HOUSTON | Metro/Suburban Area Developments

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Here is a thread for developments happening outside of the city proper, likely also including developments from the enclaves within the city (Bellaire, West U, Southside Place, the Villages, etc.)

Conroe



https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/...ter-opens.html

Hyatt Regency Conroe hotel and convention center to open in Grand Central Park master-planned community

By Olivia Pulsinelli – Assistant managing editor, Houston Business Journal
May 16, 2023

A highly anticipated hotel and convention center will soon open in Grand Central Park, Johnson Development Corp.'s 2,046-acre master-planned community on former Boy Scouts camp grounds near Conroe.

Hyatt Regency Conroe is now accepting reservations and will officially open on May 25, the hotel said May 15. Roberto Intriago is serving as the general manager.

Located at 1001 Grand Central Parkway, the hotel will have 250 guestrooms, including 13 suites and 11 accessible rooms. There will also be an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center.

In terms of convention center amenities, there will be more than 30,000 square feet of flexible meeting and event space with two ballrooms and six meeting rooms plus outdoor reception areas. The 14,000-square-foot Regency Ballroom will be able to accommodate up to 1,000 attendees.

Hyatt Regency Conroe's dining options will include a full-service restaurant and a lobby bar and lounge. There will also be a 24-hour market with a coffee shop and to-go options such as sandwiches, snacks and bakery items.

Baytown



https://baytownsun.com/local/bayland...4a0ed4dd0.html

Bayland Island Hyatt Regency set to open this week

May 15, 2023

Hyatt Regency Baytown-Houston is set to officially open its doors on Thursday and reservations are now bookable online at Hyatt.com.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony is set for 10 a.m. Thursday at the hotel site on Bayland Island. The hotel will serve as Baytown’s only full-service waterfront hotel. It will have 208 guestrooms and over 18,000 square feet of meeting and event space.

The forthcoming waterfront hotel is located on Tabbs Bay at the footsteps of Fred Hartman Bridge at 100 Convention Center Way. The anticipated arrival of the city’s largest and only waterfront hotel positions Hyatt Regency Baytown-Houston as a top business and leisure destination on the Texas Gulf Coast. Baytown is home of the Goose Creek oilfield developed by the Humble Oil company, later known as Exxon-Mobil, and included the first offshore drilling operation in Texas. Humble Oil company built the state’s first oil refinery in 1940’s and still operates in Baytown today, which has led to the city’s prosperity.

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Sugar Land

https://www.houstoniamag.com/news-an...llion-makeover

Sugar Land’s Imperial Char House Gets a $1 Billion Makeover

After being closed for 20 years, the neighborhood icon is finally getting a facelift.

By Shelby Stewart
April 10, 2023

IN ITS HEYDAY AS A PROUD BEACON of southwest Houston when it opened in 1843, the Imperial Sugar Char House once produced more than 2 million pounds of sugar daily.

But since its closing in 2003 the building has fallen on tough times, succumbing to vandalism and dilapidation. But that’s all about to change with a new vision for the lot and the community.

Real estate development firm PUMA Development is partnering with the City of Sugar Land to repurpose the land Imperial Sugar occupied. “PUMA not only wants to restore the historic structures,” a Houston Chronicle report stated, “but to bring them into the future with a proposed 40-acre mixed-use development that could eventually encompass some $1 billion in investments over the next 7 to 10 years.”

The development is slated to include 660 apartments and homes, 150,000 square feet of retail space, and 300,00 square feet of office space. The City of Sugar Land is taking the necessary steps to initiate the massive undertaking by modifying zoning to allow for apartments to be built on-site. In addition, Sugar Land has agreed to lease 27,000 square feet of office space in the redeveloped buildings.

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Fulshear



https://communityimpact.com/houston/...te-connection/

Fulshear downtown plans to create connection

By Asia Armour | 8:15 AM Feb 3, 2023 CST

The city of Fulshear is planning for a reimagining of its downtown streetscape.

Several projects are in design with the intent to improve north- and southbound traffic, ensure the streets are walkable for pedestrians and preserve its small-town charm, city officials said.

