This page, although it re-uses the URL of "Waco Miscellaneous Roads", is all-new as of Version 1.0 to focus on Waco Drive, both West Waco Drive and a bit on East Waco Drive. A few of these entries were originally posted as part of the Woodway Drive page, but it turns out that despite getting both lanes and keeping the US-84 designation, the addresses were from Franklin. US-84 continues west as Woodway Drive west of Loop 340.
Exxon / 1116 W. Waco Drive
This is currently Exxon with Houston-based Buzzy Bee and in 2008 was Texaco, then by 2013 was a debranded Chevron called Chapman's Food Mart, which based on these Google Street View images was forced to change its logo to something less Chevron-like. Between 2013 and 2018 it became an Exxon with Buzzy Bee (which, as I've mentioned before, had its own issues with infringing logos).
Kim's 50's Diner / 2600 West Waco Drive
This is the second incarnation of a long-running diner. The current version opened in fall 2014 but the original "Kim's" operated from 1963 to 2013 when it closed permanently due to health violations.
Car Mel Apartments / 3638 West Waco Drive
This has gone under different names, once Carmel Apartments, once Casa Carmel Apartments, and originally Casa Car Mel Apartments, which it was when it first appeared mentioned in 1978.
U-Haul Moving & Storage / 4216 West Waco Drive
U-Haul Moving & Storage at Waco Drive has been here since 1991.
Mardel Christian & Education / 4324 West Waco Drive
I may be covering more of this shopping center in the future, but Mardel is one of the majors here that has been here since 2006. The shopping center was redeveloped sometime around the late 1990s after Kmart moved out to a nearby Super Kmart (which closed in 2003) in 1994. (See the Brazos Place shopping center PDF here).
The Bear Mountain / 4425 W. Waco Drive
Sporting goods store focused on the outdoors. It's been here since the late 2000s (though not 2007 when it was founded) and briefly had a College Station spin-off location.
Hill Country Paints / 4427 W. Waco Drive
This opened in 2024, not too long after Kelly-Moore Paints went under in January 2024. It had been here since at least 1977.
Bowlero Waco / 4565 W. Waco Drive
This opened as Westview Lanes in 1958 and was AMF Westview Lanes by the late 2000s. Eventually it was rebranded as Bowlero by the parent company.
El Conquistador / 4508 W. Waco Drive
This was originally the home of Nick's and opened in the 1960s to be the first restaurant in Waco to have a mixed-race waitstaff. In 1996 it closed with owner Nick Klaras selling it to Teodulo "Ted" Gonzalez Sr. in 1997, who moved his El Conquistador restaurant here.
4905-4909 W. Waco Drive
This was built in 1995 and features Barnes & Noble and Canales Furniture. The latter was originally built in 1995 as Circuit City, until it went bankrupt in 2009, and then Big Lots until it liquidated in 2025. The development replaced Holiday Lodge, which had gone under that name since around 1978 (built as a Holiday Inn in the early 1960s).
Fazoli's / 5201 West Waco Drive
Despite continuing to dwindle in numbers (as of this writing, around 139 stores with nine in Texas), Waco holds TWO Fazoli's restaurants (the other is closer to Baylor). This one opened in 2000.
Olive Garden / 5921 W. Waco Drive
"The Olive Garden" as it was known back then, opened in 1990 as an outparcel to Richland Mall.
Richland Mall / 6001 West Waco Drive
The full page I wrote on Richland Mall, as a retail page hosted on Carbon-izer.com, can be found here. It is anchored by Tilt Studio, two Dillard's stores, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Overstock Furniture & Mattress.