COMMENT OF THE DAY: WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH AN OLD GROCERY STORE 
“The Skaggs Albertson at Louetta and Kuykendahl is now a DPS Drivers License Center. The old Klein’s grocery store in Tomball is being turned into a Veterans Health Center. The old Walmart on 249 just south of Spring Cypress was turned into a training center for a company. The old Randalls on Jones is now a Habitat ReStore.
Another good use is for a fitness center.” [Tejas, commenting on Comment of the Day: All Emptied Out with Nothing To Do] Illustration: Lulu
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At the corner of Hwy 6 & Dulles in Sugar Land, they converted the old Albertson’s into a movie house and the old Randall’s into a fitness center. Breathed a lot of life into a corner that had been struggling since HEB moved in and sucked the air out of two centers.
Real shame that Klein’s in Tomball is not a grocery store anymore, that was a beautiful place.
The former Food Town (?) on Ella just north of the RR tracks in Oak Forest has been turned into a mini-storage facility.
I think we should turn that old Randalls into an indoor movie studio, a waterpark, or a casino.
Kroger on 290 now a K1 Speed Karting Track and if you haven’t been it’s a lot of fun.
I wonder if you could blow out the walls and turn a grocery store into a covered open-sided farmers market. Get all those fruit and watermelon stands that are dispersed around neighborhoods into one place. Anyway, thanks everyone for the thoughts on this.
Furniture stores tend to be a good choice for old supermarkets.
ZAW, I’d have to think that there’s no way you could make the $$ work on a project like that.
Drew- why not? Lots of cities build ground-up farmers markets. And the Plaz Americas (Formerly Sharpstown) Mall is anchored by Mercados which are basically the same thing.
ZAW, it depends a lot on how cheap the land is. Most inner loop properties are extremely pricey and can’t afford to host a Mercados type of program.
I remember going to concerts on the North side at The Unicorn, it used to be a Kroger.