Hewitt Drive starts at Highway 84 and continues down to I-35 (the northern part beyond 84 is Estates Drive). In any case, this starts at the Woodway Drive interchange. I do have fond memories of this corridor, but as of Version 4.0 it's essentially finalized (not comprehensive, but no major updates planned).

Version 4.0 does change a few things to streamline the page. Added: 208 Hewitt Drive, 736 Hewitt Drive (former Salad and Go), Westrock Centre, Wendy's, Keith Hardware, Sonic Drive-In, O'Reilly Auto Parts, Midway Middle School, Meadowpark Townhomes, HTeaO, Billy Bob's Burgers Bar & Grill, and McDonald's (at Agile Street)
Updated: Take 5 Oil Change, Bush's Chicken, Golden Chick, Whataburger, Club Car Wash (previously titled as "Genie Car Wash & Fast Lube"), Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (previously titled as "Hewitt Autoplex"), KFC, Agaves Mexican Kitchen (previously titled as "Chopsticks"), Daylight Donuts, 318 North Hewitt Drive (previously titled as "Shipley Do-Nuts"), and 315-319 S. Hewitt Drive.
Removed: H-E-B plus! (moved to Woodway/Franklin page), Pet Supplies Plus (has its own page), 109 West Panther Way, CEFCO (at Ritchie), and Conoco

WOODWAY DRIVE to MARS DRIVE

Take 5 Oil Change / 201 Hewitt Drive
This opened sometime in spring 2022. It replaced a Jack in the Box restaurant, which operated from 1991 to no later than January 2021 (though I believe it closed in 2020). While the building and parking lot are all-new, the signage infrastructure was recycled. This, the Pet Supplies Plus to the south and the H-E-B plus! to the north are in Woodway, until it becomes North Hewitt Drive, everything is in the Waco city limits unless noted.

208 Hewitt Drive
The most consistent tenant in this retail building has been Starbucks opened in 2007. Another early tenant was Keva Juice, but by 2011 the tenant lineup consisted of Papa Murphy's (in Keva Juice's space) and EZLoan. As of 2026 (this writing) there's only Starbucks and The UPS Store.

SpareBox Storage / 501 Hewitt Drive
The main access to this storage unit center, formerly Aaron's Self Storage II, is off of Old McGregor Road, though it has a Hewitt address. In 2017, the units closest to Hewitt Drive were torn down and rebuilt as modern, two-story buildings with climate control, but in 2021 it was bought out and rebranded to SpareBox Storage.

Walmart / 600 Hewitt Drive

Wal-Mart Supercenter #5389 opened in June 2004 and did not appear to replace any smaller Walmart store. It replaced some sort of warehouse (previous history unknown) and when the store opened, it originally had a McDonald's inside. I do remember this McDonald's, it had a mural of the 1950s-era McDonald's in the back, complete with a large painting of "Speedee", their old mascot. They also had pretzels like Walmart McDonald's did.

Later on this got replaced with a Subway (probably about the time it got the "Walmart" re-do in the early 2010s), which has since closed. Picture courtesy MCAD.

736 Hewitt Drive
From what I could tell this former Salad and Go opened 2024 and closed August 2025. It was soon functionally replaced with a store closer to Baylor (I assume the original plan was that both stores were to open, but the failure of this store meant the Baylor store was its replacement) but even that was short-lived.

Do It Best Retail Service Center / 801 Hewitt Drive
Large distribution center for Do It Best Corporation. Do It Best has been here since at least the mid-2000s. Unfortunately, I can't find much on when they occupied the space or when the building was built.

CEFCO / 905 Hewitt Drive
This CEFCO has only been a CEFCO gas brand (formerly Exxon) since November 2016 and November 2017, but the convenience store has portion has been a CEFCO since 1994 when it opened as CEFCO #9.

McDonald's / 913 Hewitt Drive
The exterior and interior of this McDonald's has been upgraded to modern prototypes but the restaurant has been open since 1996.

Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest Clinic - Hewitt / 1001 Hewitt Drive
Formerly Hillcrest Clinic until the BS&W partnership, this clinic has general family medicine doctors as well as a Baylor Scott & White Pharmacy on-site.

Taco Bell / 1101 Hewitt Drive
This Taco Bell opened in 1996.

Westrock Centre / 1201 Hewitt Drive
This strip center has a PDF that is attached here (archived from here). The restaurant on the end (Suite 100) started out as a location of Beef O'Brady's but it folded within a year or so, and became Hondo's Sports Bar & Grill before becoming the second location of Waco-based George's Restaurant & Bar. The current tenants also include a variety of others including Wingstop, F45 Training, and Pappa Rollo's Pizza.

Bush's Chicken / 1301 Hewitt Drive
Bush's Chicken has been here since 2008. It has long been a fixture of Hewitt Drive, moving twice after being founded in what is now Agaves Mexican Kitchen.

Wendy's / 1417 Hewitt Drive
Wendy's opened this location in late 1999 based on records I could find.