Fulshear Assistant City Manager Zach Goodlander said the city will start construction to transform Wallis Street and Main Street into 80-foot one-way roads with similar designs by 2024. Wallis Street will take on southbound traffic, and Main Street will take north.

Goodlander said Harris Street, which is nestled between the two, will serve as a catalyst to economic development—becoming a pedestrian corridor to hold space for events and commercial development.

https://communityimpact.com/houston/...y-end-of-2024/

Fulshear working to improve Harris Street in downtown area by end of 2024

By Asia Armour | 2:11 PM May 10, 2023 CDT
Updated 2:11 PM May 10, 2023 CDT

As previously reported by Community Impact, the city of Fulshear and Fort Bend County intend to make changes to three essential streets in downtown Fulshear that will increase commerce and walkability in the area.

Assistant City Manager Zach Goodlander said the design phase of Harris Street—which will be funded and constructed exclusively by the city—is on track to conclude by mid-June.

Harris Street is located between Wallis and Main streets—the two other roadways involved in the downtown streetscape plan, which will be funded by the city but designed and constructed by Fort Bend County.

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Cypress

Construction is ramping up on the Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital campus off Hwy. 290. (Courtesy Houston Methodist)

Q&A: CEO Trent Fulin shares vision for new Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital

By Dave Manning
9:20 AM May 17, 2023 CDT

Trent Fulin is the senior vice president and CEO of Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital as well as an executive leader with more than 12 years of experience in health care administration.

The project broke ground in February 2022 and will consist of a seven-story, 569,100-square-foot hospital and two six-story medical office buildings totaling over 323,000 square feet. One office building will contain a cancer center with a linear accelerator, a breast center, and infusion and pharmacy areas, and the other will feature an orthopedics and sports medicine center and clinics, officials told Community Impact.

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Rosenberg

-Fort Bend Epicenter

Progress photos

By me from September of last year



c/o Pleak on HAIF from March 19th of This Year





Further down 59 on the San Bernard River & Fort Bend/Wharton County Line...

Kendleton

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/a...owns-in-texas/

Fort Bend County to invest in new African-American memorial park to honor one of first freedmen’s towns in Texas

Part of Bates Allen Park will be redeveloped, including the preservation of two historic black cemeteries and a memorial to honor Fort Bend County’s sometimes-forgotten African-American History.

ASHLEY BROWN
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 28, 2023, 2:42 PM
(LAST UPDATED: MARCH 1, 2023, 1:20 PM)

Fort Bend County announced on Monday a $4 million investment for the creation of a new African-American Memorial at a park in Kendleton, southwest of Rosenberg. The community was one the first freedmen's towns in Texas – founded by freed slaves in the 1860s.

Part of Bates Allen Park will be redeveloped, including the preservation of two historic black cemeteries and a memorial to honor Fort Bend County's sometimes-forgotten African-American History.

Fort Bend County is one of three counties in Texas with official accounts of lynching and African-American history that range from accounts of lynching, slavery, convict-leasing and the establishment of Freedmen's Town and the first-ever Black elected officials.

Precinct 4 Commissioner Dexter L. McCoy said creating the memorial allows people to learn about untold history in Fort Bend County.

"We have a really unique opportunity here in Fort Bend to tell the full story about the Black experience in this country," he said.

The site will include a series of trails, one that will connect the two Black historic cemeteries, Newman Chapel Cemetery and Oak Hill Cemetery to a Juneteenth Plaza reflection pond, a 3-story tall monument, and potentially a learning center.

"For our team, this is about nonrenewable assets in our community," said Daimian Hines, the architect and founder of Hines Architecture and Designs. "We need to preserve them, we need to celebrate them, and we need to pay reverence."

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Friendswood

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/nei...t-18079743.php

Boutique hotel in downtown Friendswood development will be surrounded by restaurants, retail

Yvette Orozco
May 5, 2023

A developer is planning Friendswood's first hotel to serve as the centerpiece of a mixed-use development in the city's downtown.

