This page was originally the "West Houston Roads" page (see this page for its replacements) and today covers Westheimer Road beyond Beltway 8. (Other sections of Westheimer Road can be accessed from that same page). This not only covers Westheimer Road, but out to the suburbs as the numbering continues as FM 1093. Phillips 66 / 10612 Westheimer Road Taco Bell / 10615 Westheimer Road McDonald's / 10703 Westheimer Road 10770-10778 Westheimer Road Wendy's / 10780 Westheimer Road 10810 Westheimer Road Burlington / 10960 Westheimer Road Dollar Tree / 10964 Westheimer Road 11000 Westheimer Road Waffle House / 11240 Westheimer Road Yoyo Adventure Land / 11320 Westheimer Road CVS / 11540 Westheimer Road H-E-B / 11815 Westheimer Road Slim Chickens / 11919 Westheimer Road Crunch Fitness / 11940 Westheimer Road Luby's / 12121 Westheimer Road Phoenicia Specialty Foods / 12141 Westheimer Road Texas Thrift / 12400 Westheimer Road Shipley Do-Nuts / 12403 Westheimer Road Denny's / 12405 Westheimer Road 12584-12586 Westheimer Road McDonald's / 12625 Westheimer Road ClearChannel Outdoor - Houston Offices / 12852 Westheimer Road Artesian on Westheimer / 13099 Westheimer Road 13155 Westheimer Road 13331 Westheimer Road Jollibee / 13347 Westheimer Road Burlington / 13441 Westheimer Road Alief Center for Talent Development / 14411 Westheimer Road Amala Zone / 14815 Westheimer Road Shell / 17255 Westheimer Rd. Lakeview at Westpark / 18313 FM 1093 Grand Fountain Apartments / 23702 FM 1093 Xscape at Katy Fulshear / 26616 FM 1093 Quick Quack Car Wash / 26742 FM 1093
Version 5 makes the following changes:
Additions: McDonald's (10703), Wendy's, Burlington (at Lakeside Estates), Dollar Tree, 11000 Westheimer Road, Yoyo Adventure Land, CVS, 13331 Westheimer Road, Westheimer Marketplace, 12584-12586 Westheimer Road (Fiesta Mart and former Woolco/Kroger), McDonald's (12625), and Artesian on Westheimer.
Updates: Phillips 66, Westchase Shopping Center (expanded from "Target"), 10770-10778 Westheimer Road (previously titled as "10770 Westheimer Road"), Royal Oaks Village II (expanded from "11687 Westheimer Road"), and Burlington (at Eldridge Parkway South).
There were some grammar and other fixes made as well.
WEST SAM HOUSTON PARKWAY SOUTH to WILCREST DRIVE
This flagship Phillips 66 is near the new corporate headquarters. It opened January 2021 to replace a 1980s strip center (the two-story Kaleidoscope Center, demolished in 2020). Some more information can be seen at Houston Historic Retail. The convenience store here is OnCue, which you'll be hard-pressed to find beyond Oklahoma—this is the chain's only Texas location.
Taco Bell originally opened in 1993. At some point in the 2000s it converted to Taco Bell/Long John Silver's, but after its 2015 rebuild it just became a Taco Bell.
This was one of Houston's first Boston Market restaurants opening in fall of 1995 (it did open as Boston Market, not Boston Chicken, as it was right around the time the restaurant chain was rebranding). In 2008 it closed and McDonald's took over the spot later that year.
This started out as Handy Dan (home improvement store) from 1979 to 1989, then became Syms (1990-2011), then finally Tennis Express until around 2022. After that it was divided between Goodwill and Planet Fitness, the former taking the new numbering of 10778 Westheimer and Planet Fitness taking the legacy numbering of 10770 Westheimer.
This Wendy's has been here since 1980, though has been renovated inside and out since then.
WESTCHASE SHOPPING CENTER
In digging into this shopping center's history, it was originally an enclosed mall and anchored by Target and Craig's, with Weingarten (which also developed the center) off to the side and not connected. As for the shopping center today, I'm not sure what the original link was, but this PDF shows the shopping center as of May 2025.
