Year: 2025

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 …

The grand opening of Houston’s newest Portillo’s came and went relatively quietly this week. The restaurant, located at 12419 Southwest Fwy, Stafford, TX 77477, opened Tuesday, August 26th, and is the fifth Houston-area location. Portillo’s hit the Houston market just about 11 months ago, with the opening of their Aliana Shopping Center location in Richmond. With quick momentum, work on four other stores began, and by January, the Willowbrook and Katy locations had opened, with …

Editor’s Note: Photos in today’s post come from HHR Reader Michael Shutika, thanks! Howdy folks, and welcome back to HHR. Today we’re taking a look at a recently exposed retail remnant, while also learning a bit about the tenant. The building in question is located at 18980 Gulf Fwy, Friendswood, TX 77546 just outside of Baybrook Mall, and it started off life as a Krause’s Sofa Factory location. To begin with a little history, Krause’s …

Food Town is closing a store after recently opening a new location in Santa Fe. HHR confirmed with store personnel that the chain plans to shut the location at 1700 Decker Dr, Baytown, TX 77520 by October 26th, making this the third location to close in 2025. The store occupies a large portion of a massive 83,000 sq ft structure, which initially housed a Globe Discount City. Globe operated out of the building from 1969 …

Joe V’s Smart Shop’s newest location opens this morning at 10241 North Freeway, Houston, TX 77037. Located at the corner of West and I-45, Joe V’s takes the space most recently occupied by Fry’s Electronics. The grocery store is the low-cost banner of HEB and operates with a more limited selection than a traditional HEB store at a lower price point. Before this location, HEB had planned for a Joe V’s in East Aldine, but …

Meyerland will lose a grocery store this weekend when Randalls closes its doors at 4800 W Bellfort Ave, Houston, TX 77035. Randalls has quite a history in the area. They first arrived in 1961 via the original incarnation of Randalls. The store located at 10810 S Post Oak Rd, Houston, TX 77035 was part of the Super Value co-op and had initially been run by Belden’s. When Belden’s dropped, the location, Randalls picked it up as …

Panera Bread now has 10 fewer locations across Houston after EYM Cafe, a franchisee, filed for bankruptcy last week. EYM Cafe was founded in 2019. EYM started with 18 locations across Houston, Lubbock, and Midland, expanding to Abilene and Amarillo before collapsing. The drama began in February when EYM started falling behind on payments to Panera and suppliers. This prompted intervention by Panera, which concluded the stores were not being run to its standards, and …

Kroger has confirmed that it is closing two Houston locations by September 30th. The locations are 9325 Katy Fwy, Houston, TX 77024, and 2300 Gessner Rd, Houston, TX 77080, which are within about 3 miles of each other and have a similar shared heritage. The Kroger of the Villages (Katy Freeway) originally opened as a Safeway back in 1974, and the Gessner at Hammerly location opened in 1970, as one of the first Safeways in …