A Road By Any Other Name: ‘Sienna Christus Drive’ Remains, No Christus Planned
October 7th, 2009 | by Jamie Mock | Published in News | 84 Comments
Missouri City has been without a hospital since 2006, when Herman Memorial left the property on Hwy. 6 that is now home to a Lowe’s home improvement store. Soon after, city representatives were talking about an imminent groundbreaking at Sienna Plantation for a Christus Hospital system facility.
It’s not a road to nowhere, but it’s not a road to a Christus hospital, either.
Sienna even has a street named “Sienna Christus Drive” that runs through the property once expected to become a hospital. The land, however, is now for sale, and Missouri City representatives say the hospital has no plans to build.
City representatives could not provide any information on why the plan fell through.
FortBendNow.com has asked the city if the street name will remain the same, and will provide an update when that information is made available. FortBendNow.com also has an interview planned later this month with the CEO for the Christus Gulf Coast region, and will have an updated story on why the hospital was never built.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:42 am (#)
Why not just change the name of the street to whatever business is at that site now?
October 7th, 2009 at 1:04 pm (#)
Lame… Missouri City has a road named after a would-be hospital system and Sugar Land has a Museum of Natural Science. How cool are we? Take that Sugar Land!!
October 7th, 2009 at 2:48 pm (#)
haha!
October 7th, 2009 at 2:50 pm (#)
Isn’t it near the Fort Bend Toll Rd? Just call it FB toll rd2!
October 7th, 2009 at 2:56 pm (#)
MC has a road and a golf course that liberals have to pay for, what could be more fair than that?
October 7th, 2009 at 2:56 pm (#)
They should just leave it like it is. Who cares?
October 7th, 2009 at 2:59 pm (#)
What’s really funny charlie is knowing you paid for this road when it was still in the ETJ of the city, just like the nearby ranch road. You’re right, you are a tax, borrow and spend “liberal” now aren’t “conman” (and Allen Owen supporter)…LOL
October 7th, 2009 at 3:00 pm (#)
Having dealt with Mo City officials before, I can understand why the hospital decided not to build there. Mo City government (not PD or FD) is the worst group of disorganized, unhelpful, rude trouble makers around, they make it a horrid place for businesses and home owners. The only way a hospital would build there is if it was a psych hospital and who ever had to deal with the city official gets free treatment.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:02 pm (#)
Oh, so this is another one of ‘those’ road projects.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm (#)
as usual calvin the conman you got it wrong.
as you don’t live in MC why is it your business?
October 7th, 2009 at 3:39 pm (#)
Yes ispy, that is a pretty good assessment of the clique. As long as you are one of the 5-6 big Houston developers on Allen Owens campaign finance reports or in his neighborhood you get special treatment they call “fast track”. Which means if you are a taxpayer you get to pay for their projects and don’t speak up or they will attack you (as the “idiot” does in here constantly).
See:
“Malone said he is not “an amateur observer of organizational dysfunction.” He suggested that the city engage the services of a consultant to address recent behavior that has locked citizens in a “double bind” when trying to express their concerns, much like dysfunctional behaviors that develop in families.
Malone said he was focusing his comments on the mayor because he was the leader of the organization, but that he was not solely to blame for recent perceptions, and his views pertained to others on council as well.
Malone said that Owen has made significant contributions during his many years of public service, including countless hours of volunteer service, and that “no one person is more responsible for development of the city of Missouri City than Owen.” He said that he did not believe that Owen’s recent public statements were intentional, but the fact remains that perceptions have been shaped by those comments.
“Governments were created to serve people, not people to serve governments,” said Malone.
Malone told the mayor and council that the perception from Owen’s comments in the June 6 council meeting were that “how much money a person contributes determines how you will be treated by city government.” FB Sun (google it)
PS How could it be wrong “ftbendconman/wadefishin/johnbernardbooks (Allen Owen operative)”, unless you’ve been lying to everyone in here about where you live. Now that wouldn’t be a surprise now would it. LOL
October 7th, 2009 at 3:52 pm (#)
how does it feel to be on the outside looking in?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:22 pm (#)
How about just call it the NO NAME STREET.
If a hospital goes in I hope its a Mental Hospital.
