Affordable healthcare clinic breaks ground in Pasadena

Houston Methodist and Legacy Community Health broke ground Friday on a $20 million health clinic in Pasadena, the first of two projects the organizations are bringing to underserved areas of metro Houston.

Legacy is expanding to Pasadena and Acres Homes for the first time, thanks to a $50 million donation from Houston Methodist, which also donated land for the clinics.

The 40,000-square-foot Pasadena clinic is expected to serve approximately 50,000 patients in the area. Designed by Kirksey Architects, the two-story clinic will open in October 2025 at 1951 Southmore.

As a federally qualified health clinic, Legacy provides services to any patient, regardless of financial ability.

The Legacy Pasadena Southmore Clinic will offer a full range of affordable healthcare services, including adult and pediatric primary care, obstetrical services, behavioral health services, comprehensive HIV care, specialty care and dental services.

Legacy plans to break ground on its Acres Homes clinic in the fall at 3011 West Gulf Bank.

The clinics are part of a wave of expansion of health systems to meet the growing population of suburban Houston.

As of late 2023, there were just under 1 million square feet of medical office space under construction in the Houston area, including projects such as the new Houston Methodist Hospital in Cypress and several clinic projects Kelsey-Seybold and Memorial Hermann, according to Real Estate. Transwestern real estate company.

In the Houston area, the 290 Corridor, Clear Lake, The Woodlands and Sugar Land submarkets saw the strongest gains in medical office construction, according to Transwestern.