DEVELOPMENT
Methodist Hospital’s application for Bellaire location set for June public hearing
BY MELISSA ENAJE
former Randall’s at 5130 Bellaire Blvd., including a small one-story commer- cial building occupied by a Subway restaurant, would all be demolished, according to city documents. Quotes of note: “I still keep going back to it’s the only downtown we have. Do we want to ll up the only downtown we have with an o ce building?” Commissioner Cindy Preble said at the April meeting. “No grocery store wants to be across the street from H E B. With Methodist, it did work out. I’m in favor of this,” Commissioner Jonathan Reichek said at the meeting. How we got here: In September 2022, Page Southerland Page Inc. gave a preliminary presentation of the devel- opment to the planning and zoning commission on behalf of Methodist Hospital. Since then, the development has
The city of Bellaire’s downtown commercial corridor could be the site for a Methodist Hospital medical o ce building and three other retail buildings. After the Bellaire Planning and Zoning Commission approved an application by a 3-2 vote in April, it advanced to the next step, which included a public hearing June 5, after press time. What’s next? After the June 5 public hearing, Development Services Director Travis Tanner said the Bellaire City Council would take action on the request at a subsequent meeting. The date for the meeting has not been decided yet, but would be scheduled following the June hearing. It will be a two-meeting process, Tanner said. If City Council votes in favor of the application, existing buildings on the approximately 3.19-acre site at the
Methodist Hospital has proposed a three-story medical o ce building in Downtown Bellaire with an attached two-story parking garage.
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been updated in size and scope from what was a ve-story structure. The new proposed project includes three one-story retail buildings and a three-story medical o ce building with an attached two-story parking garage along with an additional subsur- face parking level. The speci cs: Methodist plans to use the site to o er more primary care, spe- cialty care and ancillary services—such as palliative care, home health and dialysis—to the Bellaire community.
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