May be we can help those such as FtBendConservative and the mayor Allen Owens to go and see Psychologist to change there ways and mind.I hope they go the way of the democratic way of thinking.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:26 pm (#)
Is that like the ‘no name’ bandit?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:32 pm (#)
A mental hospital? No wonder calvin is so upset its not coming. OIC
October 7th, 2009 at 4:38 pm (#)
It’s a shame, they could specialize in internet stalking, paranoid delusions, and vendettas against officials of
cities they don’t even live in.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:40 pm (#)
Sugarlandwatch–I know let’s name it after the taxpayers in the city limits that footed the bill and we can invite charlie “ftbendconman/wadefishin/johnbernardbooks” and his buddy Allen Owen to not participate in the ribbon cutting ceremony….LOL
What’s really funny is this (since “conman/charlie” has to pay for it):
The S&P report stated: “In our view, the city’s high overlapping tax rates, combined with high overall debt burden from the overlapping school district and many inside-city municipal utility districts (MUDs), preclude a higher rating.”
The report noted that the city’s tax base was expanding and diversifying, and that its tax rate was “stable,” but that the overall tax burden can be “well in excess of $3.70 in some parts of the city.”
PS charlie how do you like paying for another tax rate increase to cover for that special interest TIRZ or bottom land they just bought on your dime and all those “falling property values North of hwy 6″. LOL
October 7th, 2009 at 4:40 pm (#)
santhony:
“As long as you are… in his neighborhood you get special treatment…
I live in Owens neighborhood, and frankly it gets me nothing in the way of special treatment. It would be a more true statement if you said, ‘… or in his circle of friends or golf buddies.’ The fact that he doesn’t see me on the golf course and the fact that he and I have regular public run-ins with the man probably doesn’t help my cause. The residents of QV are not to blame for his crappy judgment, attitude and shady dealings.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:42 pm (#)
You would be an expert idiot (charlie/mega/jbb–singular jerk)…..LOL
October 7th, 2009 at 4:47 pm (#)
santhony:
“As long as you are… in his neighborhood you get special treatment…
I live in Owens neighborhood, and frankly it gets me nothing in the way of special treatment. It would be a more true statement if you said, ‘… or in his circle of friends or golf buddies.’ The fact that he doesn’t see me on the golf course and the fact that I have regular public run-ins with the man probably doesn’t help my cause. The residents of QV are not to blame for his crappy judgment, attitude and shady dealings.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:48 pm (#)
Still not him.
coo coo
coo coo
October 7th, 2009 at 4:48 pm (#)
“The residents of QV are not to blame for his crappy judgment, attitude and shady dealings.” I certainly agree with that last statement mocity. Too bad you all are getting the triple whammy this year with the school district increase, MC rate increase and the county appraisal and not much to show for it from your administration except ways to find more fees and fines for garbage cans you might be able to see from the street.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:49 pm (#)
IGNORE THE TROLL!
October 7th, 2009 at 4:50 pm (#)
You can’t seem to do it so what makes you think anyone else will?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:50 pm (#)
Boy,after my posting ya”ll was waitimg for come back on the no name street.
MoCity who say you get special treatment.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:50 pm (#)
Will do!
October 7th, 2009 at 4:50 pm (#)
Practice what you preach. haha
October 7th, 2009 at 4:51 pm (#)
Why not just take down the sign so people buying homes don’t think a hospital is still suppose to be coming?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:52 pm (#)
Let’s see how long it takes the city to change the sign. It is misleading as currently situated tabor.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:53 pm (#)
He claims santhony said that sugarlandwatch.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:54 pm (#)
I stand corrected. Too bad though for those living in the city limits:
“The S&P report stated: “In our view, the city’s high overlapping tax rates, combined with high overall debt burden from the overlapping school district and many inside-city municipal utility districts (MUDs), preclude a higher rating.”
The report noted that the city’s tax base was expanding and diversifying, and that its tax rate was “stable,” but that the overall tax burden can be “well in excess of $3.70 in some parts of the city.” Chronicle
October 7th, 2009 at 4:55 pm (#)
How did they get that best cities designation last year anyway with all this going on and the recession?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:58 pm (#)
YEAH! You should march right down to City Hall and DEMAND they do something about this ASAP!! HOW DARE THEY let this sign sit there!? *rolling eyes*
October 7th, 2009 at 4:58 pm (#)
MoCity,MEGABITE,b_tabor,FtBendConservative ya”ll must sit in fort of your computer all day.Just look at the posting time.
No name street is GOOD
October 7th, 2009 at 4:59 pm (#)
Hey everybody Captain Obvious is here! YAY!!
October 7th, 2009 at 5:01 pm (#)
I vote for that one SLW. It’s a good name for an empty street or maybe they could call it the CVS street for the nearby pharmacy that relocated for the hospital. . . ;-}
October 7th, 2009 at 5:02 pm (#)
You don’t get a vote because you don’t live there. 8^P
October 7th, 2009 at 5:03 pm (#)
Where was this hospital to be located?
