Originally, this page was just about Woodway Drive between Speegleville Road and Loop 340/Highway 6, and for the most part is a divided, limited-access avenue with frontage roads. I wouldn't call it a "freeway" per se because of its relatively low speed limit and antiquated exit/entrance geometry, but it is what it is. I started writing about this page on Wikimapia (much like others) in 2012, which helped provide a backbone for this current page, and as a result Version 1.0 was enormous with about 50 entries, though due to some refocusing with Version 3.0 didn't expand much. Version 4.0 changed the layout again because the numbering of Woodway Drive actually connected to the numbering of Franklin Avenue. Additionally, because Franklin Avenue is one way eastbound, it makes more sense to count down in this page instead of counting up. The additions are listed from McGregor westward.

Version 4.0 flips the format and reworks it to add Franklin. Because only a few addresses didn't work, there are more additions than removals. Some of the imports were also updated, notably H-E-B plus! and Home Zone Furniture. Minor touch-ups not listed.

Additions: 5J Venue, Cedar Chest Antique Mall, Vossloh Fastening Systems, Central Presbyterian Church, Grace Gardens Funeral Home & Crematorium, United Rentals, Big Brand Tire & Service, Furniture Row, DesignCo, The "Out" House, Bob Mills Furniture, McCoy's Building Supply, La Fiesta Restaurant & Cantina, CTWP, Common Grounds, Jack-of-all-Trades Personnel Services, La Herradura Western Wear, and Union Hall
Imports from Franklin Avenue and New Road: Home Zone Furniture, 4500 Franklin Avenue (former Outback Steakhouse), McDonald's, Walmart, Chick-fil-A, and LongHorn Steakhouse
Imports from Hewitt Drive: H-E-B plus!
Imports from stand-alone page: Jorge's Cantina (former Tony Roma's)
Updates: Woodway United Methodist Church, PNC Bank, Walgreens, Central National Bank, 8100 Woodway Drive (previously titled as "Union Grove"), 7200 Woodway Drive (the old movie theater), 6612 Woodway Drive, 6500 Woodway Drive (previously titled as "Nightlight Donuts & Coffee"), and Hornet Signs
Removals: Bowlero Waco, Hill Country Paints, The Bear Mountain, Mardel Christian & Education, Car Mel Apartments, and Exxon (at North 12th)

WINDSOR ROAD to OLD LORENA ROAD / OLD SPEEGLEVILLE ROAD

5J Venue / 31727 US Highway 84
This is so far west Google puts it as 31727 E. McGregor Drive (but it's not). This converted ranch shed was briefly 5J Dance Hall in the early 2020s but I guess it couldn't keep constant hours.

Cedar Chest Antique Mall / 31707 US-84
This large (not overly large, but bigger than a typical storefront) antique mall has smaller sublet sections, including "Fox's Treats & Eats" inside.

Vossloh Fastening Systems / 29831 W. Highway 84
In the early 2010s this was a vacant building, with the last tenant being Romark Logistics USA. Vossloh moved in sometime around the mid-2010s.

29225 West Highway 84
This property has a self-storage unit center in the back (Highway 84 Storage) and a building in the front serving as retail space (currently, as of this writing, "Junque Amore"; in the mid-2010s the building hosted a flooring store).

Exxon / 27432 West Highway 84
As of the 2010s, this gas station appeared to have a fairly robust food service operation, including a large sign on the store offering sandwiches and hamburgers, a "Sub Express" sign on the building AND on the roadside sign, and a "Bellarico's" pizza sign on the roadside signage as well. Sometime between 2018 and 2021 it became an Exxon, and the Bellarico's sign disappeared with the replacement of one of the signs. Otherwise, despite replacing Shell's yellow décor on the outside with Exxon's, the station looks practically identical.

Google indicates this is also known as "McGregor Country Market".

Chevron / 27443 West Highway 84
The convenience store at this Chevron gas station is Harris Creek Grocery, and has been operating since 1986.

OLD LORENA ROAD / SPEEGLEVILLE ROAD to HEWITT DRIVE

Valero / 25930 West Hwy. 84
This Valero (initially a large Corner Store, by 2019 it was a Circle K) opened around March 2015. It includes a Subway, a car wash, and even a large diesel area designed for trucks. It also sells E-85 gas.

