Serene Hills to add medical center
Proposed facility to focus on joint replacement procedures
A specialty care center focused on total joint replacement procedures—including hip and knee surgery—is slated to be the first tenant in a new 24,000-square-foot commercial building to be constructed on 8.99 acres at 5329 Serene Hills Drive in Lakeway’s Serene Hills neighborhood.
The Serene Hills Commercial East office building is slated to include an ambulatory surgery center.[/caption]Lakeway City Council granted Serene Hills Partners, owners of the property, a special-use permit Nov. 16 to include an ambulatory surgery center in the proposed Serene Hills Commercial East office building. The 15,000-square-foot facility will allow for medical procedures and include an option for the patient to remain at the center for up to 48 hours for post-operative care, Muve Healthcare chief operating officer Jane Falk said. Muve Healthcare is anticipated to be the tenant at the center.
Muve Healthcare proposes, operates and develops ambulatory surgery centers along with recovery centers for patients having total joint replacement surgery, Falk said.
“We’ve looked at health care delivery of patients from when they are designated as a joint replacement [candidate] all the way through the recovery 90 days out,” she said. “The care is very disjointed—not integrated across the continuum.”
Falk said her company designed a program so that a preoperative Muve patient would begin to work with the health care group prior to his or her anticipated surgery through his or her procedure, at which point the patient would be either discharged to go home or remain at the center for recovery.
“[These patients remain at the center] not because they are inpatients,” Falk said. “These are outpatients who would have gone home. But, as part of [an insurance bundle], we believe that the level of care we can give in that 48-hour period enhances the care to the patient long-term.”
Steve Durhman, general partner for Serene Hills Partners, said the group purchased the tract in 2014 with an eye toward creating a retail/medical building.
“[The Muve ambulatory surgery center] fit right into what we are trying to do,” he said.
The center will account for about half of the building space, with physician offices related to the medical facility likely to complete the remaining tenant space, Deputy City Manager Chessie Zimmerman said. The site plan was approved in 2014, she said.
West Lake Hills church expands to accommodate larger congregation
St. John Neumann Catholic Church, 5455 Bee Caves Road, West Lake Hills, plans to add a clergy rectory and a 200-space parking lot, said Chad Nusbaum, St. John Neumann chief operations officer.
St. John Neumann Catholic Church plans to add a clergy rectory to the church grounds.[/caption]A permit was filed in October by Bob Galloway and is under review by the Building Design Committee of West Lake Hills.
“In recent years, the number of parishioners at St. John Neumann has increased so that our current [parking] lot often overflows,” Nusbaum said. “This new lot will increase our parking capacity, especially for major church services like Christmas and Easter, and allow us the ability to host other large services. [The rectory will] allow St. John Neumann’s priests to live on campus and be closer to the life and ministry of the parish.”
City gives green light for proposed Bee Cave Parkway preschool
The Preparatory Schools—which has locations in Dripping Springs and McKinney—is slated to add a Bee Cave private preschool in the near future.
Bee Cave City Council’s Nov. 13 action will allow a private preschool to operate in the area.[/caption]Bee Cave City Council approved an amendment to the planned development district along Bee Cave Parkway on Nov. 13 that would allow a 12,900-square-foot preschool to operate at 14001 Bee Cave Parkway, Bee Cave, adjacent to the CVS pharmacy.
The Preparatory Schools owner Mark Schuh requested the amendment to provide for a change in the hours the preschool could operate—7 a.m. to 6 p.m.—as well as loading zones on its grounds.
Bee Cave gets first glimpse of proposed H&M store
Sweden-based apparel and accessories retailer bound for Hill Country Galleria opening
Bee Cave City Council approved site plan amendments to the Hill Country Galleria plans Nov. 24 that would pave the way for an H&M apparel and accessories store.
Bee Cave City Council and area residents saw a rendering of the city’s new H&M store Nov. 24.[/caption]The new addition to the Hill Country Galleria will be a unique construction for the Sweden-based retailer of women’s and men’s clothing, said Jim Hopping, Hill Country Galleria general manager, referring to his conversation with H&M architect Nelson Partners. A prior submission of the H&M site plan did not meet the city’s code requirements, but the Nov. 24 presentation complied with Bee Cave ordinances, City Manager Travis Askey said.
The building—Building D2—was previously occupied by Backwoods and is currently occupied by Chisos Grill and Cafe Blue, tenants that will be relocating in January. After renovations are complete next fall, H&M will occupy about 20,200 square feet of the building with three other tenants—LensCrafters, Boardroom Salon for Men and All Star Burger.
The H&M building will incorporate a stone-and-glass tower and remove some doors along with other facade changes to unify the building aesthetics from a three tenant-space to a one-tenant space.
Steel canopies with timber shading will also be added to the building.
New Cuernavaca condos proposed
Site offers Hill Country view
If all goes according to plan, a new residential project in the Cuernavaca area could spring up in 2016.
JP Newman, CEO of real estate investment firm Thrive, and company President Adrian Lufschanowski are planning a boutique-type condominium complex at 809 N. Cuernavaca Drive, Austin, with up to five three-bedroom units, Newman said.
“The five lots are at the convergence of two creeks and share an incredible view,” he said.
The developers intend to market the project next year, Newman said.
