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JerseyVillage pursues newdevelopment partner for Village Center project

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BY DANICA LLOYD

a later date. Mayor Bobby Warren said this was the rst step in a long process, and council would likely not take further binding steps until next year. “What this is designed to do is to kind of get everyone on the same page regarding what it is we expect from each other, what steps we’re going to take going forward and where all of this is going,” Warren said.

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At its Feb. 21 meeting, Jersey Village City Council unanimously voted to authorize City Manager Austin Bleess to sign a letter of intent with KHJR Real Estate Advisory Services relating to the development of the property o Jones Road on the south side of Hwy. 290 known as Village Center. Collaborate was named developer in March 2019 and was slated to purchase the land from Jersey Village, but its partnership with the city ended in late 2021. Plans for the 43-acre project have included retail, restaurants, oce space, a hotel, an apartment complex, green space and the new Jersey Village City Hall. KHJR has developed and operated several mixed-use developments. Bleess said the letter of intent is a nonbinding agreement that the framework for future negotiations the City Council would approve at

The 106-acre property is located o Hwy. 290.

BoardapprovesCypresshospital plans

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email to employees that the facility will be “designed as the hospital of the future” and will showcase the health care system’s commitment to innovation. The 400-bed hospital will be modeled after the comprehensive Houston Methodist West and Houston Methodist The Woodlands facilities. Boom said the Cypress hospital will also incorporate technological advancements from the health care system’s Center for Innovation, which launched in 2018. “At Houston Methodist we keep the patient at the center of everything we do, and this new hospital will be no exception,” he said in the email.

Ocials with Houston Methodist announced Feb. 10 the board of directors had approved plans for the system’s ninth hospital, which will be in Cypress. The 106-acre property is located o Hwy. 290 between Barker Cypress and Skinner roads and was formerly occupied by Sysco Corp. Community Impact Newspaper rst conrmed the new development in May. Construction is expected to begin in the next fewmonths, ocials said, and the hospital is slated to open in the rst quarter of 2025. Dr. Marc Boom, Houston Meth- odist president and CEO, said in an

VILLAGE CENTER The 43-acre property is located south of Hwy. 290 in Jersey Village.

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