The Burleson Economic Development Corporation counts about twenty dining establishments and nine retailers in Old Town. Nine sounds small until you walk it — they are four blocks apart, they are all somebody’s actual business rather than a franchise, and on a Saturday morning the farmers market puts seventy more vendors in the plaza. This is the guide I give people who ask what there is to do here on a weekend.
Small-town retail turns over. Everything below I could verify by name and address, but a boutique can close quietly between when I write this and when you read it — a quick search before you drive is never wasted.
| Shop | Where | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Old Town Provisions | 312 E. Renfro St. #107 | Men’s fashion — a genuine rarity in a small-town downtown. Owners Wes and Anthony. |
| MeccaFox | 102 S. Main St. | Handmade earrings, printed shirts and gifts. Owner Christan McCord wholesaled since 2013 before opening the storefront. |
| Extremely Refined Boutique | 225 W. Ellison St. #109 | Women’s fashion. Owner Mackenzie Prescher. |
| Western Lavish Boutique | 135 W. Ellison St. #105 | Western-styled women’s boutique. |
| Geek Out | 109 W. Ellison St. | Toys and collectibles. |
| Faye’s Old Town Barber Shop | 135 W. Ellison St. | A barber shop. Not a destination, exactly — but a downtown with a working barber shop is a different kind of downtown. |
| Pink Chandelier Boutique | 113 NE Johnson Ave. #100 | Women’s boutique. Owner Leslie Lummus. On the Johnson Avenue edge of the district. |
| Elizabeth Scott Bridal | 113 NE Johnson Ave. #500 | Bridal. |
Two more that are real businesses in the district but whose addresses I could not confirm well enough to print: Accents of Burleson, a home décor shop founded in 1982 and reportedly now operating out of a historic feed store building, and Rebecca’s Boutique, clothing and gifts, open since roughly 2013. Both are worth finding.
This is the single best-run recurring thing in Old Town, and it is the one I send new residents to first.
Produce, pasture-raised meats, grass-fed beef, free-range chicken, locally sourced pork, baked goods, handmade crafts, boutique goods and food trucks. The December holiday edition pushes past 80 vendors and adds Santa photos, a bounce house and a Toys for Tots collection.
Farmers market, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the plaza. Monthly night markets 5 to 9 p.m.
Hot Sounds of Summer. Free outdoor concerts at the plaza, 7:30 to 9 p.m. The 2026 run was May 22, May 29, June 5, June 12, June 19 and June 26. The city’s calendar carries entries for it back to at least 2017, so it has been running a while, though the city does not publish an “Nth annual” number.
The Burleson Independence Day Parade, presented by the Burleson Lions Club, steps off at 9 a.m. in Old Town. The 2026 edition was the 22nd annual. The Hot Sounds concert on the Fourth moves out to Chisenhall Fields rather than the plaza.
Be Healthy Burleson 5K/10K/Fun Run — 14th annual, from the plaza, early morning. Also at the plaza: a Hispanic Heritage Festival with food trucks, music and vendors, and free Zumba Latin Nights.
BTX-MAS: Christmas in Burleson at the plaza, hosted with the Burleson Rotary Club — a lighted parade, a tree lighting with more than 20,000 lights, and a nine-to-ten-minute drone show. The tree was 34 feet in 2023. The Holiday Farmers Market follows a week later with 80-plus vendors, Santa photos and a strolling Grinch.
A naming correction, because I see it constantly online: the city’s holiday event is BTX-MAS. There is no Burleson event called “Christmas on the Square.” And the Halloween Boo Bash Festival is at Chisenhall Fields, not downtown, as are the Russell Farm holiday events — Nights of Lights, Santa’s Breakfast and Christmas on the Farm — which are out at 405 W. CR 714.
The Burleson Historical Ghost Tour leaves the Burleson Visitors Center at 124 W. Ellison at 7:30 p.m. $15 for adults, cash only, group rates for ten or more. It runs up to two and a half hours, or about three and a half if the Baker Houses are included, and stops at the #330 rail car, the #411 parlor car, Babe’s, Old Texas Brewing and the old Burleson police station and city jail.
The Burleson Museum and Visitors Center, 124 W. Ellison St., occupies the 1912 orange-brick building the traction company built for the interurban line — the one that held Albert Loyless’s pharmacy, a soda fountain and the ticket counter. The city owns it; the Burleson Heritage Foundation staffs it with volunteers.
Inside: donations from local families and businesses, historical and visitor information, and a Linotype machine that set Burleson’s newspapers for nearly fifty years. Reported hours are Wednesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Foundation membership is $12 a year and members meet the second Tuesday at 7 p.m.
The two restored interurban cars outside — #330, moved next to the visitor center in 2010 with four interpretive kiosks, and the #411 parlor car — were both worked into the plaza design. The caboose on Station 330’s patio is a third, separate car.
The state historical markers in and right around the district:
There are more markers in the wider Burleson area — a ca. 1900 baggage cart, First Baptist Church, the Bethesda community, Hudson Family Cemetery, Marystown Cemetery — but those are not inside the district, so do not go looking for nine markers on four blocks.
This is the part most guides skip, and it is the part I actually get paid to know.
Old Town is zoned for people to live in it, not just shop it. Under the Old Town overlay district:
That last bullet is the one that costs money if you find out about it late. If you are buying an older structure down here with the intention of doing real work to it, price the design-standards compliance before you write the offer, not after the inspection.
For context on the wider market: the citywide Burleson median sale price was about $342,000 in June 2026, roughly $177 a square foot, with a median 43 days on market and prices down about 3% year over year. That is citywide, not Old Town — nobody publishes an Old Town median, and the housing immediately behind the commercial core is a small, older, quirkier pool than the citywide number describes. If you want to know what that pool is doing, that is a conversation, not a statistic.
Honest answer: the big public investment cycle in Old Town looks finished for now. The plaza went in from 2019 to 2020, the Ellison Street rebuild ran 2021 to 2023, and future Ellison phases are described by the city as proceeding “based on market demand” with no dates attached. The TIF runs to 2041, so the money keeps accruing.
What Old Town is doing right now is filling storefronts, not building them. It lost two anchor restaurants in about a year. An Italian steakhouse has been announced for the former Razzoo’s space. The city has also posted about a demolition at an “Old Town Redevelopment Site,” though I could not confirm the address or what replaces it.
Elsewhere in the city, and worth knowing because it affects Old Town’s customer base: the industrial park off I-35 is growing with Paris Baguette among the incoming businesses, an 84-room hotel has been proposed near Windmiller, ball fields are relocating to the new Legacy Park off Hulen, and property on Gardens Avenue is converting to shop pods.
A downtown that survived losing its railroad in 1931 and its two biggest restaurants in 2025 is not a downtown I would bet against. But I am not going to tell you it is finished, either.
Thinking about the older housing behind Old Town? It is a small, quirky pool and it does not behave like the citywide numbers. Ask me what has actually traded down there.
Ask me about Old TownFigures current as of August 2026. Populations, prices, city projects and business openings all move — if you are relying on a number here, ask me and I will check it.
REALTOR® · BHHS PenFed Realty Texas
I help buyers and sellers across the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex — Fort Worth, Burleson, Crowley and Keller, and the surrounding Dallas area. I write these because they are the questions I answer on the phone every week, and most people never get a straight answer to them. If you have one I have not covered, ask me — I will probably turn it into the next post.