Mueller Inc. / 7050 N. General Bruce Drive
The Temple branch of this metal roofing company is a modern building, completed in 2012. The old Mueller building, destroyed in the widening, is just south of here.
QuikTrip / 6330 N. General Bruce Drive
This was built in the mid-2020s on the site of Lucky's Truck Stop (6278 N. General Bruce). The store, an Exxon brand, was torn down in widening but some old, debranded canopies still remain. Further research indicates prior to the mid-2000s, the truck stop was called "Willies 305 Truck Stop" and/or "W Wheels".
Holt Truck Centers Temple / 6043 N. General Bruce Drive
This was built in 1989 and was later branded as Kyrish Truck Center of Temple (never put their name on the outside); as of early 2025 a banner hangs up for Holt Truck Center (which bought Kyrish), covering the old name, Longhorn Truck Center (which never changed under Kyrish's ownership).
Atwoods / 5501 North General Bruce Drive
This home and ranch store opened in 2024 as new construction.
Baylor Scott & White Logistics Distribution Center / 5141 N. General Bruce Drive
This was built around 2016, shortly after the merger with Baylor Health Care.
Burger King / 4405 N. General Bruce Drive
This Burger King opened in early 2019. It's part of a new development at the northeast section of NE HK Dodgen and I-35.
Taco Bell / 4331 N. General Bruce Dr.
This Taco Bell opened in very late 2019 or early 2020.
Starbucks / 4307 N. General Bruce Dr.
According to StarbucksEverywhere, this location opened in March 2019.
4306 N. General Bruce Drive
This used to be a Diamond Shamrock. It was converted to Valero later on (still with Corner Store) but it was torn down in 2012. I'm not sure when it was built but it was there in the mid-1990s.
Buc-ee's / 4155 N. General Bruce Drive
Opening April 1, 2015, the Buc-ee's in Temple is...well, it's a Buc-ee's. It has to be seen to believed. We're talking about a convenience store the size of a grocery store here (but with more space devoted to restrooms).
Tractor Supply Co. / 3530 N. General Bruce Drive
Temple's second Tractor Supply Company store opened in January 2025.
Texas Inn / 3309 N. General Bruce Dr.
This small motel had to have a special driveway built for it after the construction which completely reconfigured the intersection. Originally, North 3rd Street merged straight into the freeway's frontage road going north with a ramp flyover going directly to it southbound, and shared some ramps with Industrial Boulevard, which crossed over the freeway.
Afterward, North 3rd simply curled and crossed over the freeway into Industrial Boulevard, with the older Industrial Boulevard segment on the east side being cut off. (This is a little confusing, so see the intersection BEFORE and AFTER).
3300 N. General Bruce Drive
See the entry for Texas Inn. You can see that Continental Inn (between Industrial Blvd.'s original ROW and Pegasus Drive) wasn't so lucky.
Carpenter / 2611 N. General Bruce Drive
As the overpass implies, this part of I-35 is mostly industrial. The Carpenter plant opened in 1966 per their website and does foam pouring for furniture, automobile seats, and other uses.
Maco Manufacturing / 2204 N. General Bruce Drive
Maco's website explains that they moved into their current building in early 2008 but does not mention since then about a third of the building had to be removed for highway construction.
It appears that the highway construction meant that Maco stayed but their parent company Indeco Sales (which had been with them since the early 1970s) relocated.
City of Temple - Parks & Recreation Department / 1701 N. General Bruce Drive
As of 2019 this was the home of "MW Builders" but by 2022 it was city offices. The building was originally built in 2009.
Quality Suites / 1415 N. General Bruce Dr.
This hotel was originally Comfort Suites, then Baymont, then Quality Suites. It appears to have been built in the mid-2000s with the original hotel assumed to be Comfort Suites but not confirmed.
Exxon / 1307 N. General Bruce Drive
This Exxon has a convenience store with a taco counter inside.
Chevron / 1300 N. General Bruce Drive
The former home to Hidden Valley Moving and Storage (also known as Mayflower Storage, as it had a big MAYFLOWER logo painted on the side). Briefly before it was mostly torn down for the widening in the early 2010s, it was the home of Blue Dolphin Diving Center. About 60% of the building was torn down, but in 2020, renovations began on the building, transforming it into the Texstar Travel Center convenience store with a Chevron gas station. Just north of here was the Stratford House Inn, has another location elsewhere in Temple now, but this location at 1602 N. General Bruce was a sacrifice to I-35. The motel had been there under that name since 1988.
