" Minute Maid headquarters opens in Sugar Land". " Minute Maid gets $2.4M incentive for move to Sugar Land." Houston Business Journal. " Minute Maid will lease back space after building sale to local buyers." Houston Business Journal. " Sugar Land Town Square gets a 'heart' with addition of City Hall." Houston Business Journal. ^ a b c " Sugar Land Marriott Town Square Celebrates Soft Opening With First Guest Check-In Soft-Opening Ceremony for the New, $54 Million Hotel and Conference Center Held October 1." PR Newsire." Office building planned for Sugar Land Town Square." Houston Business Journal. " Sugar Land Town Square developers at jumping-off point in project." Houston Chronicle. " Closing credits roll on Sugar Land Town Square." Houston Business Journal. The developers intended the plaza to be a space for outdoor performances. The complex includes a 1.4 acres (0.57 ha) pedestrian plaza with a fountain. The Burning Pear, a restaurant, is located on the ground floor of the hotel. Steve Eubanks of Planned Community Developers said that the hotel was added to give businesspersons in the city a place to stay. The 300 room, nine story Sugar Land Marriott and Conference Center, was the first full-service hotel in the complex. When building the city hall, the architect and the general contractor negotiated different construction phases via the "Build-Design" technique, saving the city money. The city hall has a lobby with columns and a high-rise ceilings. The building may expand by an additional 12,000 square feet (1,100 m 2) in case of a population increase in the city limits. The Sugar Land City Hall, which had a price tag of $70 million, has 70,000 square feet (6,500 m 2) of space. The Sugar Land Marriott and Conference Center was opened to house business travelers to Sugar Land The buildings not put up for sale, the Sugar Land City Hall, the hotels, and the condominiums, were owned by other entities. At the same time the company planned to sell the entire complex once the two last buildings were finished. On October 30, 2007, Planned Community Developers broke ground on the final two buildings, together with 200,000 square feet (19,000 m 2) of space, to be developed in the center. Minute Maid opened its headquarters on February 16, 2009. Minute Maid was required to place the logo on the headquarters building and refer to its headquarters as being in Sugar Land. James Place building in Houston to Sugar Land Town Center. The City of Sugar Land approved a $2.4 million incentive to get Minute Maid to move its headquarters from the 2000 St. The Coca-Cola Company began negotiating for 120,000 square feet (11,000 m 2) of space in the building. began constructing the office building in July 2006. Planned Community Developers planned to build two smaller office and retail buildings near the large office building. Īs part of its 2005 Landmark Awards, the Houston Business Journal (HBJ) ranked Sugar Land Town Square as having the "Best Community Impact." Christine Hall of the HBJ said that the complex "gives the Fort Bend suburb an "urban" feel." Īs part of the second phase of development for the center, Planned Community Developers announced in 2005 that it would build a six-story office and retail building that would be the first Class A office building in Sugar Land. The soft opening of the Marriott hotel was celebrated on October 1, 2003. The development, patterned after Reston Town Center in Reston, Virginia, opened on one of the final parcels of land remaining to be developed in the First Colony project, also created by Sugarland Properties. The first phase consisted of a six-story, 150,000 square feet (14,000 m 2) office building and 60,000 square feet (5,600 m 2)-80,000 square feet (7,400 m 2) of retail space. The developers intended to create an urban atmosphere in the project. In 2000 Sugarland Properties began to search for the first tenant of the complex the developers had $31 million in financing on hand. Sugar Land Town Square was first envisioned in 1996 as a new central business district for the City of Sugar Land.
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