Retail News: Quiktrip headed for NW Houston Jones and 1960 (2024)

It’ll be interesting to see if QuikTrip fares better than the three previous gas stations which used to be at this intersection. The Eagle shopping center once had a Diamond Shamrock where the Boost Mobile outparcel center is now, the Kmart shopping center once had a Mobil/Shell where the Interstate Batteries outparcel center is now, and the land the Black Rifle Coffee is on now used to house a Gulf/Chevron which had a lovely spinning Gulf sign. All three of these are long gone now, the Gulf/Chevron being gone for probably over 30 years now, and all three of these had basic C-stores like one would have expected 1970s/1980s gas stations to have. With that in mind, maybe QT will have that in their favor that the older and closed gas stations did not have in their favor.

Perhaps the biggest advantage QT and the Steeplechase Center have over the other three corners of that intersection is access at what is otherwise a fairly inaccessible intersection from a left turn perspective at least. Those wanting to turn left out of the Steeplechase Center have the option of going behind the shopping center via Bridgedown Dr., which goes past the old Albertsons, and then taking either Steepletop Dr. or Fallbrook to go left. Even in the early 1990s, when the other gas stations were around, traffic was heavy at that intersection and so it was hard to make left turns out of those other three corners at least relative to the options available at the Steeplechase Center. This should help QT a bit, but admittedly, Bridgedown is on the other side of the shopping center so it still isn’t the most convenient thing for a convenience store.

While a lot of the new stores at Steeplechase Center aren’t exactly the types of stores I shop at with any regularity, and I preferred the stores that center had years ago like Weingarten/Safeway, Sav-On, Best Products, Gabby’s BBQ, Wyatt’s Cafeteria, The Black-Eyed Pea, and Godfather’s Pizza, it is nice to see the center reinvent itself as a major discount retail power center featuring early examples of stores like Ollie’s, Shopper’s World, and now QT to the Houston area.

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So excited to finally have one near me! I am a die-hard QT fan lol.

We need more!

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