Get to Know Sugar Land

Life is sweet in Sugar Land, which started out as a company town for the Imperial Sugar Company. Imperial’s factory refined the sugar cane that was grown in the nearby floodplains, and the company built housing, businesses, hospitals, and schools for their employees, creating an entirely self-sufficient town. Though sugar cane farming ended in 1928, Imperial Sugar still has their headquarters here — as do multiple energy and engineering firms — and the Imperial Sugar crown logo remains part of the city seal. Unlike some of the other Houston suburbs, which are almost entirely bedroom communities, Sugar Land is more balanced, with a mix of residential and business development. For many, that means that going to work is an easy commute, eliminating the need to brave the traffic into central Houston. Master-planned communities are the norm here, with many boasting resort-style pools, walking trails, playgrounds, and golf courses.

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Living in Greater Houston

Like all of Texas, Greater Houston’s history is the story of oil, with suburban towns developed by and for gas and oil executives, with Houston’s Energy Corridor remaining a major employer today. The suburbs of Houston stretch in all directions, from Kingwood, technically inside the city limits, all the way up to and beyond The Woodlands, whose growth and prominence has earned it its own identity, separate from H-Town. These suburbs are young metropolises — towns that grew out of farmland and forest in the past 50 years, with houses, office parks, newly created lakes, and golf courses emerging from rural lands where only cows and feral pigs once roamed. As Houston’s economy has diversified and as the region has created more new jobs, Houston residents have looked farther and farther out for more space to settle. Greater Houston is booming and there’s no better place to call home.