Among the retail establishments off of Texas Avenue is Texas Avenue Crossing (a name not seen on signage, by the way) is also the only strip center for miles around with rooftop parking. Texas Avenue Crossing is the redone version of a previous shopping center called Redmond Terrace Shopping Center, built in 1964 at Jersey and Texas Avenue on the site of a dairy farm. Major stores were Gibson's discount store, Ben Franklin five and ten, Brookshire Brothers, and a post office. All of these were housed under a continuous "squiggly roof" (not unlike the defunct discount store The Treasury). As most of the Gibson's were franchised operations (a few Dallas stores even had supermarket departments), it ultimately was their undoing as franchisees like Howard Brothers and Pamida pulled out. The Gibson's here was quite small (clocking in at around 30,000 square feet INCLUDING the garden center) but did include a pharmacy despite its size. It liquidated in December 1982 and in 1983 was replaced with Academy. The Brookshire Brothers space was sold to Piggly Wiggly in 1973 (the store was small even by Brookshire Brothers' standards, much smaller than Navasota's or Hearne's Brookshire Brothers), though Brookshire Brothers did get another chance in College Station when it opened a new store on George Bush Drive West many years later. The post office was replaced with Joe's Used Books.
Jason's Deli (a Stacy's Furniture for a time, by address) would be on the far right of the center. Other stores included Burdett & Son's and Loupot's, as well as a mattress/furniture liquidator. Here's a picture of Burdett & Son's, in which you can see the original figuration as well.
Here's the directory listings for what the center was like as Redmond Terrace circa 1998.
1400 - Stand-alone Zip'N gas station (Shell) at the corner of George Bush (Jersey) and Texas Avenue. The earliest reference I can find May have replaced an older gas station, only 1,000 square feet. This went first around 2002 with little more than some remains in a raised section of concrete to show that something was here. It looks like it was originally an Amoco and became a Shell Zip'N in the late 1980s (#101, chosen as the first store to be rebranded).
1710 George Bush Drive - Not part of the 1400 block, but Joe's Books in the late 1990s was the closest to the George Bush side.
1402 - Brown's Shoe Fit from sometime in the 1980s to the early 2000s
1404 - Copy Corner
1404A - Jason's Deli. I remember how Jason's Deli was one of the last buildings to be torn down, and the first to be rebuilt.
1406 - Piggly Wiggly closed in 1980. It was K&M Sebring School of Hair Design by 1981 which had evolved into Sebring Career School in 1989 (same focus), the last mention of it at this address was Career Technical Institute in 1991. It became Discount Office Furniture by 1992 and very briefly "CC Reprographics" in 1996. It later became Burdett & Sons by 1997 (to 2002)
1408 - The directory for 1998 lists "Vincent AC" or something like that, but I only remember a mattress liquidator being here.
1410 - AR Photography
1418 - Gibson's Discount Center in 1976 and Academy by the mid-1980s. By the 1990s it was rebadged as 1420, possibly due to an expansion in the late 1980s.
1422 - Loupot's Book Store. This moved to the center at Holleman and Texas Avenue and is a Salata today. This appears to be originally part of Gibson's, and originally had a south entrance for a garden center.
In 2001, Redmond Terrace would lose its largest anchor when Academy announced it would move out to the bypass (the new store opened February 2002, a store now closed and replaced by an even larger one), and shortly thereafter it was announced that the entire shopping center would be wrecked for a new center: Texas Avenue Crossing. While one portion was saved and rehabbed (today home of Boot Barn—see tenant list—and I think this was where Jason's Deli originally was), the rest was demolished and built anew, and for the next fifteen years the center was extremely stable tenant-wise.
On top of Total Wine going to Jason's Deli is that rooftop parking area, but it's never been very full. An elevator takes you back near Burlington.
Over at the Shell spot, a new plaza was built with Panda Express (new to the market), Complete Nutrition (formerly "Bath Junkie"), James Avery Craftsman (originally something else?), and Cold Stone Creamery (new to the market).
TAC remains rather popular, having brought new retailers to the market and a popular lunch spot with inexpensive restaurants (Jason's Deli, particularly, remains a popular after-church spot).
Here's the current directory.
1400 - Panda Express in the strip center that replaced the Shell. It opened in 2004.
1404 - Formerly Bath Junkie from 2005 to 2009, later Complete Nutrition. It later converted to Supplement Warehouse (by 2022, though the name on the store didn't change) and closed by spring 2025. (1402 not used)
1406 - James Avery jewelry store.
1408 - Cold Stone Creamery.
1410 - Crust Pizza Company opened here in October 2024 on the north side of the building, replacing longtime tenant DoubleDave's Pizzaworks at the north end of the center (2005 to close May 1, 2023).
1414 - European Wax Center (1412 not used), originally Urban Salon.
1416 - The original tenant here, Charming Charlie, opened in 2006 as one of the first stores in the chain (the chain launched in 2004, and this was only store #5 out of nearly 400). It was vacant before CC. In August 2019, the store and the 260 other stores in the chain (at the time) announced it would go out of business. Rally House opened in 2022 to replace it.
1424 - Pier 1 Imports moved from Post Oak Square and closed in early 2020 before the entire chain filed for bankruptcy protection and liquidated. A few years later, Boot Barn moved to the center from Tejas Center and absorbed 1418, which was originally Mattress Giant and later transformed into another MattressFirm location (it happened not long after they had built a store at the former Blockbuster at Holleman). It would close around 2020. 1420 and 1422 were never used.
1430 - Bed Bath & Beyond until it closed in 2023 and became Burlington by year-end (see update 02-10-2024). 1424-1428 not used.
1440 - This was Pine Boutique in most of the 2010s (I think it closed in 2020). For years Ritz Camera & Image (moved from across the street), closed in 2012, one of the last ones to close. In late 2022, Optimum opened a storefront here.
1432-1438 not used.
1446 - Palm Beach Tan (originally Darque Tan for years)
1450 - Total Wine & More opened in 2022. Formerly World Market before it closed around the late 2010s/early 2020s (before parent company Bed Bath & Beyond sold it). 1448 not used.
1460 - Jason's Deli. 1452-1458 not used.
As a closing shot, I've added a picture taken by my dad from 2002 showing the empty Academy.
UPDATE 10-07-2025: Previous updates archived with some rewritten parts and a new photograph.
