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Harris County RDA and TIRZ 24
Development Projects and Agreements
HCRDA and TIRZ 24 make strategic community investments in real estate projects and capital improvements that result in resilient, sustainable communities. Integrating infrastructure improvements, transit access, drainage solutions and enduring urban design promotes transformational redevelopment and new development that serves mixed-income communities and mixed-use land developments. HCRDA plans to undertake an ongoing capital improvement program starting in 2024.
TIRZ 24 seeks partnerships with public and not-for-profit partners as well as private sector development entities. Working together, development entities can achieve mutual investment and development goals such as capital projects and housing, including housing for TMC and the Central Business District.
TIRZ 24 also seeks agency partnerships with METRO, TXDOT, Harris County Housing Finance Corporation and other TIRZ/HCRDA entities to scale the revitalization of this 8,000-acre area.
HCRDA Development Agreements
City Place (formerly Springwoods Village)
When ExxonMobil, the world’s largest private oil company, sought a location for a state-of-the-art new campus, it turned to Texas and Harris County specifically, where much of its storied success has taken place.
The HCRDA entered into a Chapter 381 agreement with the Harris County Improvement District (HCID) 18 in 2011. City Place, formerly Springwoods Village, is now a booming, roughly 2,000 acre commercial, residential and retail area with numerous amenities and a 2023 real property tax valuation of $2.5 billion.
- The partnership included an interlocal development agreement between HCID 18 and HCRDA.
- The $82 million development agreement facilitated the design and construction of 6.2 miles of critically needed major thoroughfares and overpasses at the Grand Parkway near I-45.
- Accelerated construction of the thoroughfare system which saved Harris County $40 million in construction costs and advanced private development in the area.
Commercial development at City Place in north Harris County. Photo: Patrinely Group
TIRZ 24 Development Agreements
TIRZ 24’s Southern Sector includes 3,745 acres of vacant or underdeveloped land, old oil fields and underutilized industrial property. These industrial and warehouse projects were initially developed due to a lack of infrastructure (water, sewage, drainage, roads) which impaired higher-density land use development; housing and commercial development could not be platted or permitted due to a lack of transmission capacity for the area
- TIRZ 24 recently completed the Harris County RDA and TIRZ 24 Infrastructure and Investment Study which identified a need for $715 million in new infrastructure to serve the 52% of vacant land within the zone.
- In 2024, the Board authorized a bond issue for $64 million to finance the critically needed infrastructure and housing.
- These initial priority projects will be designed and constructed within the next three years, which will stimulate one of the largest building booms inside the city limits since the development of the Clear Lake City subdivision in the early 1980’s.
Cullen Street Mixed-Use Development Agreement
The Cullen Annexation Area into TIRZ 24 occurred by City Ordinance 2015-801. Covering approximately 189 acres, the Cullen Annexation Area supported revitalizing the area near the University of Houston. The annexed area includes several properties that had fallen into disrepair or were vacant land uses. Executed with the Cullen Gulf Freeway LLC in 2017, the agreement provided for public improvements supporting mixed-use commercial space, student housing and related retail development opportunities along Interstate 45, Cullen and Polk Streets.
University Grove
(formerly Leeland Townhomes)
The 2017 agreement with Urban Intownhomes, LLC., applied to a $12 million townhome development, providing a $300,000 maximum reimbursement for public improvements. Due to a lack of water, sewer and drainage capacity, the area had not experienced real development. Now complete, the University Grove project has catalyzed other new development in the area.
Holmes Road Infrastructure and
Paving Project
Buffalo Pointe, the 2014 public-to-public agreement between HCRDA/TIRZ 24 and the City of Houston, provided a maximum contribution of $3.5 million to construct a wastewater line and improve pavement for Holmes Road, a designated major thoroughfare. The proposed infrastructure would provide water and sewer capacity as well as roadway access to approximately 1,300 acres that previously lacked building permits for water/wastewater services. This TIRZ investment will generate new taxable property values within the service area.
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