Sugar Land closing Sprouts

[Jtxg]

Originally Posted by Htown2013

The city of Sugar Land and Fort Bend County should "advocate hard" for Trader Joe's to fill the space vs. a vacant eye sore or low quality offering.

It fits the demographic better, is less of direct competition with Whole Foods and HEB, and would draw from a much larger geographic area than Sprouts.

If by "advocate hard", you mean the city should give financial incentives, I'd be 100% against this. The city is developed enough, it does not need to attract companies. If a company wants to do business in SL, let them - but don't incentivize them to do so - it's not like companies pass municipal incentives on to the customer. Maybe if the city adopted this mentality, they could I don't know, lower property taxes for homeowners instead.

[Htown2013]

Originally Posted by Jtxg

If by "advocate hard", you mean the city should give financial incentives, I'd be 100% against this. The city is developed enough, it does not need to attract companies. If a company wants to do business in SL, let them - but don't incentivize them to do so - it's not like companies pass municipal incentives on to the customer. Maybe if the city adopted this mentality, they could I don't know, lower property taxes for homeowners instead.

City taxes are low for SL. It's the MUD, LID, and school, especially with Robin hood, that make our taxes high.

I'll gladly pay SL city tax as it actually provides services and makes the area I live nicer and better, which is very rare to have in the Houston area given most suburbs are unincorporated territories.

[Houston Area Man]

Good riddance.

[Thoreau424]

Surprising and disappointing.

[SaintStan86]

Trader Joe's is on the way to SL.

https://communityimpact.com/houston/...in-sugar-land/

[CA Guy in TX]

Awesome. Let’s see how the prices are compared to Heb.