This Church's Chicken opened circa 1986 but was closed and torn down in the mid-2010s. It's now just parking space.
The main anchor of Lakeside Village, this was originally a Randalls (#9) from 1977 to 1989 when it moved to Westchase Shopping Center (with a much nicer and larger store). Soon after it reopened as Office Depot, which operated up until 2024. Burlington replaced it the following year.
This Dollar Tree was here since 2002 and replaced Famous Footwear, which had opened in 1994. I'm pretty sure this was part of the Randalls described above (see 10960) but I guess Office Depot never filled the space, seems weird if it downscaled that early.
Becks Prime closed February 2026. This particular location opened around 1991.
WILCREST DRIVE to SOUTH KIRKWOOD DRIVE
This Waffle House opened in 1999 and is 24 hours.
According to my notes, this opened as Eagle Discount Supermarket in 1979, King Saver in 1985 following Eagle's demise, closed 1989, World Gym in 1992, changed hands to 24 Hour Fitness around 1998, and became Fitness Connection between 2009 and 2011. It was Fitness Connection in 2025 (or at the very least, had the signage up) but in May 2026 opened as Yoyo Adventure Land. It anchors the strip center around it.
This opened as Eckerd in 1997 and became CVS in 2004.
ROYAL OAKS VILLAGE II
This shopping center was developed in the early 2000s.
H-E-B opened December 2001 to replace an H-E-B Pantry catty-corner.
SOUTH KIRKWOOD DRIVE to HIGHWAY 6 SOUTH
This was a former Carl's Jr. opened in 2013 in the parking lot of Lowe's (Lowe's has a Kirkwood address) but closed around 2018-19. It reopened as Slim Chickens in 2022.
The main anchor of Kirkwood Shopping Center has mostly been a variety of grocery stores over the years. In late 1979 it opened as a location of Continental Finer Foods. Between 1981 and 1982 it changed hands to Westheimer Minimax, later Kingmart Minimax, and in May 1984, became Jumbo, another local Houston supermarket. Jumbo was still there in 1988, and after a brief stay as Sak-N-Sav, opened as H-E-B Pantry Foods in June 1993 and closed in December 2001 with the opening of a full H-E-B at 11815 Westheimer Road. In late 2002 it became Oshman's SuperSports USA (later rebranded to Sports Authority) until around 2012, at which point it was announced it would be Sprouts Farmers Market. In spring of 2023, after less than a decade, Sprouts exited the space along with two others in the Houston area. In 2025 it reopened as Crunch Fitness.
This Luby's originally opened in 1986 as Luby's Cafeteria. A plaque outside still bears its original name.
The west side of this shopping center was built in 2006, years after the eastern half. Purpose-built Phoenicia Specialty Foods has many imported food items (quantity over selection) but has fresh departments as well.
This opened as "Homer's", a hardware store chain in Houston (see Katy Freeway page), in 1982, but the chain went under in 1984 and this store reopened as Ross Dress for Less later that year, but that location, too, closed a few years later. By 1994 it was Repeat! Consignment Superstore and was 24 Hour Fitness starting around January 1997 and closed in 2007. It served very briefly as Christ Embassy before becoming Christ United Ministries International in the early 2010s to 2020. The current tenant opened in 2024.
This was a former Krispy Kreme/Jumble's Doughnut Factory and the first Krispy Kreme in Houston. After it closed in 2006 (as Jumble's) it became a Washington Mutual bank which failed within a few years (whole bank collapse) and in 2011 Arby's opened but that too ended within a few years. Shipley Do-Nuts opened here in October 2016.
This has been Denny's since 1997 except for a brief time in 2017 when it was Steve's Kitchen. Houston Historic Retail describes it here: "Houston's rogue Denny's—the tale of Steve's Kitchen".
WESTHEIMER MARKETPLACE
This shopping center was built in 1993 and a lease plan (found as of this writing, August 2026) can be seen here (archived from this page). I once remember seeing a lease plan that mentions Randalls leased the largest space and subleased it to 24 Hour Fitness, still, even under Albertsons. (I'm not sure if that's still true).
