Development in Downtown Houston is constantly striving to provide enough offices for lease to meet this demand, but the real-estate melee of Downtown can be avoided altogether by taking a short drive southwest along I-69 to Sugar Land.

The city’s desirability is easy to understand, as it is an integrated part of the larger Houston – The Woodlands – Sugar Land metropolitan area, while still maintaining a quieter pace of life than the hustle and bustle of Downtown and the busy Loop neighborhoods. This mixed lifestyle has helped drive tremendous growth over the past decade, and Sugar Land saw almost 50% job growth from 2000 to 2007. This job growth has been one of the driving factors in pushing the city to become one of the most affluent in Texas, and it was recognized as the safest city in the state (12^th in the country) in 2010.

Sugar Land is home to more than just quiet, clean, and safe streets, though, and the tremendous job growth of the past decade has been a direct result of companies coming to the city to occupy the high-quality business space the city has to offer. The Minute Maid Company moved to the area in 2009, uprooting themselves from a business space in nearby Houston. The office they relocated is their corporate headquarters, and the company found a new home for almost 300 employees in the beautiful Sugar Land building near Highway 59 and Highway 6.

A number of other companies have taken to the charms of Sugar Land, and have decided to rent office space to accommodate their corporate headquarters in the city as well. These companies include Accredo Packaging Inc., Money Management International, and Noble Drilling Services, among others. With easy access to the heart of Downtown Houston via Highway 59 to I-610, these companies have been able to enjoy the advantages of being headquartered in a hub of commerce, while still maintaining the freedom and flexibility afforded by Sugar Land’s less urban atmosphere.