Tech Ridge Center (Austin, Texas)

Official picture from Regency Centers (source)
From Volume 4.0 (when I first covered the In-N-Out Burger here) to Version 12 (when I removed it entirely), I had covered Tech Ridge Center (not to be confused with The Shops at Tech Ridge at 12901 North Interstate 35) on Carbon-izer's North Interstate 35 in Austin page.

This plaza built its first phase in 2001 with an 86,000 square foot H-E-B (at 500 West Canyon Ridge Drive) but all share the same address, just different suite numbers. There was an outparcel, Golden Wok, with the 500 West Canyon Ridge address, which operated from 2005 to around 2015. The building was demolished and In-N-Out opened in September 2016, though the new In-N-Out had an actual I-35 address (12431 North Interstate 35 North).

Pinstack, an upscale bowling alley, is another major anchor. It sits next to Baylor Scott & White Clinic – Austin Tech Ridge, which was a Petco until sometime in the late 2010s. Pinstack itself was built as an Office Depot in 2010, which only operated for around five years before closing. The building expanded substantially when it became Pinstack.

Mo's Irish Pub - Cypress (Cypress, Texas)

Photo by Jorge Medrano, Google Maps (source)
For a time I featured Mo's Irish Pub (14102 Mueschke) on my Northwest Freeway (Outer Belt) page, but I took it out as of Version 9.0, and in the upcoming Version 10.0, won't even feature Mueschke Road anymore.

In any case, Mo's Irish Pub opened in late 2015 as part of a mini "restaurant row" near Mueschke joining Cracker Barrel and Gringo's Mexican Kitchen and closed somewhat unexpectedly in April 2026. I liked driving past it at night...it looked like a tree permanently covered in Christmas lights, which change colors at night (or at least how it appeared on a Friday night in April back in 2016).

Directly attached to the building is 14106 Mueschke. As of November 2024, the tenants here include (from right to left) Chicago Title, Twinkle Nail Bar, Marco's Pizza, and Sherwin-Williams Paint. Back in March 2016, the strip center existed but was completely empty.

Sunrise Mall (Corpus Christi, Texas)

This is my own picture from June 2007.
I have yet to write up a "full" Sunrise Mall story on Carbon-izer.com but I'd likely be just re-treading what I wrote for Labelscar all those years ago. But since Labelscar is gone, I might be able to refashion it into a full post either way.

Located at 5858 South Padres Island Drive (with the address now used for the self-storage facility that replaced Sears), there's not much I can say at this time other than noting that the Wendy's closed in the late 2000s.

Hopefully before the end of the year I'll fix the page up better.

Link: Sunrise Mall: Director's Cut on Carbon-izer

Hammond Square (Hammond, Louisiana)

From HammondSquare.com. The filename is theirs, not mine. I covered Hammond Square Mall on Carbon-izer.com earlier this year, but now it's time to give it a proper canonized Numbered Exits entry. The original mall was located at 2000 SW Railroad Avenue. The current shopping center is sprawls out a lot more than the old mall used to be. The map below shows what is considered part of the mall per the center's owner Stirling Properties, showing the old (AMC Hammond Palace 10 opened in 1999 as Gulf State Theatres Palace 10) and later the additions (the Academy Sports + Outdoors at 600 C.M. Fagan Drive opened in 2011). JCPenney was a new addition (the original JCPenney moved out of town) while the small Dillard's remained. Initially, the north part of the mall featured Sears and Rite Aid, but when both closed (Sears as part of the failure of Sears Holdings Corporation in the late 2010s, and Rite Aid's pullout from Louisiana around the same time), they were demolished for new tenants including Five Below, HomeGoods, and Marshalls.

I visited the Best Buy here around August 2025 but I don't think I took any pictures of it.

Pete's College Inn (Waco, Texas)

Pete's College Inn could be seen from Interstate 35 (cropped from source)
I first about Pete's College Inn (located at 525 Dutton, not far from the businesses near Ivy Square) from the now-defunct Baylorfans (now part of Sicem365, though sadly the thread in question wasn't archived)¹ which told a story of a bunch of Baylor students watching rats run around the restaurant (it served primarily some sort of chopped steak and mushrooms with punchcards) after hours, to the point of dragging in bleachers and cheering for them.

But beyond that not much is known about it other than the proprietar Pete Dris passing away in 2017 there's much I can say about it.

Newspaper and tax records show that the building was built in the 1930s as a small corner store business (home to a residential house a decade or so prior) and first served as a tailor shop before aforementioned Pete's, then became Chanello's Pizza, a Texas-based pizza delivery chain around 1980 (closed 1985)² and from 1986 to around 1990 Bear Necessities. (Other than bringing to mind the song from The Jungle Book I have almost no information on this. There's a tax listing and being mentioned to buy concert tickets for Lorrie Morgan performing at a local nightclub and that's it). Afterwards, it was Rother's (later known as University Bookstore) until demolition in the late 2000s, so it was on Google Street View.

1. Regarding Hobby Lobby, if I recall, the story was that someone had blocked a drain on a lesser-used part of parking lot (that already tended to flood) to turn it into a "lake", and completely destroyed the parking lot in the process. Don't quote me on this.
2. Chanello's Pizza lives on from a Virginia franchise first opened in 1987.

Loews Midtown Motor Inn (New York, New York)

Source: The Times Union, 11-17-1971
Our first post in New York state (I hope my choice for this date wasn't too tasteless) focuses on 790 Eighth Avenue, opening in 1963 as Loews Midtown Motor Inn by Loews Corporation (best known for its chain of movie theaters)¹ before Loews Corporation decided to convert it to a Ramada Inn franchise in 1972 (the first in Manhattan). From (I'm told) 1995 to 2005, this was a Days Hotel (branded as such) before becoming Hilton Garden Inn, and in the early 2020s closed for renovations (or at least WAS renovated), becoming Kimpton Hotel Theta in 2023 (an IHG hotel). Before renovation, it appears there was lease space at the bottom (a restaurant in the 2010s, then a luggage and electronics store), but that seems to be re-absorbed into the hotel under the Hotel Theta renovation.

Here's a page from the Days Inn directory 2002 (the hotel was also on the cover). I'm not able to find out when Loews divested it entirely. It doesn't look like they own it anymore.

1. The history of Loews is a bit sticky, it was the original owner of MGM Studios, and forced to divest it after the outcome of United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., with Loews eventually being sold to brothers Laurence and Robert Tisch, who already owned a hotel business. While Loews later spun off its namesake movie theaters in 1985 (which eventually merged out of existence), Loews Hotels continues to exist as a subsidiary of Loews Corporation.

Albertsons in Ardmore (Ardmore, Oklahoma)

This view of the new Albertsons isn't unique nor is the best, but it's my own picture. I had to crank up the exposure a bit. (7/2026) Our next stop on my July 2026 vacation as far as supermarkets go is Ardmore, Oklahoma. I didn't intend to make this stop, it was more of a coincidence after I found that Ardmore was directly off I-35. I ended up buying some Gorilla Tape for car maintenance-related issues and some cat toys for a friend I was going to see several states away. I didn't take any pictures of the interior (the size and decor isn't that impressive, unfortunately) but it is the only Albertsons in the state of Oklahoma, having opened in February 2025, the first store in the state after an 18-year absence.

It is located at 1855 12th Avenue NW.

I don't have all the details here, but the way I understand it, it was originally supposed to be a Market Street (and larger) then United backed out, then the Southern Division decided to go ahead with it but with a smaller store than what United had planned (it's only a measly 50,000 square feet, which makes it substantially less impressive than it what it could've been).