Woodway United Methodist Church / 21000 Woodway Drive
The Woodway Drive name begins east of Cloice Creek, with this church being one of the first addresses, having been here since 2006. Just east of here is the first outlet directly onto Woodway Drive, Wickson Road and Hannah Hill Road (Wickson originally could go across the road, but this has been cut sometime since the late 1990s or early 2000s). To the west is where Woodway Drive goes over Cloice Creek, and a turnaround road goes for the frontage roads, with two-way frontage roads going beyond it, and the westbound frontage road ending by essentially merging with westbound Woodway (and the other lane being an exit from Woodway). These two way frontage roads west of Cloice Creek were in place since the early 1960s all the way until the late 2010s when construction on extending the freeway and building an overpass for Speegleville Road was done.

Midway Independent School District / 13885 Woodway Drive
Midway ISD made its new home offices here around 2011. A long driveway connects it back to Ritchie Road.

The Outlook at Bosque Ridge / 13701 Woodway Drive
New development spanning several buildings with restaurants and shops.

Westview Nursery & Landscape / 10000 Woodway Drive
This garden center has a long-standing location on Valley Mills Road but this particular location opened in 1985.

Central Presbyterian Church / 9191 Woodway Drive
This church is easy to miss...its parking and access is entirely off Sharron Drive.

PNC Bank / 9103 Woodway Drive
This small but modern-looking bank was completed sometime around 2006-2007, not long after Walgreens was built as BBVA Compass. As of late 2019, it was STILL branded as such even after BBVA dropped the Compass name. By October 2021 it had been rebranded as PNC Bank, so if it ever did get BBVA signage, it was brief.

Walgreens / 9101 Woodway Drive
The entire block stretching from Woodway to Bryce Drive and from Walgreens to 9110 Jordan was where a school was prior to fall 2003 and demolished soon after. I believed this to be Midway High School and it looks like it might've been so originally or temporarily but even as early as 1982 this was Midway Junior High School and Midway Middle School. Either way, the building predated 1970 and the Walgreens here was first in the redeveloped space (over the years this has filled out but still about 30% empty, even over 20 years later after demolition) and opened in August 2005. I believe Midway High School had this address...

H-E-B plus! / 9100 Woodway Drive

Despite the Woodway address here, I've put the H-E-B Plus on this page since it replaced an H-E-B store at 105 Hewitt Drive, dating back to 1991, and the new H-E-B Plus still faces Hewitt. In 2004, the 1991 store was demolished for the new "H-E-B plus!" format.

The new brand of H-E-B store was one of only three launched in 2004 and in addition to the large 100k+ square feet format featured a rather extensive non-food selection (clothing, albeit limited; electronics; toys). The original smaller H-E-B was turned into parking for the new H-E-B, with the older parking being partially turned into a gas station and car wash. The photo above is courtesy MCAD taken within a year of its opening (just a preview--see the bigger version here). Someday I'll add the original store directory to this site.

CVS/pharmacy / 9001 Woodway Drive
This ubiquitous drugstore chain store was built in 1998 as an Eckerd drug store, which relocated here in July 1998 from a location in Meadowlake Center (see Loop 340 page). It converted to CVS in summer 2004 when most of its stores were sold to CVS.

HEWITT DRIVE to HIGHWAY 6 WEST / WEST LOOP 340

Wells Fargo / 8900 Woodway Drive

Many years ago, this was home to a 7-Eleven and followed the fate of other the stores in the area, sold to Circle K in 1988 and around 1999 sold to Skinny's. While the Skinny's gained a Fina affiliation in the 2000s, it was, as of 2001, self-branded. (Picture courtesy MCAD).

KWKT-TV / 8803 Woodway Drive
This is the home to a local news station and FOX affiliate. According to Wikipedia, KWKT has been operational since 1988, but MCAD indicates the television studio dates back to 1979. Later research showed that this was originally the home of Marathon Metallic Building Company, with KWKT-TV leasing the old headquarters for Bush Building Corporation and launching January 1988.

Central National Bank / 8320 Woodway Drive
While it insists on the address of 8320 US-84, this building was built in 1976 and has been the same bank since it was built.

Grace Gardens Funeral Home & Crematorium / 8220 Woodway Drive
This funeral home first opened around 2008-2009. There was initially no access from Woodway Drive's frontage roads, just Woodhew Drive, though the construction of Union Grove (see next entry) did connect to theirs.

8100 Woodway Drive As of 2007 this was Tri-Supply Showroom and by 2015 had changed hands to The Backyard & Patio Store. In the early 2020s it was renovated into Union Grove (a food hall) as a suburban companion to Union Hall in downtown Waco but in February 2026 announced its closure.