Days Inn / 1104 North General Bruce Drive
Days Inn Temple has been here at least since the 1990s (gotta love their distinctive signage) but the freeway widening meant they had to compromise. The lobby building and pool area were lost in the widening, so a lobby had to be carved out of some motel rooms (looks to be about 6, three in the front and likely another three in the back) and a new pool hastily added behind the parking lot. Before the freeway widening and room-to-lobby conversion took place, the motel featured 58 units.
American Inn / 1100 N. General Bruce Drive
The I-35 widening bit off the front part of this motel, requiring a new lobby to be carved out of rooms. It looks strange because the first floor of the hotel is about half a story down from the highway around it. During the planning process of widening the freeway (late 2000s?) this was a Motel 6 and remained as such as late as November 2016 before becoming a Knights Inn sometime in 2017. The American Inn name came in between 2019 and 2022.
1010 N. General Bruce Drive
This was a Kettle (#59) from 1989 to 1996, and then Denny's from 1996 to around 2013 when it was closed and torn down. Temple went without a Denny's for years until 2020.
Econo Lodge / 1001 North General Bruce Drive
This Econo Lodge has been operating under this name since at least the mid-2000s but further information is currently elusive. Perhaps in a future update more will be revealed. (The address here looks like it should be further north, but it isn't, it's actually more south from the Motel 6).
Rodeway Inn / 915 North General Bruce Drive
As of 2007 this was a Red Roof Inn. It became Americas Best Value Inn Temple Killeen by 2013 and remained as such until recently. As of May 2026, Street View shows new Rodeway Inn signs from April 2026 but Google still says it's America Best Value Inn, indicating the change is very recent.
Motel 6 / 802 N. General Bruce Drive
The occupant in the 2000s was a Travelodge and later spent some time as a Knights Inn (c. 2016, after widening; it jumped next door) and is now a Motel 6/Studio 6. Why Motel 6 and Knights Inn switched places is a complete mystery. The brands do not have common ownership.
Texas Roadhouse / 624 N. General Bruce Drive
As we approach downtown Temple, there are restaurants along this stretch. Texas Roadhouse opened in April 2005. The widening cut off the front part of the parking lot (they built more in the back) but otherwise did not affect the business.
Chick-fil-A / 615 N. General Bruce Drive
Opened December 2025 to replace the store at 114 N. 31st Street. 615 used to be the home of SimpleCar, though the building was next door (this was just the parking lot).
Best Western Inn & Suites / 602 North General Bruce Drive
This Best Western hotel opened around 2000-2001. Highway construction in the early 2010s forced a rebuild of the swimming pool in the back property (as opposed to the front).
Pizza Hut / 603 N. General Bruce Drive
Pizza Hut has been at the corner of Jack White Street and I-35 since 1985, but recent construction relocated Jack White Street to the south of Pizza Hut (where it did not have an entrance) on the site of Johnson Bros. Ford (1702 Jack White).
As of 2021 there were some buildings from Johnson Bros. Ford to the north of and behind Pizza Hut that remained since the 2012 move-out of Johnson Bros. Ford, but by 2022 these were razed. The former Jack White Street now serves as a parking lot access, and unofficially there still is access to the new Jack White Street from Pizza Hut.
411 North General Bruce Drive
This restaurant has been abandoned for a decade. I first mentioned the chronology in my old former restaurants page for Shoney's. It was Shoney's from approximately 1993 to 1999, then converted to Jim's around this time (similar to the Waco Shoney's-turned-Jim's), but in 2005 Jim's closed and was replaced with Pancho's Mexican Buffet (an odd choice considering Pancho's was quite dated by that time). Pancho's closed in 2007 and was replaced with "Asian" (a Chinese buffet) until around 2008. Mad Mongo's opened in 2010 but closed in 2012, and it has been vacant since.
301 N. General Bruce Drive
From what I can tell, Wendy's was here since the late 1970s and closed here in the mid-2010s, with Tapa Tapa's opening around 2021. It was just a Mexican restaurant, not an actual tapas bar. It closed in late 2023. It appears it will be become the new home of Roberto's Taco Shop #4.
Dutch Bros Coffee / 201 North General Bruce Drive
This was a Long John Silver's restaurant from 1975 and closed sometime in late 2020 or early 2021 (it had the 1980s logo upon its demise). By the end of 2021 it was torn down and rebuilt as a Dutch Bros Coffee location as the West Coast chain multiplied across Texas.
HTeaO / 211 N. General Bruce Drive
This was built and opened in the mid-2020s. It replaced a building that had operated as a Mr. Gatti's from 1976 to 2006 and later a Texas Car Title & Payday Loan for most of the following decade, but since 2016 had been vacant.