Construction will begin this year on the 30-room boutique hotel, which will be part of One Sixty One, a planned 180,000-square-foot development that will include retail establishments, restaurants, office space and 36 high-end apartments.

The hotel will serve local residents and business commuters, according to Brett Banfield, president of the Banfield Properties Inc., the developer of the One Sixty One project.

The One Sixty One project in Friendswood is planned as a 180,000-square-foot multiuse development that will be anchored by a 30-room boutique hotel.

Banfield Properties, Inc.

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The Woodlands

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/...expansion.html

The Woodlands Mall to undergo $100M expansion to add hotels, open-air retail section

By Florian Martin – Reporter, Houston Business Journal
Nov 21, 2022
Updated Nov 21, 2022, 2:35pm CST

The Woodlands Mall is poised to undergo a $100 million expansion, adding two hotels and additional retail space.

In a joint special meeting on Nov. 16, The Woodlands Township and the Economic Development Zone, in a 5-1 vote with one abstention, approved an agreement with The Woodlands Mall Associates LLC, which grants a portion of sales and hotel occupancy tax revenues from the expansion to the owner of the mall, Brookfield Properties, over a 30-year period.

The development area is a 15-acre site adjacent to Macy’s on the southwest corner of the mall, which is currently used as a parking lot.

The plan is to build an open-air, mixed-use commercial center with at least 80,000 square feet of retail space, a 200-room full-service hotel, a 125-room select-service hotel, a multilevel parking garage with at least 1,200 spots as well as surface parking and other improvements.

The agreement mentions Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton, among others, as examples for a full-service hotel and includes Holiday Inn, Doubletree and Comfort Inn as examples for a select-service hotel. It excludes establishments such as motels, hostels and bed-and-breakfasts.

The first phase includes 45,000 square feet of retail space and one or potentially both of the hotels.

The agreement requires Phase 1 to be completed by the end of 2028 and Phase 2 by the end of 2033.

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Webster

-FlyWay / Great Wolf Lodge

c/o Texan on HAIF

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Seabrook

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/...ate=2023-01-24

Seabrook City Council OKs $170M mixed-use project with Compass by Margaritaville hotels

By Florian Martin – Reporter, Houston Business Journal
Jan 24, 2023

Seabrook, a suburb in the Clear Lake area, will be getting an estimated $170 million mixed-used development featuring two Margaritaville-branded hotels.

The Seabrook City Council on Jan. 17 approved Seabrook Plaza One LP's preliminary planned unit development for 11 acres on the Clear Lake-facing side of NASA Road 1 at Repsdorph Road.

The company, owned by Houston-based developer John Fischer, plans to develop what is to be called Seabrook Plaza, with a 100,000-square-foot boutique hotel, a 120,000-square-foot extended stay hotel, a 25,000-square-foot event center, a seven-story apartment complex with 260 one- and two-bedroom units, and about 25,000 square feet of retail space.

It also includes more than 800 parking spots for the hotels and event center and nearly 370 for the apartments. Most of the parking would be on the first and second floors of the buildings.

Fischer has purchased a license to operate both hotels under the Compass by Margaritaville brand, according to city of Seabrook officials. Compass, which launched in 2020, is a “collection of upscale boutique hotels” from Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville brand, according to its website.

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League City

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/...Pos=3#cxrecs_s

Kelsey-Seybold Clear Lake Clinic expanding to create 11-acre Bay Area Campus

By Florian Martin – Reporter, Houston Business Journal
Aug 29, 2022

Houston-based health care system Kelsey-Seybold is expanding another clinic into a significantly larger campus with an ambulatory surgery center and a cancer center.

Construction is underway for the expansion of its Clear Lake clinic, at 1010 South Ponds Drive across the freeway from Baybrook Mall, into the 11-acre, three-building Bay Area Campus.

It will be one of Kelsey-Seybold’s top four campuses, along with the Spencer R. Berthelsen Main Campus at 2727 West Holcombe Blvd., the newly opened Memorial Villages campus at 1001 Campbell Road, and the future Fort Bend Campus at 11555 University Blvd. in Sugar Land, which is under construction.

