{"id":251649,"date":"2026-04-15T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251649\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:10:07","slug":"buc-ees-closing-texas-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251649\/","title":{"rendered":"Buc-ee’s closing Texas location"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been awash in news of Buc-ee’s openings the past few weeks, and all the chaos each one appears to cause<\/a>. Entire cities seem to descend upon grand openings and others use the opportunity to make unalterable life decisions<\/a>. But once and while, strange as it may sound to fans, a Buc-ee’s location will sometimes close.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No really, it happens. That appears to be the fate of one in Port\u00a0Lavaca, Texas, which opened in 2000<\/a>. And it’s being turned into a 7-Eleven. That’s almost blasphemous.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Victoria Advocate<\/a>, the Buc-ee’s in Port Lavaca south of Houston is expected to close sometime soon and get converted into a 7-Eleven with a Laredo Taco Company, so there will be tacos instead of nuggets and brisket sandwiches. Which may not be the greatest trade-off.<\/p>\n

The news was confirmed to the Victoria Advocate by Derrick Smith, director of the City of Port\u00a0Lavaca Building and Standards Commission Board. He told them that<\/a> \u201cI did get an email from a sign company, on March 16, stating that Buc-ee\u2019s is being rebranded as 7-Eleven with a Laredo Taco.”<\/p>\n

Chron reached out to Buc-ee’s for additional details and will update the story when we hear back. There’s no word yet on a timeline for the changeover, but it’s been rumored for a while, with locals fearing the worst<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“That’s going to suck if they close permanently!” wrote one concerned\u00a0commenter on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s certainly a rare occurrence, and it’s difficult to find any evidence of a\u00a0Buc-ee’s actually ever closing. One imagines when it does occur the beaver-themed travel center just vanishes instantly in a cloud of red smoke, to never be seen again.<\/p>\n

To be fair, this is one of the earlier, smaller format locations of\u00a0Buc-ee’s, so it’s possible they may be moving to another, bigger space<\/a> in the area down the line. But this hasn’t been confirmed. If that does turn out to be the case, they’ll probably make it the greatest Buc-ee’s in America as revenge for losing out to this 7-Eleven. Hell hath no fury like a beaver scorned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’ve been awash in news of Buc-ee’s openings the past few weeks, and all the chaos each one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85765,2466,1704,85744,56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-251649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-chronbrands","9":"tag-chronculture","10":"tag-chronstaff","11":"tag-chrontexas","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-headlines","14":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}