Keith Hardware / 1424 Hewitt Drive
Also known as Keith Ace Hardware, from what I can tell, this store has been here since 1997 when it moved from 235 N. Hewitt Drive.

CEFCO / 1425 Hewitt Drive
This got the CEFCO gas brand at around the same time as the Exxon above (except this one was a Shell prior), with CEFCO operating here since 2000, buying a pre-existing convenience store.

Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers / 1501 Hewitt Drive

This new-construction Raising Cane's (opened June 2015) replaced a Burger King (pictured above), which operated from 1998 to spring 2014 and featured an indoor playground. The Hewitt Raising Cane's was the 73rd in the state and 225th nationally, as well as the second Raising Cane's in the Waco area.

The picture is from McLennan County Appraisal District, and the cut-off portion shows that it was taken in the year 2008. That Burger King Kids Club sign remained until its closure, long after being irrelevant.

McAlister's Deli / 1505 Hewitt Drive
This McAlister's Deli location opened in the year 2000. The logo has been updated and no doubt the interior has been touched up, but it remains very much the same as it did over two decades ago.

Goodwill / 1508 Hewitt Drive
Heart of Texas Goodwill Industries has been operating a donation center/retail store here since spring of 1997.

Sonic Drive-In / 1512 Hewitt Drive
This Sonic Drive-In was built in 1999, replacing their older store at 324 North Hewitt Drive.

Golden Chick / 1524 Hewitt Drive
The Chick came home to roost in Waco once more in January 2016. It's a fried chicken restaurant, of course. Its sign tends to block Whataburger's due to their close proximity to each other.

Whataburger / 1528 Hewitt Drive
It appears that this Whataburger opened in January 1999, but even in 2002, it seemed very new and still isolated.

MARS DRIVE to WEST WARREN STREET

Burger King / 1601 Hewitt Drive
The King re-emerged in January 2020 (just blocks away from its old location) in this former Taco Bueno, which operated from mid-2006 to around December 2018.

1701 Hewitt Drive
This building has a Dunkin' (with Baskin-Robbins) and, since February 2022, Athletico Physical Therapy. The Dunkin' side opened in 2019.

Club Car Wash / 915 N. Hewitt Drive
Before this point, Hewitt Drive was in the Waco city limits, and when it enters Hewitt officially, Hewitt Drive becomes "North Hewitt Drive" despite heading south. This address was first developed as Genie Car Wash & Fast Lube in 1985 and despite another Genie Car Wash being further down on Hewitt, this one had the classic neon signage as it was built to be almost identical to the 1964 Valley Mills Drive location. It also had Exxon gas initially and five self-service bays. In 2006 it was partially redeveloped when the gas station component, along with a vacant building that was originally built as Taco Torch for a small strip center, but in 2023 the rest of the car wash was redeveloped as a Club Car Wash location, which kept nothing of the previous facility, neither structure nor sign nor parking. (A real shame).

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen / 847 N. Hewitt Drive
From 1983 to 1998 this was Phillin' Station, a Waco area convenience store that used Shell gas, and from 1998 to 1999 it was a TETCO (they stopped using Shell, at least the 903 N. Valley Mills location switched to Mobil). As of January 2000 it was Lonestar Suzuki, and from 2003 to 2008 it was a less-successful second location of Katie's Frozen Custard (see the Valley Mills page). Midway Motors took over by late 2008 (but only used half the building and using the address of 843 N. Hewitt) while Texas State Low Cost Insurance took over the other half. By May 2013 it was Texas Autowerx with the tagline of "Classic and 'Not-So-Classic' Cars" and after a brief interlude of being home of Impact Nutrition Supplements & Smoothies (it had a drive-through) from fall 2016 to sometime in 2017. After that, it became Hewitt Autoplex until sometime around late 2022 when it was closed (vacated by early 2023). In 2024 it was demolished for a Popeyes, which opened in 2025.

Taqueria Altos De Jalisco / 719 N. Hewitt Drive
This was a Wienerschnitzel from 1998 to 2000, then Church's Chicken from 2002 to 2003. It has been Altos de Jaliscos since 2003.

Taco Casa / 710 Hewitt Drive
Taco Casa opened here in 2008 shortly after Bush's Chicken (Bush's Golden Crisp Chicken, originally) moved, which had previously operated here from around 2001 to 2008.

Family Dollar / 709 North Hewitt Drive
Family Dollar opened here in early 2009 to replace their store down at the "Hewitt Mall".

Rosa's Cafe & Tortilla Factory / 703 N. Hewitt Drive
This used to be the site of a bank at 701 N. Hewitt Drive, built in 1984 (in 1986 it was First Federal Bank), by the mid-2000s it was The National Banks of Central Texas based out of Gatesville. Sometime around early 2017, the namewas changed to NationalUnited. By 2020, the branch was closed. Rosa's opened in the spring of 2022 in a new building, and did not replace the 2005-opened Rosa's off of Franklin Avenue.

