“All of that area back there is being opened up,” he said. “As [Tomball] becomes a little bit more of the geographic center of the precinct, that’s the logical place for it to be located. Plus the space is just needed with growth.”
Harris County officials are working to develop land north of Humble Road near Hwy. 249.[/caption]The service center will house administrative, finance and senior adult program staff currently working out of an office farther south in the county.
“This is giving much-needed more space and strategically placing equipment for the road camp in a more logical geographic location,” Seegers said.
The building itself is still in the design phase, he said. Lone Star College-Tomball and other entities have also purchased land along Hwy. 249 for development.
Seegers said the county is clearing land and building a roadway to the site to provide access to the undeveloped property.
“It’s not just Harris County being built back in there,” he said. “We’re not building a road that is only going to a county facility. We’re building a road back in the area that includes a county facility that we’re building.”
Additional county plans for the site include an annex building.
However, Seegers said there is no timeline as to when the annex will be built. The timeline for building a county annex is based on funding and engineering demands, he said.
“An annex is a long-range plan,” Seegers said. “It’s not something that’s happening tomorrow.”
As the northwest portion of the county sees more development, Seegers said Precinct 4 is also working to extend Holderrieth Road—a three-phase project extending the existing roadway from Calvert Road to the Grand Parkway at Champions Forest Drive.
“That Holderrieth [Road extension] does have to do with the county development back there, but just like every other section out in this part of the county, there’s no place left where you don’t need more options off the main thoroughfares to create options for people,” Seegers said.
The first leg of the project, extending Holderrieth Road from Calvert Road east to Hwy. 249, is expected to go out for bid in the next few months, Seegers said.
“There [will be] just more options for people who are heading west as traffic continues to build in the Tomball area,” he said.