Part of the expansion is a four-story, 116,000-square-foot professional building, which will include the ambulatory surgery center on a pad next to the existing clinic, and a two-story, 32,000-square-foot cancer center, which will sit right on the Interstate 45 frontage road, next to a La-Z-Boy furniture store.

In addition, the existing three-story, 55,000-square-foot clinic is undergoing renovations and expansions on 25,000 square feet and adding a 300-space parking garage.

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Bellaire

- Bellaire Place

Ongoing redevelopment of the former Chevron Bellaire laboratory space into a mixed-use site.

Renderings c/o Paco Jones on HAIF

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Sugar Land

-Pearl at Lake Pointe





https://communityimpact.com/houston/...t-lake-pointe/

Sugar Land approves rezoning for the Pearl at Lake Pointe

By Renee Farmer | 3:36 PM May 24, 2023 CDT
Updated 3:36 PM May 24, 2023 CDT

The Pearl at Lake Pointe, a new multifamily residential development, has received its final approval from Sugar Land City Council.

Council approved an ordinance rezoning the land to the Planned Development District-Final Development Plan after a second reading May 16. Plans for the Pearl, a new five-story, 370-unit multifamily development for young professionals with office space and a cafe/coffee shop at Lake Pointe Town Center, were finalized by the Sugar Land Planning & Zoning Commission on April 11.

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Sugar Land

https://communityimpact.com/houston/...dy-of-tract-5/

Sugar Land to conduct development study of Tract 5

By Renee Farmer | 1:38 PM May 19, 2023 CDT
Updated 1:38 PM May 19, 2023 CDT

Looking to make Tract 5 a livable, walkable town center, Sugar Land hired a design firm to conduct a study of what buildings and uses the site could support.

The details: Sugar Land City Council unanimously approved a $109,560 contract with architectural design firm Stantec during its May 16 meeting following a presentation from Jessica Huble, Sugar Land’s senior development manager.

Stantec will conduct an economic and urban design study of Tract 5, which comprises the land around and including the Smart Financial Centre. The study focuses on approximately 83 acres of the tract, which includes two parcels owned by Sugar Land and one by developer Newland.

MD Anderson owns three sections of the tract and plans to construct 500,000 square feet of building space, Mayor Joe Zimmerman said.

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Conroe

-Grand Central Park / SHSU

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/...Pos=0#cxrecs_s

Sam Houston State University’s new master plan gets stamp of approval

By Sofia Gonzalez – Reporter, Houston Business Journal
May 30, 2023

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The Conroe campus, which holds the medical school, has an enrollment headcount that is projected to grow from its fall 2021 numbers of 185 students to 750 students in fall 2031. With the substantial enrollment projected, Losch said there is a need for space.

The College of Osteopathic Medicine is the first medical school in Montgomery County and the third osteopathic medical school in Texas, a previous release stated. The medical school was built on 7.3 acres of land in Houston-based Johnson Development Corp.'s Grand Central Park master-planned community, the former Camp Strake site.

Right now, the campus is landlocked, but a near-term priority project for an 80,000 gross square-foot Health Professions building is proposed to create a campus environment, as well as the parking garage, which is underway now, Losch said.

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Cypress

30-acre Cypress Health and Wellness Campus to break ground this fall

By Florian Martin – Reporter, Houston Business Journal
May 31, 2023

A long-planned health care campus on the corner of U.S. Highway 290 and the Grand Parkway is finally close to breaking ground after a pandemic-caused delay.

A group of physicians is developing the Cypress Health and Wellness Campus on 30 acres of vacant land next to Second Baptist Church Cypress Campus.

Groundbreaking for the first building, a 70,000-square-foot multispecialty medical office building, is slated for this fall, said Kim Keller, a general surgeon and one of three physicians that head the development entity, North Cypress Land Ventures.

The other leading members are Kumaran Sathyamoorthy, a urologist, and Julius DeBroeck, a primary care doctor. Overall, the entity includes more than 30 physicians, Sathyamoorthy said. They purchased the tract from North Cypress Medical Center in summer 2019 and initially planned to start with a health and wellness center with a fitness area. But then the pandemic hit.