October 7th, 2009 at 5:03 pm (#)
Neither do you jerk.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:04 pm (#)
Or so you said, wink, wink…..LOL
October 7th, 2009 at 5:07 pm (#)
SugarLand - I was responding, in kind, to something santhony had said. That is all. I didn’t think I was being rude about it. If I offended, then certainly let me know.
santhony - yeah, QV will get hit this year. Sadly, most won’t think twice about it. “What? Give the City more money and receive nothing in return? Sure!”
October 7th, 2009 at 5:07 pm (#)
It’s was supposed to be off hwy 6 in Missouri City slap.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:07 pm (#)
santhon
a good street nane one CVS
October 7th, 2009 at 5:11 pm (#)
Neither do you jerk.
The difference is, I’m not the one constantly complaining about MC and it’s elected officials, now am I?
October 7th, 2009 at 5:12 pm (#)
No offense was taken MoCity.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:14 pm (#)
I like that one sugarlandwatch.
PS Sorry if you don’t like the news megabite. Don’t comment if you don’t like it jerk.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:16 pm (#)
Isn’t that the same area they put in that TIRZ that impacts the city, county and other participating governmental entities who collect our taxes?
October 7th, 2009 at 5:17 pm (#)
Yes it is tabor. So maybe we should all have a vote on the streets new name. LOL
October 7th, 2009 at 5:23 pm (#)
So maybe we should all have a vote on the streets new name.
I submit a vote on street call CVS.
Who is on vote.The polls will open soon.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:26 pm (#)
I like the idea of just taking the sign down all together so it doesn’t confuse new home buyers. That would be the cheapest route. They can always rename it later and pass the cost then.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:40 pm (#)
why not name it after calvin? I think LooneyLane is appros.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:43 pm (#)
Santhony says:
October 7th, 2009 at 3:39 pm (#)
“unless you’ve been lying to everyone in here about where you live. ”
Well sure I’ve been lying. Do you think I want a nut like you knowing where I live?
October 7th, 2009 at 7:43 pm (#)
I don’t think anyone cares where you live charlie. Now go soak your dentures.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:44 pm (#)
Trailer parks can be nice to.
October 7th, 2009 at 8:03 pm (#)
‘is appros.’
I don’t mean to be a stickler but isn’t that ‘apropos’?
October 7th, 2009 at 8:38 pm (#)
“santhony says:
October 7th, 2009 at 7:43 pm (#)
I don’t think anyone cares where you live charlie”
well yes obviously you do, I’ve never seen someone so obsessed with me. Flattering? no Creepy? yes
October 7th, 2009 at 9:19 pm (#)
That is correct true.
PS Must be that narcissism you suffer from charlie. Now go soak your denture dummy.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:38 pm (#)
How about naming it “SHOW ME” but install the sign upside down?
October 8th, 2009 at 5:31 am (#)
The reason why we don’t have a hospital are two-fold. We don’t have an aggressive enough City Council, which is always being one-upped by Sugar Land and that we have the east end of Fort Bend County to deal with and the vast migrant population there which overtaxes emergency rooms. The attitude of MoCity’s City Council stinks. They have a limited, negative view of the City’s potential and they refuse to change long-standing attitudes which scare off businesses.
October 8th, 2009 at 6:24 am (#)
The reason MC doesn’t have a Christus Hosp is Christus is located in NOs and they were devastated financially by Katrina. Somehow in some small minds this is MC’s fault.
October 8th, 2009 at 6:45 am (#)
I like the upside down sign idea MoRes, but they really should remove the sign so new home buyers won’t be confused.
I read an article that said it was because not enough doctors would relocate their practices and wouldn’t invest in the area. You learn something new everyday. Shouldn’t the city not of made such a big deal about it then with big public relations releases if it wasn’t a done deal?
October 8th, 2009 at 8:00 am (#)
For more background on this use these searches (try the chron too) for multiple sources of information:
1) http://www.fortbendnow.com/?s=Christus+Hospital
2) http://missouricitychatter.blogspot.com/search?q=Christus
From my reading the city was working very hard before the 2006 re-election bid of the developer backed mayor Allen Owen to keep the Christus failure information from the public because he had use the hospital to justify the nearly 2700 apartments coming to that community.
PS “ftbendconman” (charlie) will just give you the official spin from the city boys.
October 8th, 2009 at 8:36 am (#)
No one would be confused. It’s just a street name. A bunch of hoopla over nothing.
October 8th, 2009 at 8:48 am (#)
its a typical liberal ploy Mega, try to get people’s attn on street signs as congress sneaks a $trillion$ Obamacare bill through at night.
October 8th, 2009 at 9:00 am (#)
That’s right, a failed hospital when a city has none since 2006 and the duplicity of cover-up is just a “liberal” conspiracy to sneak healthcare through congress.
