Lowe's at the North Loop (Houston, Texas)

The gang's all here in this early 2020s aerial.
The disassembly of North Loop Entries continues (and I should note that the previously and recently covered Taco Cabana has closed down). The image above shows the current configuration of Lowe's and adjacent businesses (not including the two office buildings). It appears that there was an apartment complex or two prior to Lowe's (1521 N. Loop West) opening in 2000, unfortunately at press time we couldn't research those.

The CVS (1525 N. Loop West) replaced a Shell station in 2013 (the Shell station was not accessible from the adjacent parking lots). The Murphy Express (1527 N. Loop West) was built around 2010-2011 in the Lowe's parking lot proper. The white-patched parking lot was redone in 2017, I'm not sure why it's there.

South First Square (Austin, Texas)

From this PDF
I don't have a lot of information on this one today. The grocery store at 611 West Ben White Boulevard was A&P when it first opened in 1966. The grocery store later changed hands to locally-based Foodland, which sold in 1996 to Cutrer's City Market, which by 2007 was simply City Market. From what I can find City Market sold to Arlan's Market, which closed this location shortly after, reopening in 2013 as Mi Rancho Meat Market. In late 2015 or early 2016 it was rebadged as the current name. Sharing the address and building is a restaurant called Bamboo Garden, this was Godfather's Pizza in the 1980s, and I'm not sure of the building out front. It looks like it was originally a restaurant.

While it's not connected to the shopping center anymore (poles were inserted into the concrete), the 7-Eleven (601 W. Ben White) has been here since the 1986 (though it likely originally had Citgo as a gas brand).

King Arthur's Castle (Grapevine, Texas)

1985 ad, source.
I'd like to thank Anonymous in Houston for cluing me into this one, a unique gas station with expanded food offerings (salads, barbecue, baked potatoes...but no fried chicken) that opened in 1985 and operated into the early 2000s and torn down soon after. The address of this place was 920 E. Northwest Highway, which is used by a Starbucks opened in 2007; however, the Starbucks occupied the plot of land just west of King Arthur's Castle.

As you can see below in this Google Earth aerial from 2001 the gas station had a turret on top of it as well as some other small signs in front of it; however, I'm not sure what, if any gas brand it offered.

Temple Mall (Temple, Texas)

The mall is mostly empty these days.
Located at 3111 S. 31st Street; while not on the H.K. Dodgen Loop list that we're trying to dismantle, I'd like to take time to cover another mall, Temple Mall. This is going to be a short one as I took pictures and did a deep dive (well, from what I could with the resources) which you can see here.

The Catch Conroe (Conroe, Texas)

Photo from Google Maps, Ruven Astrade 2121 West Davis Street (originally covered at this page) was originally built as a Taco Bueno, but I never saw much of Taco Bueno on childhood trips to Louisiana as it only opened in 2007 but since it only closed in 2012 after about five years in operation it wasn't long for this world anyway.

By early 2013 it was operating as a new location of Einstein Bros. Bagels (#3604). Unfortunately Einstein Bros. was a bigger bust than Taco Bueno was and closed in February 2015 with other stores nationwide. Soon afterward it reopened as The Catch, a regional seafood restaurant chain and still operates to this day.

Ritter Hardware Beaumont (Beaumont, Texas)

Picture from Google Maps, from Max Morgan, 2016
Another one to add to the growing collection of entries on Highway 105 is Ritter Hardware. Opened July 2009 from a news article that I have since lost (though the company's website confirms it is 2009), the large store (for an independent) is located a ways off its address, 7420 Highway 105, and is off Windermere Parkway (Home Center Drive never did develop). Somewhere around the mid-2010s they ditched their original association with Ace Hardware and by the early 2020s remerchandised to remove flooring (which they previously had advertised).

dd's Discounts On Antoine (Houston, Texas)

Google Maps Street View crop. If you look closely there's ridged concrete, very similar to old Kmart stores.
Spinning off another Antoine Drive entry, this particular address (8077 Antoine Drive) started out as Eagle Discount Supermarket (see Houston Historic Retail) before it closed in 1985. It was later taken over by Houston independent Foodarama before it moved in 2006 to the former Randalls at 7320 Antoine Drive, which Houston Historic Retail has covered in more detail. In 2011 it became DD's Discounts.

The rest of the shopping center doesn't have much going for it (beauty supply, daycare, FOUR cheap cell phone stores). The TitleMax Title Loans in the parking lot (8197 Antoine Drive) suggests a fast food past (most TitleMax places are in fact former fast food restaurants) but this one appears to have been a State Farm office back in the 1980s, and upon closer inspection the way the windows are built, and no drive-through/convenient parking seems to confirm the case.