Western Hills Church of Christ / 210 N. General Bruce Drive
This church appears to have been built in the early 1960s (circa 1964, 1965) and just to south of it is a vacant spot at 1908 W. Adams Avenue, which according to BCAD, the church also owns these days. This was a gas station in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1980 it was redeveloped as a Del Taco (for a few years) and later a Carl's Jr. in the mid-1980s (source). Carl's Jr. was already out by 1990 and around 2007 the vacant building was torn down.
Whataburger / 115 North General Bruce Drive
Records indicate that this Whataburger was originally built and opened in 1993 before it was rebuilt in the mid-2020s. It also may have been a Taco Bueno in the very early 1990s (it has this address). The records state that from 1985 to 1992 it was Taco Bueno, overlapping with Taco Villa's stay in the next spot over, though again, this may be a screwup in records.
Black Rifle Coffee Company / 111 North General Bruce Drive
This opened up as Taco Cabana around 1992 and became Starbucks about a decade later. Starbucks Everywhere shows this Starbucks and the one further north both operating simultaneously (and there are Yelp reviews for this store through 2019), so it's very likely it was a COVID-19 victim and closed in spring 2020. While the design of the building is one of Taco Cabana (built that way, Starbucks even kept part of the highway signage), the article regarding its 2001 opening implies that Taco Cabana was not the first fast food on the site, and Historic Aerials backs this up. It appears it was Taco Villa was back in the 1980s (it converted to Del Taco before closing).
In December 2021 it reopened as a location of Black Rifle Coffee Company.
7-Eleven / 18 S. General Bruce Drive
This was the site of an Albertsons (#4222, originally 4242), closed in December 2004 and opened in 1979 as one of the early Albertsons stores opened in Texas after Albertsons broke up their partnership with Skaggs Drug Companies with the address of 2001 West Adams Avenue. Later on from the late 2000s up until around 2021, this was a church ("Ministry of Hope"). A few years later it was torn down for a 7-Eleven with the current address. It was under construction as of June 2023 but definitely open by November 2024.
Future Cues / 102 S. General Bruce Drive
Future Cues, a pool hall and bar, opened here in 2011 (next to a church!). For years it was Dollar General (1995-2008), and was Ray Mart (1990-1995). Ray Mart is the corporate name of Tri-Supply Home Products (still with a store in the area), but it might have gone under the "Ray Mart Building Center" name when it was open here.
2410 S. General Bruce Drive
Sitting on a piece of land bounded by Wilson Place (what was once a road in front of Best Quality Meats), the westbound frontage road, and 49th Street, this was CEFCO #6, which operated from 1993 to sometime in the early 2010s (last serving as Shell). You have to use older aerials to see how this was formed.
Best Quality Meats & Barbecue / 2418 S. General Bruce Drive
This occupies once was Keg Lounge (which had the address of 2410 Wilson Place, a road eliminated in the widening project). The location opened in early 2014 to replace their old location (see 2610 S. General Bruce Drive). The parking lot to the immediate right of Best Quality was the home of 2408 Wilson Place, Temple Towing Service (building demolished, moved to 3815 Shallow Ford West Road).
2500 S. General Bruce Drive
Located at the northwest corner of South 49th Street and Interstate 35, this had been Cen-Tex Alcoholic Rehab Center for many years by the time it was torn down in the early 2010s. It was still Jean Motel in 1991.
2610 S. General Bruce Drive
This was the home of Best Quality Meats & Sausage from May 2002 to early 2013. It was housed in an old gas station that went defunct no later than 1997.
2616 S. General Bruce Drive
The Barrell Inn, a bar, was here from approximately 1989 to 2012. It was demolished in road construction.
2700 S. General Bruce Drive
The Temple Inn had two structures and sat on the rectangular piece of land where South 53rd Street and West Avenue J met the frontage road. It was demolished in the early 2010s.
Triangle Drive In / 2701 S. General Bruce Drive
Also known as Triangle Food Mart, the logo is a T imposed over a yellow triangle. It converted to this off-brand name between 2019 and 2022 (previously a Shell).
Oasis Motel / 2711 S. General Bruce Drive
This motel was built in 1950 and is possibly the oldest motel in Temple. The main sign was replaced at some point, previously smashed out by high winds, but it remains open.
Los Tres Magueyes / 2801 S. General Bruce Drive
Los Tres Magueyes opened in 2004 in a small walk-up restaurant location (history of which is unknown). An adjacent Texaco station (2815 S. General Bruce Drive) was taken over as Magueyes Tire Shop from around 2014 to 2018, but that went away in 2018 when both the restaurant and the tire shop were torn down for the new full-service restaurant.