Colony Apartments / 8014 Woodway Drive
These apartments were originally built in the mid-1980s and have 224 units.

Woodway Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center / 7801 Woodway Drive
This was built as Regent Care Center of Woodway in 2001 and changed hands between 2022 and 2025.

7608 Woodway Drive
This used to be Davis Coffee Company, a local Waco wholesale coffee company that has been around since at least the 1950s (probably not at this location). Around the mid-to-late 2010s it quietly closed, and in 2019, the building was renovated to include Slow Rise Slice House (a pizza restaurant), Common Grounds (a branch of a coffeehouse near Baylor), and Native Sons Coffee Roasters (local coffee roasting company).

7407 Woodway Drive
Advertised as "Furniture Center and Casual Shop", and two distinct buildings and shops, "Furniture Center" legally has the address of 7405 Woodway, but both stores have been operating together as one entity since at least 1990.

Capital Title / 7401 Woodway Drive
This house-like office building replaced a 1950s-era gas station (1956), living most of its life as Mobil (though briefly received BP brands as late as 2007), but in its sunset years had become "A & JEH Food Mart", a convenience store that no longer sold gas. A & JEH was completely demolished sometime in late 2013, with a new foundation poured by October 2014. The A & JEH branding (on a sign distinctly shaped like a Mobil sign) remained up even into late 2014. When it was rebuilt it housed Interim HealthCare of Waco (hospice/home health agency) and its current tenant uses the very same sign.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the convenience store here was TETCO, a brand that by the early 2010s would be acquired by 7-Eleven.

Chevron / 7325 Woodway Drive
This was a Texaco in the mid-1990s to around 2003 when it was converted to Shell. The Shell mysteriously closed up for a few years in 2013 and re-opened again for a few more years until becoming a Chevron in 2015. The actual station dates back to 1973.

Sunbelt Rentals / 7011 Woodway Drive
In 1999, NationsRent of Texas built here, and in 2006 it was acquired by Sunbelt Rentals, which rebranded it by fall 2007 with its distinctive green-colored building and construction equipment rentals.

Motel 6 / 7007 Woodway Drive
Tax records indicate this was a Ramada Inn originally (2000 to no later than 2007), then it was a Travelodge from c. 2007 to around 2011-2012. In 2019, it became "Woodway Inn" but it has since reverted to Motel 6. Interestingly, I seem to remember one of the hotels on the south side, either 6624 Woodway (or possibly even 6908 Woodway) being known as "Woodway Inn & Suites" briefly.

7200 Woodway Drive
Movie theater that operated from 1997 to 2023. See the CinemaTreasures page. It is to become a multi-purpose interior sports complex with a basketball gymnasium, weight rooms, and batting cages.

Hillcrest Dental Care / 7124 Woodway Drive
This dental clinic looks like a restaurant, because it was. It opened in 2006 as a RibCrib (Rib Crib) but closed two years later. The building was purchased in 2010 and converted into a dental practice. A bit more on RibCrib (including a picture of it when it was still a RibCrib) can be seen here on a page I wrote previously about it.

Londonderry Plaza / 7003 Woodway Drive
This medical office center (along with its sister building 7005 Woodway) were converted warehouses.

United Rentals / 6935 Woodway Drive
Much like the College Station location, this United Rentals location was an RSC Equipment Rental until around 2013 after United bought the parent company.

6931 Woodway Drive
From 2005 to at least through 2019, the front half of this building was occupied by Med-Equip, a medical equipment store. Med-Equip moved to a new location later (and had moved from a smaller location before). In the early 2020s this was Walker Sleep (furniture and mattresses) and by August 2023 had become Paradise Spas & Outdoor Living (which became Atlas Spas & Swim Spas within a year).

Darr Equipment Co. / 6917 Woodway Drive
Heavy machinery (inc. CAT) rentals. In the late 1980s to the mid-2000s it was Texas Kenworth but at some point changed hands to CAT. Officially, this was around 2012, but the Darr name has been on the building at least since 2008.

Lockbox Self Storage / 6809 Woodway Drive
This self-storage center has been here for over three decades.

6807 Woodway Drive
According to records, this small office building (from the mid-1980s) has leased to Texas Document Solutions.

Advanced Carpet / 6805 Woodway Drive
Advanced Carpet (flooring shop, more than just carpet) has been here since 1989. Around 2015, it replaced its large green awning with bold lettering for a more modern but less noticeable facade.

