$8 million freestanding emergency center planned on West Princeton Drive, state filing shows

A 12,200-square-foot emergency medical center is planned for 1650 W. Princeton Drive, according to a project the state's Department of Licensing and Regulation logged on Monday.

The filing, titled Christian Heights Emergency Center, lists an estimated cost of $8 million for new construction. Work is scheduled to begin Dec. 14 and wrap up June 25, 2027, the record shows.

Who is behind it

The owner listed on the filing is Christian Heights Holdings LLC, with an address on Calder Avenue in Beaumont. The design firm is Lopez Salas Architects of San Antonio. The record describes the project as privately funded on private land and says no tenant has been assigned.

The state registration is required for accessibility review. It does not describe the services the center would offer, its hours or an operator, and it does not show whether the city has approved a site plan or plat for the address. A search of the agency's database turned up no other project for the owner.

A second medical project in the area

The filing comes a week after the City Council approved a final plat for a separate project, a 1.64-acre lot for a micro-hospital on the west side of South Beauchamp Boulevard about 750 feet south of U.S. Highway 380. City documents for that plat did not name an operator, and neither record links the two projects.

Princeton's other recent state filings along Princeton Drive have been mostly retail, including a Kroger store and fuel center, a Hobby Lobby and the Princeton Town Center shops, according to the agency's database.

Under state rules, the owner of a building covered by the accessibility law must get an inspection by a registered accessibility specialist within a year after construction is finished.

Sources

State of Texas

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