5005 Richmond has been a few things over the years, with this article attempting to cover all three. These were built as The Royal Windsor, an apartment complex, in 1962. By the early 1980s these had transformed into Post Oak Quarters (some interior renovations seem to have undertaken in this process—the originally it had 2 and 3 bedroom suites, Post Oak Quarters had just two). In the early 1990s, the apartment complex was torn down for what would be a large Best Buy and a few smaller stores (see the Richmond page), with the 5005 Richmond address specifically getting reused for a Marie Callendar's restaurant in front of the shopping center (there were three others in the Houston area, with restaurants in other Texas cities like Waco. Marie Callender's began pulling out of Texas in 2002 (with the last of them closing in 2016) as the company shrank. By 2004, Marie Callender's had been torn down for a Chick-fil-A, which operated for more than a decade before closing around May of 2019 for the Uptown BRT system. The address hasn't been used since.

For what it's worth, I ate at the Chick-fil-A in November 2016.

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