Yes fake conservative (charlie). That is hilarious! Good one, now go back to defending the cronies who feed our tax dollars to their machine boys.–Sounds like a washing machine to me. LOL
PS For the rest of you interested on this topic and the cover-up. Do searches on this site, the chronicle and missouricitychatter. Use the search term Christus Hospital. That should produce the appropriate archives for this, as our fake conserative puts it, “conspiracy”.
–Oh, I forgot, what if you aren’t supporting the presidents healthcare plan, is it still a conspiracy charlie, our special interest “conman”? And why would people who supported bringing this private non-profit hospital to MC be supporting nationalized medicine? YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP! . . . ;-)
PPS I love when you talk to yourself mega/jbb(now ftbendconman)…..very big smile…..
October 8th, 2009 at 9:03 am (#)
Honestly, I don’t think the street name is that big of an issue. Sure, people may be confused by the name, but in the grand scheme of things, it isn’t going to deter people from driving past it or buying a home.
The bigger issue is why we don’t have a hospital in our fair community. It is not like we are a one-horse town. There are more entities out there than just than Methodist (Sugar Land), St. Luke’s (Sugar Land), Memorial (formerly Missouri City) and Christus… although we are starting to hit the bottom of the barrel. Perhaps it is time to think outside the box – such as contacting Baylor College of Medicine or UT Health Science Center and seeing if they want to build a ‘teaching’ hospital or clinic out in these parts.
DosCentavos says:
“We don’t have an aggressive enough City Council, which is always being one-upped by Sugar Land… The attitude of MoCity’s City Council stinks. They have a limited, negative view of the City’s potential and they refuse to change long-standing attitudes which scare off businesses.”
I agree. Our City is short sided and lacking in the creativity department. Mikhail Gorbachev once said, “What is the difference between a statesman and a politician? A statesman does what he believes is best for his country, a politician does what best gets him reelected.” The funny thing is that in Missouri City, we have forms of politicians who do what they believe is best for them (not the City) as well as whatever it takes to get reelected.
October 8th, 2009 at 9:06 am (#)
‘A statesman does what he believes is best for his country, a politician does what best gets him reelected.’ I haven’t seen a statesman in these parts for years.
October 8th, 2009 at 9:08 am (#)
Perhaps you should run for office. Oh brother.
October 8th, 2009 at 9:09 am (#)
Naaa, it’s MUCH MUCH easier to playing monday morning quarterback anonymously on an internet messageboard.
October 8th, 2009 at 9:24 am (#)
Well if that ain’t the pot calling the kettle black…
October 8th, 2009 at 9:33 am (#)
There’s one of those QBs now…excellent timing.
October 8th, 2009 at 9:35 am (#)
“–Oh, I forgot, what if you aren’t supporting the presidents healthcare plan, is it still a conspiracy charlie, our special interest “conman”?”
why are you so obsessed with me? Quit stalking me.
October 8th, 2009 at 10:59 am (#)
I continue to suggest not feeding the TROLL but no one is listening.
October 8th, 2009 at 11:00 am (#)
Yeah, and don’t respond to morons either, people.
October 8th, 2009 at 11:21 am (#)
Are you calling yourself a moron?
October 8th, 2009 at 11:26 am (#)
‘MoCity says:
October 8th, 2009 at 9:24 am (#)
Well if that ain’t the pot calling the kettle black…’ great point mocty.
October 8th, 2009 at 11:34 am (#)
See the post and links in #62. It will give you all the background you need on this.
October 8th, 2009 at 11:49 am (#)
Are you calling yourself a moron?
I thought you weren’t responding to me anymore? Not too bright, are ya? haha
October 8th, 2009 at 12:11 pm (#)
“PS “ftbendconman” (charlie) will just give you the official spin from the city boys.”
why are you stalking me?
October 8th, 2009 at 12:31 pm (#)
Someone sure seems paranoid.
October 8th, 2009 at 12:45 pm (#)
Tabor has no idea what she’s talking about yet again. Doesn’t seem to keep her from spouting off tho…
October 8th, 2009 at 12:45 pm (#)
Just see the post and links in #62. It will give you all the background you need on this.
PS talk to the hand “conman”.
October 8th, 2009 at 1:39 pm (#)
“PS “ftbendconman” (charlie) will just give you the official spin from the city boys.”
why are you stalking me?
this is creepy
October 9th, 2009 at 9:13 pm (#)
Maybe if you take your meds troll before you remove your dentures tonight…..hahaha
1. “FtBendConservative says:
September 4th, 2009 at 8:36 pm (#) SillyAnthony don’t you have some little old ladies to kneecap?”
This is my personal favorite charlie. Come on “fbc” you can top this can’t you? Come on!