When planning for Westhaven was under way, Southern Land Co. spokesman Jim Cheney was tasked with coming up with unique street names for the community. He drew his inspiration from his personal interest: literature. Soon, streets with names such as Kerouac, Tennyson and Yeats will be home to Westhaven residents.
The old will be new again in Sugar Land if the development of the Imperial Sugar Company property proceeds as planned.
Cherokee Investment Partners and Southern Land Company unveiled in a public meeting Wednesday night the final proposal for the development of the century-old Imperial Sugar Company refinery and adjacent land. The proposal will be submitted to the City Council in February.
It's been years since houses were routinely built in the Houston area with spacious front porches for homeowners to sit and enjoy the shade on a Southeast Texas summer evening.
The Imperial Sugar Company, the oldest continuously operating business in the state of Texas, processed sugar on the same company site for more than 160 years. When the Imperial Company closed its Sugar Land production operations in 2003, Sugar Land felt the impact.