Texas Beverage / 1210 North Loop 340
Also known as "Texas Beverage Beer * Liquor * Wine", this store only dates back to 2010 (despite looking far older); it was a Carquest Auto Parts with an outdated sign prior to this.
1205 North Loop 340
Much like the nearby Albertsons later on, Kmart (#7220) had a second Waco-area store in the Bellmead/Lacy-Lakeview area. It opened in November 1978 and closed by March 1995, though it wasn't part of the 1995 closures announced in 1994. From 2002 to 2012 it was the home to a call center for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and in 2013, became home to a call center operated by General Dynamics Information Technology to field questions about the Affordable Care Act. Since around mid-2018, an Empereon call center has been located here, but as of the early 2020s seems to have closed entirely. The former garden center has live plants once more; as it had been turned into (under BCBS, almost certainly) a partially shaded outdoor lounge area for employees. It is a nice touch.
KFC / 1133 North Loop 340
This KFC has been operational since around early 1994 (possibly 12/1993).
Valero / 1020 N. Loop 340
From 1984 to 1991, this was Payless Gas, and later became a Diamond Shamrock/Corner Store. In the mid-2000s, the station itself was rebranded as Valero with Corner Store going away in favor of Circle K by the late 2010s. Sometime around the time it was rebranded (though it is entirely possible it was under Diamond Shamrock) the station was torn down and rebuilt.
Wendy's / 1004 N. Loop 340
The Wendy's in the former Wal-Mart parking lot was built in the late 1990s or the very early 2000s. The restaurant was built after Wal-Mart left.
1000 N. Loop 340
This building served as a Wal-Mart (#1254) from 1988 to 1995, when it moved to the south side of Loop 340 and got a new I-35 address. As of 2019, it had, from left to right, a Dollar General (1002B), Bealls (1000), American Freight (1002), and Gold's Gym Express (1000). Bealls closed in the 2020 bankruptcy of Stage Stores, and I believe it was that space that American Freight replaced. More information coming in a future update.
QuikTrip / 951 N. Loop 340
Opened in the summer 2022, the second QuikTrip in the Waco area was the home of the very last Luby's in the Waco-Temple-Killeen area, and operated from 1986 to July 30, 2021. The three-pointed sign was very visible from I-35 and gave it a bit of resemblance that the sign is rotating, but alas, it was sold to QuikTrip before the rest of the chain was saved.
Whataburger / 950 North Loop 340
Originally opened in 1990, this store was closed and demolished in 2020 after its three-decade run. The new iteration of the store opened in November 2020, featuring a prototype design for Whataburger and the first of its kind.
Texas Car Title and Payday Loan / 800 N. Loop 340
This 2001-built building once held a Shipley Do-Nuts and Subway but in 2008 they fled (both packed up and moved for 600 North Loop 340) and the current tenant assumed the space by spring 2009.
Casa Olé / 725 North Loop 340
The location of this (shrinking) Mexican restaurant opened sometime around December 1996.
Domino's / 700 North Loop 340
Domino's Pizza #6989 (the "Pizza" was dropped, and the store has current signage) opened in 2001 to replace a store at 4108 Corsicana Highway.
Pizza Hut / 901 N. Loop 340
Pizza Hut opened a full-service restaurant here in July 1991. As of late 2025 it has the classic Pizza Hut logo again, the one everyone knows and loves.
Advance Auto Parts / 611 N. Loop 340
Advance Auto Parts #6473 was built and opened here in 2004.
Golden Chick / 524 N. Loop 340
Golden Chick opened here in the fall of 2016.
Dollar Tree / 522 N. Loop 340
The Dollar Tree also opened in the mid-2010s, though before Golden Chick.
Skate Country / 500 N. Loop 340
Skate Country's history began with a tragedy. Charlie and Linda Lucas lived in Waco and had at the time leased Skate World, but never owned it and wanted a roller-skating rink of their own, working to make ends meet but never having enough. Skate Country opened in November 1996 with a terrible price to pay--it was paid with life insurance and a settlement from a trucking company after Linda was killed in a traffic collision with a trucker who had fallen asleep and hit her head on.
A-MAX Auto Insurance / 100 N. Loop 340
This auto insurance storefront keeps the canopy of a gas station it inhabits but I haven't dug into the history of this one.
Valero / 110 E. Loop 340
In 1980, Payless Gas opened here and was sold to Diamond Shamrock/Corner Store around 1991. The original building also had an adjacent laundromat ("Wash-N-Dry") but when Valero (which had rebranded the gas brand in the mid-2000s) demolished the building in 2012, the new Corner Store that opened in 2013 did not have any other stores nearby. By the late 2010s, Circle K had rebranded Corner Store.
M. Lipsitz & Co. / 4205 Texas 340 Loop
This local metal recycler opened this facility sometime around 2004 or 2005, and I remember when I spied it and its brand-new rail spur (though this "brand-new rail spur" didn't last long before it became more disused, and thus rustier, than the main line). This replaced their spur in east Waco, which had more crossings (including a crossing at West Waco Drive and Dallas Street that practically went right through the intersection, though this was almost never used and I'm not even sure was actually connected).
