Seems like there are a lot of developments going on in Sugar Land. I live here and there will be soon a new minor league baseball team, part of Imperial re-development. I heard many 500 fortune companies moving here from other cities because of good living. I saw there are many new retail, residental, and commerical businesses already being in developing process. So many things to do here for fun. For those who lives in Sugar Land, do you agree Sugar Land will be soon a destination city?
you should really qualify your question. a destination city for whom? tourists from out of the city (i.e. out of Houston) or state? no, of course not. it will get some business travelers, and some Houstonians, especially on the south and west sides of town, might drive over every now and then to catch the minor league game, go to a restaurant, etc., but not sure how it will become more of a destination city than that? it will basically be the south side suburban version of The Woodlands, except with a minor league baseball team.
pretty much stole the words off my keyboard. if the OP was implying or thinking that sugar land is becoming some sort of tourist destination he's sadly mistaken. it's a nice suburb of a big city... there's about 100 of those in the country.
I don't know what you guys are talking about, 59 North from Sugar Land to downtown has to be the most efficient highway in the US.
I've heard it's close to 35% Asian now. In fact, my neighbors growing up (Indians from India) are moving there to retire since they can be near other folks like them. So it's a destination for some, it seems.
I live in mo city so I'm close to SL and I can tell you every time I drive 5 minutes to SL it feels like I'm in different part of the world. SL is a European style city and mo city is like the true America.
I remember back when I was a kid heading out to the sugar fields there and picking big canes of sugar to have as a delicious treat.
Was this before or after you got a job? I'm asking because when I didn't have a job, I could get a lot of places fast - just wait for the traffic to die down. When I got a job working downtown, getting there from Missouri City meant getting up early enough to beat 59 traffic, so I got to work by 7am. If I left during rush hour, it'd take me 40-50 minutes just to get to Buffalo Speedway & 59. Of course this was back around 1995-1997.... the Dark Ages. And that 59/610 loop exchange was where you went to risk death. At one point in the early 2000's, that intersection had the 2nd highest amount of daily traffic in the nation. Maybe things have changed...
I haven't lived in Sugar Land in 8 years, and have never worked in downtown Houston, but you're right...I never really experienced morning rush hour traffic in Houston.
Its can be a pain in the ass (especially if there is a ton of accidents, majority of people in Houston don't know how to drive). I live in Sugar Land and go to school at UH M-F.