The Gilded Lily / 6803 Woodway Drive
Since late 2016, this antique store has operated in a space that was, in the early 2010s the home to "Window World" (which has since moved across to the other side of the highway).

Waco Winnelson / 6801 Woodway Drive
Until the mid-2010s, this long-running plumbing supply business (a Winnelson dealership) had a nasty decades-old sign (it has been in business since 1992 though the structure indicated far longer) that read "WINNELSON PLUMBING SUPPLY" (or "WINNELSON PLUMB INGSUPPLY", from the east) but it received a repaint and new signage, with the lower section now advertising the "Bath & Kitchen Idea Center".

Comfort Inn & Suites / 6808 Woodway Drive
This hotel was built in 2004 as a Holiday Inn Express. In 2015, the hotel changed brands to Best Western Plus. In 2025 it was rebranded to a Comfort Inn & Suites.

Woodway Medical Plaza / 6101 Woodway Drive
Two story office building designed for medical tenants, part of the Providence Healthcare network (later Ascension after a merger). It was all ready to go by early 2013 (though some sources say 2014). It features (as of 3/22) Ascension Medical Group Providence at Woodway (#200) and Plaza Pharmacy (#100). This replaced a veterinarian office (simply called "Animal Clinic" at 6201 Woodway (1991-2011) and Wales Industrial Service (6101). WIS had been operational since 1978.

Super 8 / 6624 Woodway Drive
This was built in 1995 as a Best Western according to records. It has been a Super 8 since at least 2008.

6612 Woodway Drive
This vacant building was once the home of C&M Outdoor Power Equipment (legally C & M Air Cooled Engine Inc.), which operated from 1995 to late 2018. It sold lawnmowers and other equipment. By 2023 it had been renovated into a strip mall building with Old Corner Drug (Building A Suite 1), a vacancy, and Cortny + Co. Salon (Building A Suite 3). I'm not sure what occupies Building B in the back.

Big Brand Tire & Service / 6600 Woodway Drive
Much like in my General Bruce Drive page, this was previously Austin-based Tires To You. In 2024, it was acquired and rebranded by early 2025.

6500 Woodway Drive
Nightlight Donuts & Coffee was built in the early 2020s as a brick-and-mortar version of a food truck; however, it closed after 10/31/2025.

Valero / 6400 Woodway Drive

The even numbered addresses are a bit out of order, this is actually at Loop 340. The gas station opened in early 2015 as Corner Store to replace an older Valero (and an abandoned building, Hartley Motor Supply). Both the old Valero and the new Valero were branded as "Corner Store", Valero's convenience store brand (until Corner Store converted to Circle K in the late 2010s, anyway). This used to be a Diamond Shamrock, but was rebranded as a Valero by early 2007. The picture is of its original incarnation (but I believe it started out as Payless Gas). As for Hartley Motor Supply, it had didn't have a Woodway address, but it looked much nicer as Pine Ridge. (Pictures courtesy MCAD).

Luigi's Italian Restaurant / 6025 Woodway Drive
Formerly located in McGregor, Luigi's built anew here and opened in August 2021. Prior this, it was a vacant lot previously occupied by Kendrick Tire & Auto Repair Center. While it was closed and torn down in 2015, the last two years of its life had updated road signage indicating that it was a "NAPA AutoCare Center" franchise, and that signage remained several years after its demolition.

La Quinta Inn & Suites / 6003 Woodway Drive
This hotel was constructed in 2009.

Hornet Signs / 5999 Woodway Drive
This was Discount Floors Superstore from 2006 up until sometime in 2012. In December 2012, Hornet Signs opened and within a year (September 2013) caused a number of ruffled feathers on social medias with a decal for truck hatches that appeared to be, at first glance, a kidnapped woman in the back of a truck. It wasn't quite the publicity they were hoping for, but they lived through the ordeal.

Meanwhile, Discount Floors along with a few sister businesses (The Top Shoppe, Goldstone Marble & Granite) were replaced by Design Superstore on Franklin Avenue (see 5506).

Heat Wave Custom Window Tinting / 5925 Woodway Drive
This business opened in late 2013 and was previously abandoned for years. Below the current signage says "Custom Costumes Rental Shop" (with an arrow), this was at 6618 Old McGregor Road (though appears to have since closed).

Extended Stay America / 5903 Woodway Drive
Home of "Classic Tint USA" from 1989 to 1994. Since 2001, it has been an Extended Stay America.

