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:

Images: Terra Associates

Building Up on Bissonnet