2806 S. General Bruce Drive
This tiny building that sat on the corner of West Avenue J and the frontage road is no more. It was the home of "Donald Bull's Locksmith".
2810 S. General Bruce Drive
From 1988 to 2008 this was Carquest Auto Parts and in the last few years (2010-2013) was Kork's Wine & Spirits. It was torn down for highway widening.
2812 S. General Bruce Drive
This was Sports World from at least 1990 to the early 2010s. It is currently located at 120 S. Main Street now, as this building was torn down around the time it moved out. (Right of way).
2814 S. General Bruce Drive
This demolished building was last used by Murray Distributing Company, and demolished in the early 2010s for highway widening.
2822 S. General Bruce Drive
Smith Supply Company (Janitorial & Pool Supplies) was here from around 1979 to the early 2010s. The building was demolished in highway widening.
7-Eleven / 2903 S. General Bruce Drive
Opened 2020 as a self-branded 7-Eleven (with gas), the site was once a building that housed the Little Joe y Familia Museum, dedicated to Tejano singer Little Joe. The museum moved out due to highway construction and does not seem to have a new permanent location yet.
RW Lone Star Security LLC / 2904 S. General Bruce Drive
This shredding service uses the only building of 2904 that wasn't torn down; before 2012 this was Ponder's Auto & Fleet Service (which as of May 2026 is now at 3321 Parkway Drive). A closer inspection on Google Maps Street View (this link hopefully should work) indicates it always occupied the back building.
All of Texas Moving / 2906 S. General Bruce Drive
The modern 2906 S. General Bruce sits on the side of where 2908 S. General Bruce used to sit, where an auto dealer (Cars Etc. based on archived listings) used to be. The lot next to it was where the original 2906 was, which originally housed El Puerto de Jalisco, a Mexican restaurant from 2005 to 2009.
Torres Tire Shop / 2912 S. General Bruce Drive
In April 2026, a tire shop relocated here and set up shop in a temporary building on the lot. Previously, this lot was larger and housed a small building serving as a restaurant with the last known occupant being Train Wreck (2004-2008).
3000 S. General Bruce Drive
This apartment complex is undergoing construction as of May 2026, tentatively known as Bird Creek Senior Living (though could change names later in development).
Mac Haik Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram / 3207 S. General Bruce Drive
This car dealership was rebuilt in 2013 after it had been here since the 1950s. This article is a good historical overview of the dealership.
Firestone Complete Auto Care / 3450 South General Bruce Drive
This Firestone opened in 2013. Due to the fact that it is north/east of Tricolor Auto, it is placed before it on this list.
Lucky Lane Motors / 3301 S. General Bruce Dr.
This small-scale auto dealership is currently Lucky Lane Motors, it became Tricolor Auto around 2018 (before the parent company collapsed in 2025) and was formerly DriveTime since 2006. For the 1990s it was Crown Motor Company before it moved.
There's a few apartments back here toward 57th Street (which we briefly covered here) on Ira Young Drive, including Chappell Hill Apartments (3009 Ira Young Drive), Chappell Creek Village (3010 Ira Young), and The Park at Chappell Hill (2803 Ira Young Drive).
Bird Creek Crossing / 3550 S. General Bruce Drive
Located at the northeast corner of H.K. Dodgen Loop and I-35, this shopping center features a number of restaurants and retail establishments under the same address including Target (T-2278, opened July 2007), The Home Depot, Taco Cabana, BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse, and others. Check out the PDF here (archived from this link.
Big Brand Tire & Service / 3617 S. General Bruce Drive
This was previously Austin-based Tires To You. In 2024, it was acquired and rebranded by February 2025.
Natural Grocers / 3621 S. General Bruce Dr.
Temple-Killeen doesn't have many alternatives to H-E-B as far as grocery shopping goes, but this small grocery store opened in 2011. Natural Grocers and others sit on the redeveloped site of another supermarket—Kroger Family Center #984 (3701 S. General Bruce) was here from 1972 to 1981.
Olive Garden / 3625 S. General Bruce Dr.
After closing several years back on Loop 363, this Olive Garden opened in spring 2008.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store / 3687 S. General Bruce Dr.
This Cracker Barrel restaurant opened in spring 2009.
7-Eleven / 3805 South General Bruce Drive
This 7-Eleven (gas + convenience store, gas self-branded) was built in the old partially removed Kmart parking lot (see above).