American Bank / 5901 Woodway Drive
This bank building was built in 1982 originally and rebuilt in 2019. It has been American Bank for years (possibly even dating back to the 1980s).

Fairfield Inn & Suites / 5805 Woodway Drive
This says "Fairfield Inn by Marriott" on the side of the hotel. I stayed at this hotel back sometime in 2005. According to later research, the hotel (website here) was opened in 1995.

7-Eleven / 5801 Woodway Drive
Located at the northwest corner of the US-84 intersection, this was a Kettle restaurants for years, until it abruptly closed in fall 2010. Within two years, the site was torn down and it was operating as a 7-Eleven convenience store and gas station, the first in Waco since 1988. I remember getting really excited about this one, as 7-Eleven stores were extinct in my neck of the woods (including Houston) and I got to get a real Slurpee for the first time in a few years (previously I had gotten one in Florida), and I still think they taste better than the stock "ICEE" drink. As 7-Eleven stores have gotten much more common thanks to the whole Stripes merger (along with other acquisitions), it's not worth the extra stop but it was neat when it first opened.

HIGHWAY 6 WEST / WEST LOOP 340 to NORTH VALLEY MILLS DRIVE

Furniture Row / 6000 Franklin Avenue

Originally, this was Payless Cashways (in College Station, it did business as Furrow and the chain operated Houston locations until the late 1990s). I've attached a bit about its opening in May 1975 just so you can see what it looked like when it opened (text is too small for non-subscribers). There was a large lumberyard in the back which was initially served via rail spur (the rail spur was closed and dismantled WELL before the store closed) but the whole chain went under in November 2001. In 2003, the building was expanded and reopened as Furniture Row, with four connecting stores-within-a-store, Sofa Mart, Denver Mattress, Bedroom Expressions, and Oak Express, though between 2016 and 2018 these just became Furniture Row Living, Denver Mattress, Furniture Row Bedroom, and Furniture Row Dining. Furniture Row never did utilize the lumberyard of Furrow, and it sits vacant to this day. * MCAD picture fix

DesignCo / 5506 Franklin Avenue
This opened in fall 2012 to replace the closed Patriot Furniture (2000-2011), featuring Discount Floors Superstore and others inside (see 5999 Woodway) and rebranded as DesignCo in the early 2020s.

The "Out" House / 5500 Franklin Ave.
Newspaper articles indicate a residence was here before it was physically relocated in the 1960s, then was established as Westview Mobile Home Park in the mid-1970s before a warehouse was built in the early 1980s. In June 1987, The "Out" House opened. An opening ad shows that they originally retailed in firearms and archery, but today they seem to mostly focus on archery. The outside of the building looks like it hasn't been touched since 1987.

Bob Mills Furniture / 5400 Franklin Avenue
This building was opened in 1980 as Weberg Furniture, shortly after Karotkin's was purchased by Weberg Furniture in 1978 and rebranded. In 1996, Weberg Furniture itself was purchased and rebranded by Rhodes. Around this time, Rhodes was purchased by Heilig-Meyers, which rebranded the store again in 1997 as RoomStore Furniture. Despite RoomStore spinning off from the bankrupt Heilig-Meyers in 2005, it went under itself in 2012, ending the 22-year operation. Bob Mills Furniture picked up the building and opened in 2013.

Home Zone Furniture / 4800 Franklin Avenue
Part of Franklin Village (see 2024 lease plan), this started out as Service Merchandise in 1997. Today, The Home Zone store has the red Service Merchandise arches out front (which sadly I don't have a picture of, much less a night shot), but it's unknown to why Service Merchandise left Richland Mall in 1997, maybe it was a lease issue, maybe the old Wilson's was too large (just a bit). The Richland Mall space was 65,000 square feet while their new Franklin Village digs were 50,000 square feet. Two years later when Service Merchandise closed the store during bankruptcy, it became home to Goody's Family Clothing in November 1999 (later that year) which painted the arches blue until the chain went under in 2008. Lack's Furniture moved in from their home at the old Wal-Mart at North Loop 340 and I-35, with their ribbon cutting October 30, 2010. Less than a month later the chain announced it would be going of business and the store liquidated by the end of the year. After this it was replaced by Home Zone, another furniture store.

