Editing Sugar Land, Texas (section)

==Local attractions==
[[Image:1cmall.jpg|thumb|right|[[First Colony Mall]]]]
[[Sugar Land Town Square]] serves as the primary entertainment district in Sugar Land and Fort Bend County. The district offers an array of restaurants, sidewalk cafes, shopping venues, a [[Marriott Hotel]] and conference center, mid-rise offices and homes, a public plaza, and Sugar Land City Hall. Festivals and important events take place in the plaza. The new city hall and public plaza, a cornerstone of Sugar Land Town Square, received the "Best Community Impact" award from the ''[[Houston Business Journal]]'' at the fifth annual Landmark Awards ceremony.

Next door to the district is [[First Colony Mall]], a major regional shopping mall that recently expanded from its original indoor design to include an outdoor lifestyle component, several parking garages, and new signage that blends in with the surrounding area. 

Sugar Land also hosts the Sugar Land Ice and Sports Center (formerly Sugar Land Aerodrome), offers ice skating and hockey lessons. It is open to the public as an ice skating facility. Previously, it served as the practice facility for the [[Houston Aeros (1994–2013)|Houston Aeros]] of the [[American Hockey League]]. Also Olympic medalist [[Tara Lipinski]] trained at the Sugar Land Ice and Sports Center.

In May 2016, two sculptures in the Town Square's public plaza were installed as part of a 10-piece collection donated by a Sugar Land resident to the city through the Sugar Land Legacy Foundation.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.sugarlandtx.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=798 |date=May 27, 2016 |title=Sugar Land Installs Donated Sculptures to Town Square Plaza |publisher=City of Sugar Land}}</ref> One of the statues, which depicts two girls taking a selfie, has received criticism<ref>{{cite news |url=http://abc7ny.com/news/selfie-statue-in-texas-sparks-backlash/1367187/ |title=Selfie Statue in Texas Sparks Backlash |via=[[WABC-TV]]|agency=ABC News |author=Patrick Clarke |date=June 1, 2016}}</ref> and acclaim<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Year in Nine Objects |author=Rob Walker |date=December 30, 2016 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-year-in-nine-objects |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |author=Jacob Brogan |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/06/02/a_defense_of_the_bronze_selfie_statue_in_sugar_land_tx.html |title=In Defense of the Controversial Selfie Statue in Sugar Land, Texas |magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]}}</ref> from the media and general public.

Future developments in the city include new mixed-use developments on the grounds of the former Imperial Sugar refinery, Imperial Market, which will incorporate the property's 1920s-era char house as a boutique hotel, as well as in the southern part of the Telfair master-planned community with the [[Smart Financial Centre]] as an anchor.