SprawlTag first covered the planned Grand Prairie Taco Bell on February 27, 2024, before the restaurant opened at Lake Prairie Towne Crossing. The Taco Bell is located at 5284 S State Hwy 360, directly in front of The Home Depot. Older Google reviews suggest the restaurant has been open for about a year.
The images below use Google Views to show how the site changed over time. The timeline starts in 2011, when the future Taco Bell pad was still an open grassy outparcel in front of The Home Depot. By 2026, the outparcel had filled in with the new Taco Bell, adding another fast-food stop to an already busy Grand Prairie shopping center along SH 360.
In July 2011, the future Taco Bell site was still an open grassy pad. It sat in front of The Home Depot at Lake Prairie Towne Crossing. The big-box anchor was already open, but this outparcel still had no building. The view shows the shopping center frontage before the restaurant filled in part of the edge along SH 360.
By March 2026, the Taco Bell was open on the former grassy outparcel. The restaurant now sits directly in front of The Home Depot. Fresh landscaping, sidewalks, signage, and the 5284 address are visible on the building. The Home Depot remains in the background, tying the new fast-food pad to the larger Lake Prairie Towne Crossing retail center.
Lake Prairie Towne Crossing was completed in 2007. Before the shopping center, aerial images from the 1950s show the site as farmland with a few buildings along West Camp Wisdom Road. SH 360 frontage roads cut through the area in the early 1990s, but the highway was completed by 2018…