“It seems like with Covid, that's what got hit the hardest,” Keller said. “So (we decided to) do a pause and just not do anything for two years, just because there was too much uncertainty.”

The plan is now to work on a 110,000-square-foot wellness center after the medical office building is completed. The third phase could include a women’s and/or a cancer center, depending on physician demand.

“The need in the community is there, and so it's a matter of just coordinating the doctors with the need and the institutions,” Keller said.

The hope is to complete all phases, which could include four or five buildings, in about five years. Keller estimates the entire project will cost between $500 million and $600 million.

The first building is fully financed with the help of the physician offices that will occupy it, Keller said, adding that it is already 90% leased.

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Manvel

-Manvel City Center / Municipal & Athletic Center

City page for project: http://cityofmanvel.com/454/Manvel-M...tic-Center-MAC

Feasibility report from December 2022: http://cityofmanvel.com/DocumentCent...ort-PDF?bidId=



An excerpt from a Community Impact on several MPCs and other developments in that city...

https://communityimpact.com/houston/...ulation-soars/

City on the rise: Manvel focuses on infrastructure growth as population soars

By Daniel Weeks | 9:23 AM Apr 17, 2023 CDT
Updated 9:23 AM Apr 17, 2023 CDT

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Finally, city officials highlighted a proposed future downtown area adjacent to Valencia that would feature a new city hall and main city service buildings and an expansive sports complex. The 160-acre area would feature a series of multiuse sports fields alongside retail space for hotels, an amphitheater and other community spaces, according to a Dec. 5 feasibility study for the project.

The study, conducted by The Sports Facilities Advisory for architecture design client PGAL, shows an estimated investment of $63.9 million from the city for the complex, which has no stated timeline yet.

Current council officials touted the project as an opportunity to create a sports tourism destination that will attract visitors from across the state, boosting the local economy and providing a walkable downtown space for current residents.

Davison said the project, which had its design recently approved and may see ground work start in the summer, is facing some criticism from citizens and council candidates

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More from other Brazoria County & Fort Bend County communities - seems there has been an increased number of MPC announcements south and west of the city as of late.
A guess would be that it's possibly as the 288 expansion/HOT lanes have come on line and the Southwest Freeway expansion has moved past Rosenberg toward Wharton now.

Iowa Colony

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/04/13/hines-sandy-point-iowa-colony-community.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_27&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s

Hines buys 954 acres to develop 2,100-home master-planned community in Houston area

By Florian Martin – Reporter, Houston Business Journal
Apr 13, 2023 Updated Apr 14, 2023, 11:50am CDT

Hines plans to develop its largest master-planned community in the Houston area since First Colony in Sugar Land.

The Houston-based real estate company, along with Trez Capital and several limited partner investors, earlier this month purchased 954 acres of undeveloped land outside Iowa Colony, in southern Brazoria County. The yet-to-be-named community is slated to have 2,100 single-family homes at build-out.

Derek Graber with Dosch Marshall Real Estate represented Hines, and David Cook and Meredith Cullen with Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller. Flagstar Bank and Rocky Lai & Associates provided financing.

The community will be located along the western side of State Highway 288 just south of Iowa Colony’s current city limits. The property will be annexed into the city in the next several months as part of a development agreement, Iowa Colony City Manager Robert Hemminger said.

Hines plans to offer a variety of lot sizes ranging from 40 to more than 80 feet in width.

While Brazoria County requires lot sizes in new subdivisions to be at least 80 feet wide, municipalities can set their own rules.

“As Houston continues to be a major employment hub in the Southwest, coupled with a supply-constrained market and rapid in-migration, the need for attainable housing remains critical,” Carson Nunnelly, managing director at Hines, said in a statement. “With great schools in a prime location, this project will be vital in providing more homebuying opportunities in Brazoria County.”

Angleton

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/...Pos=1#cxrecs_s

Ashton Gray Development to build its second master-planned community, first for Angleton

By Florian Martin – Reporter, Houston Business Journal
May 2, 2023

Angleton, the county seat of Brazoria County, is getting its very first master-planned community.

