Plum Creek Plaza (Lockhart, Texas)

As I'm trying to phase out other pages quickly, this is only from Realnex.
Plum Creek Plaza (1710 S. Colorado Street) is a small strip center in Lockhart, Texas that is signal-controlled to the former Wal-Mart across the street (now government offices) and US-183. It's an unremarkable brick shopping center built in the mid-1980s (until it was painted white at some point between 2019 and 2020) and as of 2022 contains Security Finance (suite 101), PAM Health Rehabilitation Clinic of Lockhart (suite 102, formerly the home of Hibbett Sports in the late 2010s), Anytime Fitness (ste. 105), Beauty Nails & Hair (ste. 106), China Palace (ste. 107), Factory Connection (ste. 112, since closed), and Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant (ste. 114). Also of note is two outlots in front of the building.

There's an Exxon (1706 S. Colorado Street), which goes back to the 1980s as a Diamond Shamrock/Corner Store and was still a Diamond Shamrock as of spring 2008 (it was a Valero by late 2009); unfortunately, Circle K, the successor to Corner Store, decided not to do a full rebrand on this store and pulled out by late 2019. It became an Exxon a few years later. The convenience store is unbranded, as of 2023 you could still see the scar of the old Diamond Shamrock-era Corner Store logo, though it's a little harder to see now due to a repaint. The Verizon store (1904 S. Colorado Street) out front next to the Exxon opened in 2011. From 2003 to around 2010 it was a Jack in the Box restaurant.

There's not too many entries left on the Lockhart post as of this writing and will continue to shrink.

Corner Store at 1624 West Waco Drive (Waco, Texas)

Picture courtesy McLennan CAD
1624 West Waco Drive was originally built as a Payless Gas, a convenience store chain owned by Strasburger Enterprises (the actual gas brand is unknown--they all used different gas brands) in 1985. It's been mentioned at a few of my other pages on Waco at Carbon-izer (at 1020 N. Loop 340 and at 901 South 5th Street). I never knew Payless Gas as Strasburger Enterprises sold the entire 64-store chain to Diamond Shamrock in 1991¹, whereupon they converted to Corner Store, Diamond Shamrock's in-house store brand. When Diamond Shamrock stores started to be converted to Valero around the mid-2000s Corner Store was their preferred brand (winning out over Stop-N-Go in Houston, which they also owned) and ultimately spun off Corner Store as CST Brands, though despite a promising start was purchased by Circle K (all of this happened within a decade or so). Unfortunately this Corner Store never got to see Circle K. In 2006, Valero sold the store to an independent (just labeled as "Food Mart") but within a few years was picked up and remodeled as Chevron with a new sign (the brick base for the old sign still stood) and a coat of paint. Within a decade this too was abandoned and in 2020 remodeled as "Be'ur Mart" with its own mascot on the signage (that looks like it was stolen from somewhere). Nevertheless, the Payless Gas legacy still exists in Waco, carrying on as Circle K.

1. It seems that not ALL of the Payless Gas stores were sold, and Strasburger Enterprises would later go back to convenience store in the mid-1990s with Quix. These were sold to 7-Eleven in 2012.