3809 S. General Bruce Drive
This was a Kmart (store #3217) that operated from October 1974 to April 2003 at 84,180 square feet. After it closed, the building was mostly torn down and rebuilt as a ~24,000 square feet strip center with most of the former space being new parking lot. It has an AT&T store, a UPS store, a nail salon, and a few other spaces.
Chili's / 3810 S. General Bruce Drive
This chain restaurant has had a place in Temple since 2002. Practically right next to it is an IHOP, which has the address of 3913 Bell Drive (Bell Drive is not really close to IHOP anymore, having been reconfigured with a new overpass). The IHOP still has the 24 hours signage despite not being 24 hours since 2020.
McDonald's, Chili's, and IHOP were all redeveloped from a former industrial site.
McDonald's / 3814 South General Bruce Dr.
This McDonald's restaurant opened in 2002 and has been renovated to current prototypes.
Hampton Inn / 3816 S. General Bruce Drive
Hampton Inn Temple opened over a decade after its contemporaries (opened in 2014) but was still carved out of the same piece of land. It sits behind the Chili's and the McDonald's.
Bell County Motoworks / 3925 S. General Bruce Drive
There used to be Luby's Cafeteria restaurant here, opened in 1994 but closed permanently May 2, 2017. For a few years afterwards before renovations began, the marquee sign indicated that the Bellmead store (40 miles away!) was still open. In February 2020 it reopened as a motorcycle dealership featuring the Indian and Triumph brands.
Travelodge / 4001 S. General Bruce Drive
Travelodge by Wyndham Temple previously flew the Americas Best Value Inn flag, it changed between 2008 and 2011.
Sunoco / 4015 S. General Bruce Drive
This has been Shell since at least 2007 (likely back to at least 2003) but between summer 2022 and summer 2023 rebranded as a Sunoco. It still has Shell's "Food Mart" signage in their font. Despite the 4015 address it is WEST of 4025 below.
Budget Inn / 4025 S. General Bruce Drive
This motel has been here for decades. It was called Budget Inn in 2005 (to today) but from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s was Oak Lodge Motel. When it changed names is unknown.
Acme Brick Tile & Stone / 4040 S. General Bruce Drive
Temple's location of Acme Brick. It's been here since 1998 (and built as such).
Sol De Jalisco Mexican Restaurant / 4201 South General Bruce Drive
From 1997 to January 2005 (though the catering side of the restaurant lingered on, likely into 2006), this was El Conquistador Restaurant. In 2010, Sol De Jalisco opened here. In fall 2021, the restaurant made national news when an angry customer threw a bowl of spicy menudo at a manager's face.
Residence Inn by Marriott / 4301 S. General Bruce Drive
Residence Inn by Marriott Temple was built sometime between 2005 and 2008.
LongHorn Steakhouse / 4507 S. General Bruce Drive
This chain restaurant opened in 2014 in the parking lot of Gateway Center. Gateway Center, anchored by Ashley and Cinemark, is a little harder to nail down because everything has the same address, making it difficult to find the original anchors, and aerials suggest that it was a mini-mall (possibly outlets) at one time.
Classic Inn / 4508 S. General Bruce Drive
This small, cheap motel has around a dozen rooms and has been here for decades.
DriveTime Used Cars / 4715 S. General Bruce Dr.
This was once a Suzuki/Subaru car dealership and then became Cap Fleet Upfitters before disappearing around 2016, allowing DriveTime to move here.
Golden Corral / 5101 S. General Bruce Drive
This opened in 2013, a few years after the old Dodgen location closed (see HK Dodgen Loop page). It's not directly accessible from the highway frontage road, instead it's off of Tristan Lane, which connects to the frontage road.
Holiday Inn / 5247 S. General Bruce Drive
Holiday Inn Temple-Belton was built between 2005 and 2008. It isn't directly accessible off of the freeway's frontage road, like the Golden Corral next door, it is accessed through Tristan Lane.
Sunoco / 5421 South General Bruce Drive
A small gas station with the store fitting over the canopy, this used to be a Philips 66 (until 2021 or 2022). For such a store to be branded as a Sunoco (which usually has 7-Eleven stores in this part of the country) is unusual.
Mexicano Bar & Grill / 5509 S. General Bruce Dr.
More accurately, Mexicano Bar & Grill #3, this was likely some sort of chain restaurant but I can't find it.
Valero / 5510 S. General Bruce Drive
This Diamond Shamrock gained the Corner Store/Valero name in the mid-2000s and eventually became a Circle K/Valero.
Horny Toad Harley-Davidson / 7454 S. General Bruce Drive
This motorcycle dealership was built in 2009, relocating from from 720 N. General Bruce Drive, where it had been from 2006 to 2009.
