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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.

 

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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.

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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

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Approved by the Planning & Zoning Commission with a 3-2 vote back in April

Public hearing before City Council coming up on June 5th, with two additional meetings to follow.

https://communityimpact.com/houston/bellaire-meyerland-west-university/government/2023/05/01/methodist-hospitals-application-for-bellaire-location-set-for-june-public-hearing/

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https://communityimpact.com/houston/bellaire-meyerland-west-university/city-county/2023/07/18/bellaire-officials-postpone-vote-on-methodist-hospital-application/

"The future of Bellaire’s downtown commercial corridor won’t include a Methodist Hospital office building and three other retail buildings in the foreseeable future after City Council voted unanimously to postpone making a decision on the developer’s application July 18. But city officials said that they don’t want to close the door on the proposal entirely."

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https://communityimpact.com/houston/bellaire-meyerland-west-university/government/2023/10/19/bellaire-and-methodist-hospital-officials-explore-alternative-options-for-medical-office-development/

"On Sept. 28, Bellaire City Council and the city’s planing and zoning commission held a joint special session workshop. According to the agenda documents, the size of the planned development is still a 3.19-acre site. Changes to the revised conceptual design included:

  • Integrating retail into the same building rather than separate buildings
  • Increasing the amount of retail available to 15,000 square feet
  • Adding more surface parking that is similar to other Bellaire developments
  • Increasing the amount of underground parking to maintain a lower height of the building
  • Decreasing the amount of clinic space

Both parties focused on discussion topics that included traffic flow, street setbacks and the proportion of retail/restaurants to medical."

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On 2/14/2021 at 5:10 PM, nate4l1f3 said:

Is that transit station really ill-placed? That was my grandpas bus station and grocery store in the 90s 😢

It is, the bus ridership demographics don't align with Bellaire residents demographics. Meaning no one in Bellaire uses it. To better serve the ridership, they need to move it closer to those that ride it. That's either down further west on Bellaire or north closer to all those Gulfton apartments. 

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