The Angleton City Council at its April 25 meeting approved a developer agreement with Sugar Land-based Ashton Gray Development for Ashland, an 880-acre community off State Highway 288.

Ashton Gray purchased the land in late 2021 from several different sellers, said Shaun Vembutty, president of the company. The plans calls for 2,450 homes at build-out, a site for an elementary and a junior high school in the Angleton Independent School District and about 45 acres of commercial development fronting Highway 288.

About half of the lots will be 50-by-120-foot and the rest will be 55 and 60 feet in width or larger, with houses ranging from about 1,400 to 3,000 square feet. Vembutty said he expects the homes to be priced from the low $300,000s to the $400,000s, and there is a possibility that townhomes will be part of the mix as well.

Bellaire-based Quiddity is the land engineer, and Houston-based Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP provided legal services for the development. Ashton Gray is in the process of selecting homebuilders, Vembutty said.

Development will happen in two phases. Phase 1 should begin in the fourth quarter of this year and include about 1,200 lots on the first 500 acres, Vembutty said.

The community will include more than 200 acres of amenity space, including a nature preserve, detention ponds with an 8-mile trail system, a recreation center with a gym, a resort-style pool and a lap pool, and a playground.

According to the developer agreement, the city of Angleton will annex Ashland, which is currently in its extraterritorial jurisdiction, into the city limits once it’s close to full build-out.

The contract also gives Ashton Gray and the city two years to secure an agreement from Brazoria County and the Texas Department of Transportation to develop Highway 288 frontage roads.

If no agreement is reached, Ashton Gray will be able to develop the tracts intended for commercial use as residential instead. If they succeed in getting a frontage road built, the plan is to develop a mixed-use retail district.

Rosenberg / Beasley

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/...rosenberg.html


image from an unrelated land sales flyer on loopnet

Hines to develop 850-acre master-planned community Brookewater in Rosenberg

By Florian Martin – Reporter, Houston Business Journal
Sep 15, 2022 Updated Sep 16, 2022, 11:41am CDT

Houston-based Hines, mostly known for commercial real estate development, plans to build a more than 850-acre residential community on the outskirts of Rosenberg in Fort Bend County.

At build-out, Brookewater, located off U.S. Highway 59 along the south side of Finney Vallet Road, is expected to have 2,400 single-family homes with lot widths ranging from 40 feet to more than 60 feet. Home prices will likely range from the mid-$300,000s to more than $700,000, Hines said.

Hines is partnering with Vancouver, Canada-based Trez Capital; Southlake, Texas-based Caravel Ventures; and Tokyo-based Sumitomo Forestry for the development, which will include a “resort-style” water feature, parks, lakes, walking trails, nature preserves and playgrounds.

The plan also calls for a school site. The community is zoned to the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District.

Alex Makris, Patrick Keegan and Zach Leger of Houston-based Partners, formerly known as NAI Partners, represented the seller in the land transaction, which closed on Sept. 6.

The developers expect to start construction before the end of the year. Highland Homes, Perry Homes, David Weekley Homes, Gehan Homes, Chesmar Homes and Westin Homes are the selected homebuilders for the first phase of the development, which is expected to deliver in 2024.

Beasley / Kendleton

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/...community.html


image c/o Fort Bend Star

Starwood, Land Tejas developing 930-acre master-planned community Starbridge in Fort Bend County


By Florian Martin – Reporter, Houston Business Journal
Jun 27, 2022

Starwood Land, an affiliate of Miami-based private equity firm Starwood Capital Group and majority owner of Houston-based Land Tejas, has started developing a new master-planned community in southwest Fort Bend County.

The plan for the 933-acre Starbridge neighborhood, along U.S. Highway 59 south of FM 360, calls for more than 2,000 homes at build-out, with the first phase to be completed early next year.

Land Tejas will handle development activities for Starbridge, which will be zoned to the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District.

The developers have not yet selected homebuilders or price points, according to John Brian, Starwood Land's East Region president.

