Month: September 2025

Two Krogers, located at 9325 Katy Fwy, Houston, TX 77024, and 2300 Gessner Rd, Houston, TX 77080, closed earlier than initially expected. The closings were first announced last month and were originally slated to occur on September 30th. According to reader reports, the stores were already relatively low on merchandise by the middle of September. The Katy Freeway location closed last weekend, and the Gessner location closed shortly after. These locations are the third and …

Seven Jack in the Box locations across the Houston area have closed over the past month. The locations were all operated by the same franchisee and may have closed as part of a larger restructuring announced by Jack in the Box earlier this year. The plan aims to close 150-200 locations nationwide, meant to right the ship of a listing burger chain. As reported by Chron.com over a month ago, Jack in the Box has …

Discount retailer Target will open its newest Houston-area store at 12565 Arc Lane, Stafford, TX 77477, on October 19th, 2025. This will be Target’s first new store in the area since the 2022 opening of the Katy Elyson location. The store will be the next large piece for The Grid, the name of the mixed-use project aiming to redevelop the former Texas Instruments campus. The development has opened multiple retail and restaurant spaces, as well …

Update 12:30 PM 9/17: A representative of Salad and Go reached out to me and provided me with the following information. “….41 [Salad and Go] locations are closing across Texas and Oklahoma. The closures include all locations in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio, and a handful of stores in the Dallas metro area and Oklahoma. Salad and Go will permanently close its Houston locations on Friday, September 19th, according to employees of the chain. I …

Bookstore chain Books-A-Million has started work on a new location near Houston. The store will take the place of the former Party City in Fairfield Town Center. This location, along with another Party City in Richmond’s The Shops of Bella Terra, was picked up by BAM! on the heels of their bankruptcy earlier this year. The two stores will be the first expansion the chain has made in Houston since its brief foray into downtown …

Food Town will close its sole location in Sugar Land on September 21st, according to employees at the store. The location at 1130 Eldridge Rd, Sugar Land, TX 77478 dates back to 1992 when it originally opened as a Food Lion. The store would close as Food Lion in 1997, when the chain exited Texas. The following year, Gerland’s Food Fair, which had operated in the former Safeway/AppleTree spot across Eldridge, moved into the former …

The former Sears sign on Shepherd could soon have a bullseye on it, but not for the bulldozers. Big-box discounter Target has filed permits for a new store in the Garden Oaks area. The address at 4000 N Shepherd Dr, Houston, TX 77018 puts the store on the site formerly occupied by a vacant Sears, which was demolished last year. According to plans shared online, the store will sit at the North end of the …

Coffee drive-thru chain Dutch Bros. is making quick progress on its first location inside of 610. Dutch Bros has been in the Houston market since 2021, and their growth has picked up lightning speed compared to similar chains, Scooters, or 7 Brew. Over the past four years, Dutch Bros has worked their way from the suburbs into the Beltway and is now facing the “final frontier,” the inner loop. This new location is at 2301 …