Alamo or Modern: Which Way for the San Jose?

Rendering of Proposed Family Health Center, 2615 Fannin St. at McGowen St., Houston

The Christus Foundation for HealthCare appears to be hawking two distinct visions for the family health center it hopes to build at the corner of Fannin and McGowen in Midtown. That’s the same location where the complex that contained the Fu Kim Grand Palace Restaurant was torn down last year. On fundraising materials for the San JosÃ© Clinic — a charity clinic that currently operates across the street from Minute Maid Park Downtown, and which will move into the new center in Midtown when it’s completed in 2010 — there’s a rendering of what looks like a 3-story stucco Alamo-meets-UT mini-resort building set behind a parking lot.

But the Christus Foundation’s website features something entirely different on its Living the Legacy fundraising page:

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Rendering of Proposed Family Health Center Including San Jose Clinic, 2615 Fannin St. at McGowen St., Houston

Rendering of Proposed Family Health Center, 2615 Fannin St. at McGowen St., Houston

Model of Proposed Family Health Center Including San Jose Clinic, 2615 Fannin St. at McGowen St., Houston There you’ll find smaller images of a sleek, paneled, Modern building that hugs the corner, with an address of 2615 Fannin. It’s likely this represents a more recent design, but the San JosÃ© Clinic website still features the Alamo version prominently. Maybe it’s a marketing issue: will fundraising for a charity clinic suffer if the design loses its theming?