Whistling Duck's / 621 N. Hewitt Drive
Gas station with Midway Food Mart. It converted from a Texaco sometime around late June 2022.

Brookside Apartments 620 N. Hewitt Drive
Circa 2008, these apartments were known as "Four Seasons" and assumed their current name a few years later. Based on the name of the subdivision of these apartments, they possibly were that name back in 1976 when they were built.

O'Reilly Auto Parts / 616 N. Hewitt Drive
This opened in 2001 and was once the home to the Hewitt area post office. In 1997, they announced that they would move to a new location (built as 901 S. Hewitt Drive). In June 1999 a fire prematurely forced the closure of the post office, though construction was almost done at the location and the new location opened later that month. The building remained vacant until O'Reilly opened.

KFC / 615 N. Hewitt Drive
This KFC was built new in 2019 in the parking lot of the building behind it, which was a Food Lion from 1992 to 1994 but a call center mostly since. (More on that on another time).

Midway Middle School / 600 N. Hewitt Drive
Up until the early 2000s, this was the home of Midway High School, and in the early 2000s they moved to 8200 Mars Drive, at which point Midway Middle School took its place, which had been at Estates Drive and Woodway Drive. (I believe that Woodway High School was originally at the corner of Estates and Woodway Drive, though by 1982 they had assumed the positions they would keep until around 2003-2004)

Meadowpark Townhomes / 509 N. Hewitt Drive This townhome complex has been here since the 1990s. Of note, it originally also had access to Lindenwood Lane South, but since at least 2003 it's been fenced off, possibly for security reasons, possibly because somebody didn't like using the apartment's parking lot being used as a way to cut through.

Agaves Mexican Kitchen / 500 Hewitt Drive

Golden Fried Chicken was here from 1985 to the late 1990s when the franchise split off and renamed it as Bush's Gold-N-Crisp Chicken, the first location of what is now known as Bush's Chicken. For a very brief time in the early 2000s it was Bush's Crispy Taco, a short-lived spin-off of the restaurant, and operated as Chopsticks, a local Waco Chinese take-out since 2003. The picture from McLennan County Appraisal District was taken in 2004. In 2025, Chopsticks built a new location behind their old location at 507 Connie Drive, with their old location becoming its current tenant as of June 2026.

Daylight Donuts / 324 North Hewitt Drive
Daylight Donuts has been operating here in a new-build building since 2007. It replaced a Sonic that operated here from circa 1979 until around 1999 when a new store was built up the road.

318 North Hewitt Drive
This Shell with "Hewitt Food Mart" inside shut down between 2017 and 2018; however, the Shipley Do-Nuts counter inside the store continued to operate despite the closure of everything else for several more years.

Mexicano Grille / 259 N. Hewitt Drive
Mexicano Grille opened in 2017. Mazzio's Pizza operated here from 1998 to around early 2017.

Davis Iron Works Inc. / 224 N. Hewitt Drive
Davis Iron Works has been here since 1974 and later became Davis Steel Services & Iron Works. In the warehouse portion, Metals 2 Go has been here since 2003, but according to tax records are the same company. The warehouse originally had a railroad spur, but in the late 2000s was removed.

Uncle Dan's Bar-B-Que / 231 North Hewitt Drive
According to Waco Today, this restaurant opened in 1990, but according to McLennan County Appraisal District, the building was built in 1984. It was "Pizza Plus" originally from 1984 to 1989, and briefly RDJ's Burgers in a Flash (a second location spun off from the original restaurant in Temple) before becoming Uncle Dan's in 1990.

225 N. Hewitt Drive
Nutone Cleaners has been here since at least 2001. Little Caesars has been here since 1996.

HTeaO / 137 North Hewitt Drive The long-standing Genie Self Serve Car Wash here disappeared circa 2023 and replaced by HTeaO sometime in 2024.

HEWITT PLAZA

WEST WARREN STREET to SPRING VALLEY ROAD

315-319 S. Hewitt Drive

This former Fina gas station has not been a Fina in years. It wasn't a Fina back in late 2002 (my first recollection of it) and I think it stopped selling gas sometime around 2004 (this picture is from January 2004, not too long before the station shut up entirely--courtesy McLennan County Appraisal District). Islamic Center of Hewitt was apparently at 317 South Hewitt in the same building in the early 2020s, and based on some pictures they had done some work inside. You can't really tell much of anything that's been there, especially as the parking lot in front of the suites facing South Hewitt Drive have been removed.

Castleman Creek Elementary School / 755 South Hewitt Drive
This Midway ISD school opened in 2010.

Billy Bob's Burgers Bar & Grill / 899 S. Hewitt Drive
This opened as Triple B's Smokehouse Bar & Grill in January 2022 but by summer 2023 had become its current tenant. Behind it is the Prestige Plaza strip center.

SPRING VALLEY ROAD to INTERSTATE 35

McDonald's / 1450 S. Hewitt Drive
The local news on Facebook reported that this McDonald's restaurant opened December 2025.

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