Year: 2025

Howdy folks, and welcome back to HHR. Today, we’re taking a look at the final standing Carl’s Jr. location in our area, note “final standing”, not final operating, because this restaurant was short-lived. The restaurant located at 5410 Grand Pkwy, Richmond, TX 77407, only made it about a year and a half before shutting down. Those who remember Carl’s Jr. in Houston might recall that the chain started pretty on top of things. Good food, …

Kroger will soon close its location at 13133 Veterans Memorial Dr, Houston, TX 77014, near Bammel North Houston Road. This store opened in 1981 and was featured in a post here in HHR back in 2023. According to reports online, November 8th will be the final day for this location. Kroger has closed four stores in the Houston area so far this year. Starting with a location in The Woodlands, followed by one in Dickinson, …

The number of simultaneous bookstores under construction is the highest it has been in Houston in years, with six new stores currently planned across the city. The stores consist of an even split of locations by Books-A-Million and Barnes & Noble. This push into the city would more appropriately be labeled a push into the suburbs, as all but one of these stores lack a Houston address. BAM is making its second attempt to expand …

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 …