A $25 Million Surgery Center Is Rising in Webster: CLS Health's Clear Lake Campus Adds Four Operating Rooms and Two Medical Office Buildings
The physician-owned group broke ground September 3 near Kobayashi Road and Medical Center Boulevard: a 27,000-square-foot surgery center, $8 million more in equipment, more than 40 trades on the job, and a first phase that runs through December 2027.
Webster's medical district is growing toward Clear Lake's neighborhoods. CLS Health, the physician-led multi-specialty group, used a Wednesday release to detail the first phase of its new Webster medical campus - a project that broke ground on September 3 near Kobayashi Road and Medical Center Boulevard, across from the organization's existing medical office plaza, and that will bring an ambulatory surgery center and two medical office buildings to the corridor.
The surgery center is the anchor. At approximately 27,000 square feet, it will house four operating rooms, two cath lab rooms and two procedure rooms, with construction costs for the shell and interior build-out expected to exceed $25 million and an additional $8 million planned for medical equipment. The specialty list the center is built for runs long - cardiology, vascular, ophthalmology, orthopedics, gastroenterology, podiatry, ENT, dermatology and pain management - which is the company's argument in bricks: procedures Clear Lake patients now drive into central Houston for, available close to home.
The build itself is a regional jobs file. More than 40 different trades will contribute to the development, from site work and underground utilities to interior finishes, alongside medical equipment vendors and installation crews, and the two medical office buildings in the same phase add primary and specialty care space for a part of Greater Houston that keeps adding rooftops. Construction on the full first phase is expected to continue through December 2027, and the company says development will proceed in phases under a master plan for the property, with finishing the surgery center's shell and interior as the immediate priority.
CLS Health is physician-owned and physician-led, with more than 45 locations and more than 300 providers across Greater Houston, and its chief infrastructure officer, Ammar Baba, framed the Webster project in the release as the group's next chapter - a surgical center, in his words, that represents its continued investment in the communities it serves. The doors are more than a year away; the construction fence, and the spending behind it, are already up.