This appears to use the East Loop numbering, but not part of East Loop 340 as it is west of Marlin Highway. Just west of here is the intersection with Marlin Highway, in which Highway 6 continues south and west (concurrently with Loop 340 from that point). There used to be a railroad crossing (a spur of I&GN) until around 2016 when it was officially abandoned, and stoplights were added at the intersection a few years later. Prior to the stoplights, only the left lane of Loop 340 continued clockwise, the right lane was a right-only yield lane. This was likely because when Loop 340 was originally built in the late 1970s, it dead-ended at the highway, with Highway 6 continuing into Waco.
Lindsey Contractors / 701 S. Loop 340
The headquarters of this roadway building company have been here since the mid-1990s, but it was bought by a larger company in 2011.
Loop 340 Overhead Door Co. / 817 S. Loop 340
Overhead doors for the garage or commercial uses.
T&W Tire / 945 S. Loop 340
This business was finished in 2017, several years after its neighbors were.
Built Wright Construction / 963 S. Loop 340
Contracting construction company
Area Wide Protective / 1800 S. Loop 340
In 2016, AWP acquired (and later rebranded) the predecessor business here, N-Line Traffic Maintenance, a supplier of barricades, barriers, and other road construction signage.
Phil's Trailer Sales / 3100 S. Loop 340
Moving from their old 1711 Circle Road location around 2015, Phil's Trailer Sales occupies this spot just off Loop 340 and Robinson Road. It has a back entrance into a residential subdivision, something that's great for access reasons but the neighbors must not be happy about.
Cottonwood Creek Veterinary Hospital / 2200 South Loop 340
This vet office was built around 2018-2019.
Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Waco / 3600 S. Loop 340
This rehab hospital opened in July 2021.
4650 South Loop 340
Cabinets to Go was built here around the late 2000s. Around 2024-2025, the space was subdivided to include Lumber Liquidators (which the parent company of Cabinets to Go purchased out of bankruptcy).
Here, Loop 340 crosses Interstate 35 once more. The Interstate 35/Loop 340 interchange was rebuilt in the mid to late 2000s. It's a bit hard to describe but it made the interchange more direct without the numerous yield spots and tight curves that plagued the old ramp. For whatever reason, though, you can't go from westbound 340 to northbound I-35 without being funneled through the New Road stoplight. Check out the I-35 page here. At this point the road becomes West Loop 340.
Central Texas Marketplace / 2400 W. Loop 340
This power center began construction in 2003, opened its first phase by 2005, and still hasn't still built out everything yet. This PDF from 2016 doesn't even begin to cover half of it (literally). A later phase was built facing Interstate 35 (see that page).
I don't have a full chronology of every tenant, but I can cover a few things.
- 29 and 29a used to be Sports Authority (closed in December 2014, before the rest of the chain kicked it—turns out it was one of the worst-performing stores in the chain). Later half of it became F21 Red, which replaced the Forever 21 at Richland Mall, but this store was closed in 2019 (Richland Mall dodged a bullet!)
- Dressbarn and Pier 1 Imports died with the bankruptcy of their respective chains.
- Belk was one of the first big tenants in the center, and one of the first Texas Belk stores that was in what could be considered a major market. This Belk is still open for now, who knows what will happen with Belk's future.
- In 2020, a Wendy's (2724 West Loop 340) opened next to the Newk's.
Los Cucos Mexican Cafe / 2805 W. Loop 340
Los Cucos' access is entirely from Creekview (part of the restaurants in the "Legends Crossing" development) but this opened as Quaker Steak & Lube in 2012, closing in June 2014. According to the Waco Tribune-Herald, the restaurant "saw sizable crowds many evenings when local motorcycle riders gathered there, but often gave an abandoned appearance at lunchtime". (The motorcyclists migrated to the nearby Twin Peaks...we all know how that turned out). In May 2015 it reopened as Heitmiller Steakhouse and closed in December 2017 when the owner decided that the second location (see the I-35 page) wasn't working out, with May 2018 having the opening of its current tenant, Los Cucos Mexican Cafe.
Bird Kultgen Ford / 1701 W. Loop 340
County records indicate Bird Kultgen Ford has been here since 1986, with an expansion done in 1999.
Jeff Hunter Toyota / 1440 W. Loop 340
Jeff Hunter Toyota relocated here in 2001 from 4501 West Waco Drive. An expansion was done in 2009.
Caliber Collision / 1401 West Loop 340
Caliber Collision built a location here in the early 2020s.
1400 W. Loop 340
This office building serves as a call center for Atmos Energy. I don't know its original tenant.
Richard Karr Buick GMC / 900 West Loop 340
This car dealership was opened around 2013.
700 West Loop 340
Integ (digital printing studio), also has Yusen Logistics in suite B. The outlets to the facility shared access with Oxygen Drive, which has since closed entirely (Oxygen Drive). My records say this used to be MailMax Direct.
College HUNKS Hauling Junk & Moving / 120 West Loop 340
Former long-time home to DuPuy Oxygen (hence the names of the nearby road, Oxygen and Du Puy). It moved around 2011 and later leased its former space to Diamond Athletics before it too moved moved in 2018. By 2022 it had become College H.U.N.K.S. Hauling Junk & Moving.
Whataburger / 100 W. Loop 340
Whataburger (#357) has been here since 1983 though was originally numbered as 1100 S. Loop 340 (possibly accidentally). At this point, coverage of the road ends as we go toward West Highway 6. Check out the new Woodway/Franklin page.