First things first: A sign off Hwy. 6 welcoming you to Imperial Sugar Land is so far the only part of the 716-acre master-planned community that’s under construction, touts a press release from the end of March. Up next? Starting this summer, adds the press release, something like the spout-centered roundabout shown here and a 254-unit apartment complex will begin going up around the minor-league Skeeters’ Constellation Field in the so-called Ball Park District. Plans show that that district will be flanked by a mix of uses:
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This map view shows the proposed demarcations of the development’s 716 acres into 7 discrete “districts.” Plans show that the Refinery Districts (colored red on the map above) facing U.S. 90A make use of the remaining historic industrial buildings that gave the place a name for restaurants and retail and, if funding is acquired, a children’s hospital:
Next up: The Ball Park District is centered around Constellation Field and that watery roundabout. Here, plans suggest single-family cul-de-sacs with a limited number of apartments — no more than 950 — from which you can walk to root for the home team:
Plans also show that the peripheral Business Park, Highway 6, and Open Space/Utility Use Districts will include civic buildings, office space, frontage-road hotels, protected wetlands, and a water-treatment plant.
This aerial view, meandered through by Oyster Creek, shows a tentative layout of the Business Park District:
Walking trails, meeting spots, park-like greenspaces, and humbler water features dot the development:
- Honoring the Past. Creating the Future. [Imperial Sugar Land]
- Controversial Imperial Sugar Land development moves forward, massive water feature included [Culturemap]
- Previously on Swamplot: Sugar Land Scare: Imperial Refinery Buildings Don’t Come Down Easy, Sugar Land Sugar Box Implosions Back on for This Sunday, The New Sugar Land: More Land, Less Sugar
Images: Imperial Sugar Land (PDF)