PetSmart / 4600 Franklin Avenue
Unlike its larger neighbor, no drama here—PetSmart has been here since 1997. It shares the address with smaller stores, including Plato's Closet, Once Upon A Child, and Our Breakfast Place. Our Breakfast Place, at suite 100, was a franchised location of The Egg & I from 2012 to the late 2010s, and once home to Pier 1 Imports (1997-2005).

4500 Franklin Avenue
This former Outback Steakhouse operated from December 1996 to October 2025.

McDonald's / 4330 Franklin Avenue

The McDonald's restaurant (4330 Franklin Avenue) opened in 1998 and renovated in 2017. This shows the original 1998 exterior, which shows the original restaurant and the outside playscape (demolished with the remodel). The picture is courtesy MCAD, which took this picture in November 2003.

Walmart / 4320 Franklin Avenue
This Walmart opened as a Wal-Mart Supercenter in March 1998, replacing a smaller regular Wal-Mart located on North Valley Mills (see Valley Mills page) not too far away.

Chick-fil-A / 4310 Franklin Avenue
This Chick-fil-A has been here since 1999 but it's since been modified for their current double drive-through prototype.

LongHorn Steakhouse / 4300 Franklin Avenue

LongHorn Steakhouse opened in early 2014 on the site of (it was a total rebuild) a former TGI Friday's that operated from 1998 to 2009. After TGI Friday's closed it served as another restaurant, Tokyo Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi, which operated from fall 2010 to fall 2013.

The picture above depicts TGI Friday's after its circa 2005 remodel, the original 1998 restaurant looked substantially different.

McCoy's Building Supply / 4236 Franklin Avenue
This opened in 1983. A railroad spur in a nearby alley (tracks are still visible today) appeared to service the store, with aerial photography suggesting this was in use as late as 2003.

Jorge's Cantina / 4225 Franklin Avenue

The rib restaurant Tony Roma's has certainly struggled over the years with less than two dozen locations left in the United States. Back when the chain was still doing relatively well (with at least a dozen locations in Texas alone), a Tony Roma's opened off of Franklin Avenue in spring 2000 as the area continued to gain chain restaurants. Tony Roma's closed in 2004 as the chain crumbled (the Dallas stores were closed around this time) and the building changed hands. In early 2006 it got a replacement tenant in the form of the expanding Buffalo Wild Wings, and for over a decade, the restaurant stuck around on the Franklin Avenue corridor. The lease for Buffalo Wild Wings expired at the end of 2016 but they anticipated it and closed a few months early to make sure that the new 2312 West Loop 340 location opened without a hitch. From August 2018 to January 2023 it was the home of El Paso Mexican Grill, and reopened as Jorge's Cantina, spin-off of local Waco restaurant George's, in June 2024. The picture above is courtesy MCAD, see the full version here.

NORTH VALLEY MILLS DRIVE to SOUTH 17TH STREET

La Fiesta Restaurant & Cantina / 3815 Franklin Avenue
I had always wondered what this used to be, turns out it was built new as this restaurant back in 1972 (moved from 18th and Washington).

CTWP / 3730 Franklin Avenue
Street View shows CTWP being here at least as of 2007 but in 1983 this was Lone Star Tavern.

Common Grounds / 3407 Franklin Avenue
Waco-based coffeeshop Common Grounds opened here in 2024. From 1971 to 1987 this was a classic A-frame Whataburger with its longer, extended canopy, though spent much of the next thirty years or so as a used car lot.

Jack-of-all-Trades Personnel Services / 2701 Franklin Avenue
Also known as "Joat", this temp/staffing agency was once the home of YWCA (though not originally) until around 1996, which explains the filled-in swimming pool next to it.

SOUTH 17TH STREET to SOUTH M.L.K. JR. BLVD.

La Herradura Western Wear / 1807 Franklin Avenue
This store appears to have opened in 2025, and my notes say it was Uncle Dan's BBQ in 1983. Regardless, the building seems to have undergone many changes in hand over the last 15 years or so.

Union Hall / 720 Franklin Avenue
This food hall opened January 2020 and was where Roni's Mac Bar started, but it's not clear how it fits in with "Urban Eatery" next door or what the building originally was.

Franklin Avenue becomes four way again at South 4th Street, and becomes Taylor Street beyond South M.L.K. Jr. Street, where the numbering resets. There's two Taylor Street segments that are cut off from each other by I-35, whereas the actual thoroughfare curves north as Clifton Street. At Faulkner Lane, Clifton splits off and it continues north as Gholson Road, which becomes FM 933 as it winds toward Gholson, Texas, and continues north all the way towards Whitney.