Check out some businesses in the Sugar Land-Missouri City area that have recently opened, as reported by Community Impact.

Taste Kitchen + Bar: The menu features Southern cuisine curated by Houston Chef Don Bowie, including Cajun seafood and grits, lobster BLTs and jerk lamb chops.

• Opened Dec. 10
• 1550 Lake Pointe Parkway, Ste. 500, Sugar Land

• Opened Dec. 10
• 20220 Fort Bend Parkway, Ste. 140, Missouri City

• Opened in December
• 15890 Southwest Freeway, Ste. 100, Sugar Land

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Sugar Land Town Center could see the addition of escape rooms from Florida-based franchise Escapology, according to a project filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The $725,000 project began Nov. 17 and is slated to be completed in March, per the filing.

How it works: Players are locked inside a themed room and have 60 minutes to escape using hidden clues to solve puzzles along the way, per its website.

Zooming out: The franchise has over 100 locations worldwide, including several in the Greater Houston, located in Cypress and The Woodlands, per its website.

• 2248 Texas Drive, Sugar Land

Houston’s housing market returned to a more balanced pace in 2025, with single-family sales climbing and prices largely holding steady as inventory expanded, according to a year-end update from the Houston Association of Realtors. 

What this means: HAR reported total property sales in the region finished 2025 up 2.3% from 2024, while total dollar volume rose 4.5% to $42.9 billion. Single-family home sales increased 3.8% year over year, with 88,634 homes sold in 2025 compared to 85,373 in 2024. 
A key driver of the shift was more inventory, active listings climbed through the year and hit a record high of 39,490 in July, when the market reached a 5.5-month supply—the highest level since June 2012, per HAR. 

Keep in mind: As supply grew, prices moderated, according to the HAR report the median home price was essentially flat year over year at $334,990, while the average home price rose 0.9% to $426,558 in 2025.