Business View Magazine | March 2018

145 LEADINGMEDICINE INYOURCOMMUNITY Where you gomakes a Difference ProViDingQuaLiTy care cLose Tohome Baytown and Houston since 1948, Houston Methodist San Jacinto Hospital continues to grow by enhancing and expanding its services in step with the rapid growth of the community. Houston Methodist San Jacinto has been recognized as one of the area’s only not-for-profit, church-affiliated medical centers. The hospital continues to meet the needs of our community and region with cutting-edge medical services and technology. 4401 Garth Rd. | Baytown, TX 77521 281.428.2273 houstonmethodist.org/sanjacinto ment Reinvestment ZoneAuthority for contiguous transportation improvements including the reorien- tation of trafficoff of Interstate 10,tomake sure that most of it comes to the newSan Jacinto Boulevard. “It’s averyexciting project,”says Davis.“An interesting part of it is that,at the intersection of Hunt Road and the newSan Jacinto Boulevard,we are placing a large roundabout with a sixteen-foot statue of SamHouston, pointing toward the San JacintoMonument.That was the decisive battle forTexas independence.So,we’re proud to highlight that.We alsowill haveveryunique landscaping along San Jacinto that will make it a showpiece for the city.” Another major project is the planned construction of a $56-million hotel/conference center at the base of the FredHartman Bridge,which links Baytown to the Cityof La Porte,across theHouston Ship Channel.“This will be a 208-key,hotel with a full-service conference center,”Davis reveals.“We thinkit’s a game changer for our communityand it’s also avery important invest- ment in the south end of our city,which is where we have targeted revitalization.Our frontier is to our north,our older section of town is to the south,and so it would be quite easy for us just to continue to build newstuff to the north–that’s where themall is and some newresidential development.But we felt that it was very important to revitalize the southern part of our city.The hotel/conference center is integral to accomplishing that.We believe that it will be in con- struction this summer and that it will be completed by December of 2019.” Another example of revitalization in the city’s older, southern part is Baytown’s Arts,Culture,and Entertain- ment (ACE) District,where the cityhas already invested