Drawings submitted this month to the city of Bellaire for approval outline how H-E-B plans to fit 6-acres of parking and replacement store onto its 3-acre lot at the intersection of Bissonnet and Cedar streets. The renderings and accompanying documentation show a roughly 75,000-sq.-ft. single-story store footprint sitting on the upper level of the planned structure, with an acre-plus of parking out front atop the all-parking lower level. The drawing at the top shows the would-be view of the design from Bissonnet (near the late-50’s supermarket building currently occupied by Randall’s); below are the proposed layouts of the upper and lower story once the existing H-E-B (also pictured above) and its retail strip friends are cleared of the way:
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Here’s the ground floor plan:
And the upper story:
The view from Cedar St. shows one of the parking garage entrances and some of the street-level landscaping, including the occasional skinny green screen; a few light poles can be seen sprouting from the roof. The store’s front entrance appears to face across the upper parking lot toward South Rice Ave.:
Here’s the direct view of the front entrance, above the angled Bissonnet frontage:
A zoom-in on that elevation (in 2 parts below) shows a little more green screening upstairs:
Here’s the Spruce St. angle, looking roughly southwest:
The view from Fifth St. catches the back edge of the triangular Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt at the obtuse corner with Bissonnet (to the far right):
The head-on view from Cedar St.:
And from Bissonnet:
- Previously on Swamplot: H-E-B Considering Multi-Story Replacement for Bellaire Market; H-E-B’s Plans for a Bigger Store in Bellaire
Images: Terra Associates
This could cannibalize business from the HEB at Buff Spwy@Bissonett, and that would be a good thing, since the latter is overcrowded (weekends, at least).
@Gisgo You should see the one on Bunker Hill during the weekends. There’s police directing traffic and a couple Sundays ago people were illegally parking because there were no spaces.
@Gisgo Don’t think it will really cannibalize much. Many of us who live near the Bellaire-Rice HEB used to go to the HEB at Buffalo Speedway & Bissonnet until the one at San Felipe & Fountain View opened, and you see that the Buffalo Speedway location is still very busy without us. Soon when the Bellaire-Rice location is no longer teeny-tiny, we will go there more often, but I predict that both the Buffalo Speedway and San Felipe locations will continue to do great. There’s a high population density near the Bellaire-Rice location that is currently driven to non-HEB stores just because the HEB at Bellaire-Rice is so itsy-bitsy and cannot carry all the things we want.
Looking forward to seeing this level of coverage on the new HEB slated to go in next to Museum Park (N. MacGregor @ 288). It should be a big one as this is a ‘Food Desert’ over here. And the population density is increasing by leaps and bounds. We drive all the way over to HEB on Alabama & Dunlavy, (And to the Montrose Kroger when we need the convenience, and my Senior Discount there).
This is nice and all and great design and engineering but HEB should have beat Walmart and purchased the land at south rice and Westpark.
I would rather have Hong Kong Chef than this congestion magnet.
This is going to be great. We currently shop at this HEB and love it. Wonder what will happen to Randall’s. Who cares, they are terrible.
let the Walmart @ rice & westpark be as this location is inside of & controlled by the Uptown Houston TIRZ and property tax rate is higher in Houston than in Bellaire.
With all of the applause for the HEB supersizing, you’d think the people of Bellaire were living in a food desert. Not knocking everyone’s First World right to shop at 8 different humongous grocery stores but there are some parts of town that don’t even have a decent “regular” sized grocery store.
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Disclosure: I am one of these lucky people who can shop at 8 different humongous stores – but I only really shop at one regularly. I miss Hong Kong Chef, too.