Originally this Woolco (store #6410, opened June 1979 with the address of 12586 Westheimer) and later became Kroger (1985-2007). Fiesta Mart #72 has been here since 2012. 12586 Westheimer is in use as the address next door (Innovista Medical Center...or at least as of January 2025).
The original incarnation of this McDonald's operated from 1993 to around 2012. There was some sort of schoolhouse-looking building behind it that I can't ascertain the purpose of...a separate party room?
This was originally JoeAuto when it was built in 2001, a huge independent auto service and repair center (27 bays!) and built a few more Texas locations before going under in 2004. Sometime between 2007 and 2011, It became the Houston offices for Clear Channel Outdoor by 2011. At the time, it was a subsidiary of radio company Clear Channel Communications (later known as iHeartMedia), but Clear Channel Outdoor was spun off in 2018 as an independent company.
Completed around 2010 or 2011 as Arium Westheimer, this apartment complex got its current name by 2017. It contains 660 units, including the original Villas at Westheimer (built around 2006-2007) it was built as an expansion to. Villas at Westheimer (2727 Synott) which renamed to Arium after the expansion (and later Artesian), though it kept the 2727 Synott name for these units.
The red "CINEMA" signage is still there, but Windchimes Cinema 8 operated from 1981 to 2018 in this mostly-empty strip center (Wind Chimes Shopping Center). It was a dollar theater for many years but it is not known when exactly they became such. One other notable tenant in Wind Chimes is Chopan Kabob House (13117). It was Red Lobster prior to sometime in the early to mid-1990s.
On the far side of the parking lot is 13331 Westheimer Road, which does face Westheimer (albeit a good setback away), which was originally home to a short-lived Sam's Club. That store opened in September 2013 but closed in January 2018. Walmart did plan to re-open the store in 2022 but these plans were scuttled soon after. (I think HHR mentioned it). In November 2025, Launch Family Entertainment opened (grand opening was in December), though it only occupies suite 100 (doesn't take the whole space).
Jollibee opened in early 2021 in a former Pollo Tropical (opened in 2015 but closed in September 2017; it was one of the last Pollo Tropical stores to shut in Houston).
Burlington opened here in 2018 (moved from 14411 Westheimer Road), with Party City (later Five Below, after Party City closed) occupying the rest of the building. The building was originally Gander Mountain, which operated from November 2014 to its bankruptcy in August 2017. It faces Eldridge but is one of the few tenants at Market Square at Eldridge (see site plan, archived from this link) with a Westheimer Road address.
This building actually faces west toward Highway 6. In July 1993, Venture (#122) opened a new discount department store here. Kmart (under the "Big Kmart" brand) replaced it and all but three Houston stores bought the stores in 1997 and closed it in summer 1997, reopening it in November 1997 under its own name. In April 2003 it closed and reopened in September 2004 as Burlington Coat Factory. Burlington (as it was later known) moved out in 2018 (to 13441 Westheimer Road)
and the building was sold to Alief ISD in 2019, with a renovated structure opening in 2021.
HIGHWAY 6 SOUTH to WEST GRAND PARKWAY SOUTH
This African restaurant is located in a former Applebee's which closed c. 2017 (and opened very late 2005/early 2006). Notably, it is an outparcel of West Oaks Mall. I wrote a bit on West Oaks Mall myself (you can also see HHR's take on it). The mall doesn't have a Westheimer address but is where Sears, JCPenney, and Mervyn's represented themselves on Westheimer.
The last address of Westheimer Road (before just becoming FM 1093) is this Shell station with Timewise as the convenience store. The FM 1093 designation comes at the Westpark Drive split.
This apartment complex was built in the early 2020s.
WEST GRAND PARKWAY SOUTH to the Brazos River
This apartment complex was built around 2015.
This movie theater opened in June 2018. It features 12 screens.
This car wash was established in 2024. A similar one exists in the Westheimer Road drag between Beltway 8 and Loop 610.
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