Sugar Land is constantly moving forward. With new and sustained developments and investments in transportation infrastructure, as well as its close proximity to airport, port and rail, Sugar Land is a city on the move.

Air
Sugar Land Regional Airport is flying high, increasing its operations more than 300 percent in the past 10 years. During the past five years, more than $30 million in projects have been completed.

The airport’s role as a corporate aviation hub in southeast Texas continues to expand as new tenants, such as Citgo, Western Airways, and Stanford Financial Group, choose to locate at the airport, citing amenities like the new state-of-the-art air traffic control tower and customs service. The first airport in the state to receive funding form the Texas Department of Transportation for construction of an air traffic control tower, the Sugar Land Regional Airport is also one of the first VFR airports to receive the latest upgrade to a Digital Bright Radar Indicator Tower Equipment (DBRITE) system. Equipped with an instrument landing system and high-intensity lighting, the airport has grown into the fourth-largest facility in the greater Houston area and is the only general aviation reliever airport southwest of Houston.

Many corporate users find that Sugar Land’s location offers convenient access to downtown Houston, the Galleria, the Medical Center and the surrounding Houston area. In fact, a new 20,000 SF Terminal has recently been completed. For more information on current and future projects visit the web site below.

Sugar Land Regional Airport
Houston Airport System

Land
In order to continue to support sustained growth and development, two major toll roads are being constructed to enhance drive times from Sugar Land to major employment corridors and areas of interest throughout Houston.

The many current projects involving extensions of roadways are all designed to keep up with the area's skyrocketing growth. US highway 59, State Highway 6 and US Highway 90A, main thoroughfares through the city, are expanding to further enhance mobility. Two new major toll roads are also being constructed, which will enhance drive times from Sugar Land to major employment corridors and areas of interest throughout Houston. The additional thoroughfares create new interchanges with existing roads used daily by Sugar Land residents and are designed to improve traffic flow and mobility while beautifying the area with forested landscaping. The new and expanded wooded thoroughfares make Sugar Land a place to enjoy moving in and through.

Fort Bend County Toll Road
HGAC Regional Transportation Council
Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road Map
Fort Bend Westpark Tollway Map

Sea
The Port of Houston is a 25-mile-long complex of diversified public and private facilities located in close proximity to the Gulf of Mexico. The port is ranked first in the United States in foreign waterborne commerce, second in total tonnage, and sixth in the world. Approximately 200 million tons of cargo moved through the Port of Houston in 2006. A total of 7,550 vessel calls were recorded there during the year 2006.

Texas Ports Association
Port of Houston

Rail
The Imperial Sugar Company built its own railroad in Sugar Land to gain direct access to the sugar cane grown in Brazoria County without having to ship it through Houston. In the 1920s the president of the sugar company took great pride in the Sugar Land Railroad and traveled extensively in the business car owned by the railroad. These plush passenger cars were the “corporate jets” of that era and were pulled free of charge by the railroads in the country as a courtesy to each other. In 1956, the line became part of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and in the 1970s, the MP gained track rights over the Southern Pacific into Houston. The yard in Sugar Land is still used by the Union Pacific as a transportation hub serving the Midwest and Southwest with routes from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, and Memphis to the Mexican border and the Gulf of Mexico.