Highrise Tower Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 This is the shopping center with the Randall’s at Bellaire & Bissonnet. https://s25.q4cdn.com/658894972/files/doc_presentations/2020/11/3Q20-Roadshow-(Nareit).pdf A planned multi-story mixed-use redevelopment is in the works. Wonder if they’re signaling that the Randall’s will be closing, making the shopping center obsolete. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas911 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 That Randall's is on super prime real estate. If someone could develop something attractive there, it would do very well. Also they need to get rid of the transit center next to it. Which I thought I read that they were once the new one opened by 59 and South Rice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Even if they got rid of the transit center, that's a pretty major node in the bus network, so there would still be a lot of bus stops and busses. Right now, 2 frequent bus routes, the quickline bus, and 2 normal routes all cross there, and none of them are really going out of the their way. You wouldn't want the Bissonet or Bellaire BLVD busses (the two frequent routes) to go to the west park TC, and from pre-pandemic anecdotal observations, both of those routes are busy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas911 Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 That's true, its kinda out of the way. I will say those busses that use it are nice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 A planned multi-story mixed-use redevelopment is in the works. Wonder if they’re signaling that the Randall’s will be closing, making the shopping center obsolete. Randalls to close another Houston-area grocery store https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2021/01/14/randalls-bellaire-grocery-store-to-close.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_27&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s Longtime local grocer Randalls will close its Bellaire store next month. The Houston Chronicle reports that the store's liquidation process began Jan. 13, and the closure is slated for Feb. 20. The Bellaire store, at 5130 Bellaire, is the only one affected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted January 23, 2021 Author Share Posted January 23, 2021 Randalls Leaves 3-Acre Opportunity in Downtown Bellaire https://realtynewsreport.com/randalls-leaves-3-acre-opportunity-in-downtown-bellaire/ Located on Bellaire Boulevard in the small commercial core of the independent municipality of Bellaire, Randalls will be closed within a month. It’s the end of the line for Randalls, an underperforming store in the competitive Houston grocery market, says Albertsons Companies, the Boise-based grocery firm that owns Randalls. The departure of Randall’s places 3.1 acres of land into play. Its 136,517 SF of prime property – between Bellaire and Bissonnet streets, across from an ill-placed 1.2-acre METRO transit station. The Randalls site is about a half-mile west of Loop 610 at South Rice Avenue. According to the City of Bellaire zoning regulations, the Randall’s site is classified as part of a “Urban Village – downtown district.” “It’s very premature at this stage to speculate what might happen with the property,” says Bellaire Mayor Andrew Friedberg. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate4l1f3 Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Is that transit station really ill-placed? That was my grandpas bus station and grocery store in the 90s 😢 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) How tall of a building would the city of Bellaire permit at this location? Are we looking at a midrise with ground floor retail and garage, or is it going to be more 2-story strip mall type things? I always saw Bellaire as being the Houston equivalent of Dallas' University Park(West U and Southside are more like Highland Park, even more exclusive). Or maybe like Evanston, Il. UP has more commercial development. You'd think the NIMBYs could think outside the box. There are multiple places in Bellaire that could be new urban, walkable nodes with taller buildings. Edited February 21, 2021 by zaphod 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted September 26, 2021 Author Share Posted September 26, 2021 Halloween pop-up store called Spirit Halloween. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted September 5, 2022 Author Share Posted September 5, 2022 Demolition of Landmark Grocery Store Clears Way for Urban Village https://realtynewsreport.com/demolition-of-landmark-grocery-store-clears-way-for-urban-village/ BELLAIRE, Texas – (By Michelle Leigh Smith for Realty News Report) – Kimco has signed a lease with a group of medical professionals from Houston Methodist who plan to raze the 106,000 SF Randalls, according to city officials. The venerable connection with Bellaire’s go-go days of 1956 sits on 3.1 acres. The grocery store, adored for its convenience and high-quality wines and foods, has stood at 5130 Bellaire Boulevard at S. Rice Avenue for more than 66 years. Monique Alejos, Development Review Coordinator, Development Services, City of Bellaire says the medical group is part of Houston Methodist and plans are congealing for a surgery center – one that will not involve expensive Texas Medical Center parking fees and dense TMC traffic. According to documents obtained through an Open Records Request, the group will request permission to build the new structure four stories high. Walter P. Moore and Anthony Wright at PageThink have been engaged to work with the City of Bellaire on a new site plan and permitting. Engineer Avinash Kalagarla is looking at existing utilities to see if they have the capacity to handle a new 106,000 SF medical office building The City of Bellaire’s Urban Village district code provides for a mix of uses and style of development intended to reinforce the “small town downtown feel desired by Bellaire residents, including opportunities for shopping, services, dining and entertainment. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Hopefully the NIMBYS of Bellaire don’t shoot it down. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas911 Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 If true, it's wasted space for a medical building. It's prime retail if ever there was one. Maybe they should bring back the traffic circle there to slow everyone down and get more foot traffic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 Game-changing design for the City of Bellaire!! Unfortunately this has been scaled down to 3-stories. I really like the three retail buildings and green space. Would be a vast improvement over the giant surface lot! My only complaint is the height. Seems that Bellaire refuses to build tall. Believe you are limited to 2-stories in parts of the city. I remember how hard it was for the Chevron site on Fourace to be redeveloped. Took years of public meetings and in the end they were limited to 2 or 3 stories. Public hearing begins for proposed Methodist Hospital at site of Bellaire’s former Randall’s https://communityimpact.com/houston/bellaire-meyerland-west-university/development/2023/03/08/public-hearing-begins-for-proposed-methodist-hospital-at-site-of-bellaires-former-randalls/ Overall, the new proposed project includes three one-story retail buildings and a three-story medical office building with an attached two-story parking garage and an additional subsurface parking level on the approximately 3.19-acre site, according to the commission’s agenda packet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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