Land Tejas, founded in 1997, topped the Houston Business Journal’s 2020 Largest Houston-Area Residential Real Estate Developers List, the most recent one available.

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Bellaire

https://communityimpact.com/houston/...ublic-hearing/

Methodist Hospital's application for Bellaire location set for June public hearing


By Melissa Enaje | 2:16 PM May 4, 2023 CDT
Updated 2:15 PM May 4, 2023 CDT

The city of Bellaire’s downtown commercial corridor could be the site for Methodist Hospital and three other retail buildings. After the Bellaire Planning and Zoning Commission passed it by a 3-2 vote in April, the application advanced to the next step with City Council, which will include a public hearing June 5.

What’s next?
After the June 5 public hearing, Development Services Director Travis Tanner said, City Council would take action on the request at a subsequent meeting.

The date for the meeting has not been decided yet, he said, but would need to be scheduled following the June hearing.

It will be a two-meeting process, according to Tanner.

If City Council votes in favor of the application, existing buildings on the approximately 3.19-acre site at the former Randall’s at 5130 Bellaire Blvd., including a small one-story commercial building occupied by a Subway restaurant, would all be demolished, according to city documents.

Renderings from the development packet that was presented during the April meeting

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Baytown

San Jacinto Mall Redevelopment / Project Vector Events Venue

https://baytownsun.com/local/mayor-t...6334abaf0.html

Mayor talks mall at Rotary Club of Baytown

By Matt Hollis,
matt.hollis@baytownsun.com
18 hrs ago

What about the mall?

That was one question Baytown Mayor Brandon Capetillo took time to address at the Wednesday’s State of the City address at the Rotary Club of Baytown.

Capetillo said one answer to what is happening with the former San Jacinto Mall site was Project Vector. He described it as a major project to redevelop the site and incorporate the surrounding areas.

Capetillo said the city has an aggressive pre-development preliminary timeline concerning the former mall property for the next 12 months. Aside from San Jacinto Boulevard and the mall property, which Fidelis Realty Partners now owns, Capetillo said there is another 200-plus acres of land nearby.

“Luckily, there are only a handful of true landowners with large pieces of land in that area,” Capetillo said.

Capetillo said thanks to a recent Chapter 212 agreement made with ExxonMobil, the contract contained a $75 million advance funding opportunity for the city.

“ExxonMobil wanted to be sure something would be brought to Baytown if they intended to make this type of investment that would benefit the entire area,” Capetillo said.

One idea the mayor shared was a possible 12,000-seat arena.

“We are not sure of the size yet, but one that can host large-scale sporting events,” Capetillo said.

Capetillo said the arena could also be used for graduation ceremonies.

Traveling around the country to places like The Star in Frisco, Texas, as well as Charlotte, North Carolina and South Carolina, Capetillo said he and some staff members have spent time looking at other venues and models to gather ideas of what would work in Baytown.

Aside from the proposed 12,000-foot arena, Capetillo said they are also considering an 80,000-to-100,000-square-foot multi-sport arena mainly centered around volleyball and basketball.

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Rosharon

Maxter Healthcare Files To Build Glove Manufacturing Factory On 215-Acre Brazoria County Campus

May 31, 2023
Maddy McCarty,
Bisnow Houston

Maxter Healthcare Inc. has filed with state and local officials to build a $90M, 318K SF factory on its 215-acre campus in Brazoria County.

Maxter Healthcare is a subsidiary of Malaysia-based Supermax Corp. and specializes in manufacturing medical gloves. This factory will be Supermax’s first manufacturing site in the United States.

The facility is expected to cost $500M and create up to 1,200 jobs, according to reporting by the Alvin Sun. Located on CR 48 near Highway 288 in Rosharon, about 30 miles south of Houston, the Brazoria County location was chosen from a site list that included New York, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, the Alvin Sun reported.

The Brazoria County Commissioners’ Court created a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone for the project, which will 100% abate the company’s real and property taxes for seven years, according to the Brazoria County Economic Development Alliance.

The facility will be constructed in four phases, and each phase is expected to produce 400 million gloves per month. That would equate to 19.2 billion gloves per year.