Editing Sugar Land, Texas (section)

==Culture and sports==
{{See also|Culture of Houston|Sports in Houston}}
[[File:Smart Financial Centre.jpg|thumb|The [[Smart Financial Centre]] in Sugar Land.|left]]
Sugar Land has a largely [[White-collar worker|white-collar]], university-educated workforce employed in Houston's energy industry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sugarlandtx.gov/sugarland/press_room/quick_facts/census_2000.asp |title=Press Room - Quick Facts - Selected Census 2000 Information |publisher=City of Sugar Land |access-date=November 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128111405/http://sugarlandtx.gov/sugarland/press_room/quick_facts/census_2000.asp |archive-date=November 28, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2004, the city was named one of the top 100 places to live, according to HomeRoute, a national [[real estate]] marketing company which identifies top American cities each year through its Relocate-America program. Cities are selected based on educational opportunities, crime rates, [[employment]] and housing data. The magazine started with statistics on 271 U.S. cities provided by ''OnBoard LLC'', a real estate information company.

Sugar Land was awarded the title of "Fittest City in Texas" for the population range 50,000–100,000 in 2004, 2005 (in a tie with [[Round Rock, Texas|Round Rock]]) and 2006. The "Fittest City in Texas" program is a part of the Texas Roundup program, a statewide fitness initiative.<ref name="SLFCT">{{cite web |url=http://www.sugarlandtx.gov/tools/np/program/view.asp?ID=11552 |title=Sugar Land Wins Fourth Straight "Fittest City in Texas" Title |publisher=Sugarlandtx.gov |access-date=November 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121214065333/http://www.sugarlandtx.gov/tools/np/program/view.asp?ID=11552 |archive-date=December 14, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="SLFCT2006">{{cite web |url=http://www.sugarlandtx.gov/tools/np/program/view.asp?ID=11336 |title=Sugar Land Stays Active to Three-peat as "Fittest City in Texas" |publisher=Sugarlandtx.gov |access-date=November 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121214035919/http://www.sugarlandtx.gov/tools/np/program/view.asp?ID=11336 |archive-date=December 14, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Local sports are popular both at the recreational and competitive levels. Sugar Land formed its first community swim team, the Sugar Land Sharks, in 1967, and it is still competing as of 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sugarlandtx.gov/tools/np/program/view.asp?ID=12076 |title=City of Sugar Land Articles |publisher=City of Sugar Land |date=October 22, 2009 |access-date=November 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120806005320/http://www.sugarlandtx.gov/tools/np/program/view.asp?ID=12076 |archive-date=August 6, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sugarlandsharks.org/|title=Start Here! - Sugar Land Sharks|website=Sugarlandsharks.org|access-date=May 2, 2017}}</ref>

Sugar Land is home to the [[Smart Financial Centre]], an indoor concert hall that is the only such venue of its kind in [[Greater Houston]], and can seat 6,400 seats for multiple events including concerts, cultural events and graduations. An outdoor arts plaza is also being constructed around the concert hall, and will be incorporated with a new mixed-use development that will include two hotels, a conference center, office and ground-level retail, and an age-restricted senior living multifamily complex.

Sugar Land is the home of the [[Sugar Land Space Cowboys]] [[Minor League Baseball]] team, founded in 2012, who play at [[Constellation Field]] in the Imperial master-planned community, located between the Sugar Land Regional Airport and the former Imperial Sugar property.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sugarlandskeeters.com/index.cfm |title=Official Website of the Sugar Land Skeeters |publisher=sugarlandskeeters.com |date=May 27, 2012 |access-date=May 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526064526/http://sugarlandskeeters.com/index.cfm |archive-date=May 26, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Originally known as the Sugar Land Skeeters, they won the 2016 and 2018 championship in the independent [[Atlantic League of Professional Baseball]]. In 2021, the Skeeters joined the [[Triple-A West]] as the [[Triple-A (baseball)|Triple-A]] affiliate of the [[Houston Astros]].<ref>{{cite web |last=McTaggart |first=Brian |url=https://www.mlb.com/astros/news/astros-sugar-land-skeeters-agreement |title=Sugar Land Becomes Astros affiliate  |website=Houston Astros |publisher=Major League Baseball |date=November 20, 2020 |access-date=November 20, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> After the 2021 season, the team rebranded as the Sugar Land Space Cowboys.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Winkler|first=Adam|title=Digging Into the Process of Rebranding From Sugar Land Skeeters to Space Cowboys|url=https://abc13.com/minor-league-baseball-sugar-land-skeeters-team-rebranding/11520651/|website=ABC 13|date=January 29, 2022|access-date=January 30, 2022}}</ref>

In 2014 the Sugar Land Youth Cricket Club, a children's [[cricket (sport)|cricket]] club, was established. In 2016 it played its home games at [[Islamic Education Institute of Texas|Everest Academy]] in [[Stafford, Texas|Stafford]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Kadifa, Margaret|url=https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/katy/news/article/Cricket-isn-t-a-bug-to-this-group-of-youngsters-6946946.php|title='Cricket' isn't a bug to this group of youngsters|work=[[Houston Chronicle]]|date=March 22, 2016|access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref>

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File:Sugar Land TX Constellation Field.jpg|Constellation Field, Home of Space Cowboys Minor League Baseball Team
File:Sugar Land TX Natural Science Museum.jpg|Houston Natural Science Museum at Sugar Land
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