Weingarten Realty Investors v. Harris County Appraisal District

OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

KEM THOMPSON FROST, Justice.

We overrule appellant Weingarten Realty Investors’s motion for rehearing. We withdraw the opinion issued in this case on May 2, 2002, and we substitute the following opinion in its place.

INTRODUCTION

This is a property-tax-appraisal case involving alleged unequal taxation of commercial property owned by Weingarten Realty Investors. Weingarten appeals the trial court’s judgment in favor of the Harris County Appraisal District (“HCAD”). We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

Factual and PROCEDURAL Background

Weingarten purchased Champion’s…