-early 2010's. Last operated as Hibachi Grill & Buffet (closed in 2019). Reopened as Capri Poker Room in 2022.
Wells Fargo / 1005 Bay Area Boulevard
This was a former Grandy's, which was torn down around 2003 for a new Eckerd (later CVS), which closed by 2006 and was torn down for Wells Fargo by 2008.
Schlotzsky's / 1521 Bay Area Blvd.
This chain sandwich shop opened in 2016.
Dunkin' / 1525 Bay Area Blvd.
Dunkin' Donuts originally opened in fall 2015.