WEST SAM HOUSTON PARKWAY SOUTH to WILCREST DRIVE

Phillips 66 / 10612 Westheimer Road
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.

Taco Bell / 10615 Westheimer Road
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.

10770 Westheimer Road
Today this building is divided between Goodwill and Planet Fitness. Tennis Express, its previous tenant, moved out around 2022. Before that it was a Syms (1990-2011) and started life as a Handy Dan (1979-1989).

Target / 10801 Westheimer Road
Target is part of Westchase Shopping Center (except when it comes to actual ownership). The store, Target T-75 and originally opened in 1979 with an expansion and renovation done around 2006.

10810 Westheimer Road
This Church's Chicken opened circa 1986 but was closed and torn down in the mid-2010s. It's now just parking space.

WILCREST DRIVE to SOUTH KIRKWOOD DRIVE

Waffle House / 11240 Westheimer Road
This Waffle House opened in 1999 and is 24 hours.

11687 Westheimer Road
From 2004 to 2008 this was CompUSA, and after a few years of temporary tenants reopened as Sears Outlet in spring 2012 (later rebranded as American Freight in 2020). It was closed in 2024 with the bankruptcy of parent company Franchise Group, which acquired Sears Outlet in 2019.

H-E-B / 11815 Westheimer Road
H-E-B opened December 2001 to replace an H-E-B Pantry catty-corner.

SOUTH KIRKWOOD DRIVE to HIGHWAY 6 SOUTH

Slim Chickens / 11919 Westheimer Road
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.

Crunch Fitness / 11940 Westheimer Road
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.

Luby's / 12121 Westheimer Road
This Luby's originally opened in 1986 as Luby's Cafeteria. A plaque outside still bears its original name.

Phoenicia Specialty Foods / 12141 Westheimer Road
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.

Texas Thrift / 12400 Westheimer Road
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.

Shipley Do-Nuts / 12403 Westheimer Road
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.

Denny's / 12405 Westheimer Road
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".

ClearChannel Outdoor - Houston Offices / 12852 Westheimer Road
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.

13155 Westheimer Road
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.

Jollibee / 13347 Westheimer Road
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 / 13441 Westheimer Road
Burlington opened here in 2018 (moved from 14411 Westheimer Road), with Party City 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. On the far side of the parking lot is 13331 Westheimer Road, which does face Westheimer (albeit a good setback away), which was home of 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 mentions it).

Alief Center for Talent Development / 14411 Westheimer Road
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

Amala Zone / 14815 Westheimer Road
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.

Shell / 17255 Westheimer Rd.
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.

Lakeview at Westpark / 18313 FM 1093
This apartment complex was built in the early 2020s.

WEST GRAND PARKWAY SOUTH to the Brazos River

Xscape at Katy Fulshear / 26616 FM 1093
This movie theater opened in June 2018a>. It features 12 screens.

Quick Quack Car Wash / 26742 FM 1093
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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