by Nicole Bradford
Once designated for heavy industrial uses, an undeveloped tract on Highway 35 across from Pearland High School will be developed as commercial space, city leaders decided.
Pearland City Council in February approved a second and final reading of a zone change for just over 7.5 acres at the northwest corner of Main Street and Bailey Road. The vote was 5-1, with council member Rushi Patel voting against. At that meeting, the developer provided a preliminary site plan that included detention.
“It’s important to note the site plan is not tied to zoning — this is just zoning the dirt from (manufacturing) to (general commercial),” Vance Wyly of the city’s community development department told the council. I’m not sure the applicant has publicly come out with what the use would be.”
At the first reading of the zone change in January, a representative for JM Projects LLC said the site would likely develop as a retail and restaurant center and that one local business had already expressed interest in the site.
