New 'Luxury' Drug Rehab Center Moving Into Renovated Beaumont Building

BEAUMONT, CA — A new residential care facility for drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation is nearing the final construction phases in Beaumont, according to the City of Beaumont Planning Manager Carole Kendrick.

Located at 210 W. 6th Street, near California Avenue, the 24-hour drug and alcohol treatment facility now owned by United Recovery Project was conditionally approved by the Beaumont City Planning Commission in October 2020.

Much has changed to the building since its original construction in 1925. The building formerly housed a hotel and later a women's and children’s shelter and mental health facility until it was abandoned, according to city documents. It was purchased in 2017 for $3,030,000 according to public records.

Now, new plaster and paint on the outside are only a sample of the nearly 100-year-old Beaumont building’s renovation. The new owners budgeted approximately $1 million to improve the property, Alzate told the Planning Commission at their first meeting.

The building has undergone a complete transformation into a 31-bed, 19-bedroom “high-end luxury” recovery center, according to United Recovery Project CEO and founder Bryan Alzate. The project is geared toward private health insurance clients, Alzate said. Patients of the project will undergo a holistic path back to sobriety including yoga, reiki, massage therapy, karate classes, and clinical sessions.

The United Recovery Project center will be supervised by an on-site medical team, according to city documents. Patients will remain at the facility, "not as prisoners but as patients," for a total of 21-28 days, Alzate said at a 2020 planning commission meeting.

During their stay, patients will take part in both group and individual therapy sessions, according to Alzate. All meals will be catered. There will be an outside recreation area for meditation, yoga and even karate sessions, he said. Though patients can go outside on the grounds, they are not allowed to wander outside the walls or loiter in the streets.

The wrought iron fencing for the front patio area remains in place, along with a fountain.

“This is not a lockdown facility but a private recovery facility,” Alzate said. “We cater to people who are willing to undergo treatment. We ask that they do not take their own cars, and so parking will not be an issue... If they want to leave, we ask that they call their family first.”

The Planning Commission agreed that the 12 available parking spaces will be enough due to the organized, staggered shift changes throughout the day. A maximum of 10 employees will be on hand during the morning shift, according to city documents. Patients will be brought to the center by alternate means and return the same way after their stay is complete.

While there are many rehab centers across the country to choose from, the project's team approaches their work with a serious yet hopeful attitude that is turning heads and creating results, Alzate said.

"My partners and I opened up United Recovery Project to provide addicts in recovery with a comfortable, luxury setting to rehabilitate in. This provides a positive environment that individuals can embrace as they detox and rehab," Alzate said in a previous news release. "This isn't just based on untested theory, either. I have over 14 years in recovery, and 95% of the rest of the staff are in recovery, too. We know what it's like to fight this fight, and we are vested in seeing our guests succeed in their recovery journey.”

Beaumont resident Valerie Monroe emailed a comment to the commission at the October 2020 meeting in support of the business and the community, saying:

“We know the applicant has been operating at the proposed property since May of 2020, and our family does not have concerns with this particular. However, we hope that the city and police will monitor when it opens for a possible increase in crime or loitering.”

The grand opening date of the project has not yet been publicly released.