Author: Mike

Japanese-based Round One Corporation has been on an arcade-building spree in American Malls lately, and soon, Humble will join Arlington and Grapevine as the third Texas city to host one of their arcades. The new Round1 locations will be at Deerbrook Mall in Humble and Willowbrook Mall in Houston. The Deerbrook location will be the smaller of the two, taking up the space formerly occupied by Palais Royal in that mall. The Willowbrook location will …

Howdy folks, and welcome back to Houston Historic Retail. Today, we’re checking out a Food Town at 20851 FM 1485, New Caney, TX 77357, way up on the Northeast side of town. This store, like a few other Food Town locations featured on HHR, originally started out as an Albertson’s. In general, I tend to hold a Food Town conversion of an Albertsons in pretty high regard, and this location is no different! First, though, …

The past few months have been a wild ride for anyone following along as Big Lots’ bankruptcy has dragged on. The first signs of major trouble came in 2023 when Big Lots began shutting down locations around Houston. By September of 2024, the company announced they were filing for Bankruptcy with plans to sell to Nexus Capital. While this was not a best-case scenario for the ailing discount retailer, it did seem like it would …