If you drive Highway 71 west most days, you already know the building at 21103 is gone. What replaces it is not a new restaurant. It is a road, cut through the caliche to serve a high school that does not exist yet. The Spicewood you are looking at this summer is the shortest overlap you will ever see between the version that has been here for decades and the version that is arriving in phases.
This is not a roundup. It is a field note for people who live here, organized around one claim: the summer of 2026 is the last one where the old roadside Spicewood and the new masterplan Spicewood are visible in the same glance.
The building missing from 21103 W. Hwy 71
The most tangible change on your commute is a subtraction.
