Development
BY SHAHERYAR KHAN & JAMES T. NORMAN
Multiple developments making progress in Pearland Pearland has several facilities in the works, some of which are set to bring additional jobs and businesses to town, according to a March 13 update from the city’s economic development corporation. The breakdown
last two years, according to the email. The site’s master plan overall calls for both residential living and businesses, the latter of which includes retail, o ce, a technology and research campus, and light manufacturing spaces, which will be connected by parks, walking trails and boulevards, according to the email. There is also work expected on a few di erent roads in the area, as well as water line extensions, which will begin construction this year, according to the email.
In the city’s Hwy. 35 corridor, Mission Building Systems, which engineers metal buildings, has begun work on its nearly 125,000-square-foot facility, which will sit on a 16.7-acre tract on West Orange Street near Hwy. 35, according to the email blast. The building is expected to bring about 100 jobs, o cials said. The city began working with Mission Building Systems in 2022. What else? In the city’s Lower Kirby District, which sits at the southwest corner of South Beltway 8 and Hwy. 288, work has begun on two detention ponds that were among a number of things permitted over the
O cials with Great Wolf Lodge said they want it to be a destination for the southern region of Texas.
RACHEL LELAND COMMUNITY IMPACT
Great Wolf Lodge in Webster to open ahead of schedule The Great Wolf Lodge will open in Webster on Oct. 18, and it will feature an indoor water park and an exclusive attraction called “the Texas Twirler,” o cials with the project said. The update The resort’s structure, located at 1000 Great Wolf Way, Webster, nished vertical construction Aug. 30, which was previously reported by Community Impact . The focus of work will now shift to the interior of the resort, said Keith Furnas, general manager of the new resort. The Oct. 18 date is earlier than the original planned opening in November, Furnas said. “Construction is going well, which is part of the reasons why we will open earlier,” Furnas said.
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Mission Building Systems' newest location sits to the west of Hwy. 35. The site is close to 17 acres in size.
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Ongoing development locations in Pearland
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SOURCE: PEARLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION COMMUNITY IMPACT
Friendswood City Center to break ground April 18 The groundbreaking ceremony for the Friend- swood City Center has been delayed until April 18, o cials with the development con rmed in an email. The full story
At a launch party for the development in Decem- ber, o cials said they expected the groundbreak- ing to take place in January, but that was moved to February shortly after. O cials now expect it to happen April 18, Kyndahl O’Quinn, executive assistant at Tannos, said in an email. “We are just wanting to be prepared,” O’Quinn said. “We are waiting on a couple of things that we have ordered for this event, and trying to make sure that the mayor is able to make it.”
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The city center, which is being developed by Tannos Development Group, is set to be built at the corner of FM 528 and Bay Area Boulevard, and will bring with it a mix of residential, retail, o ce space and the city’s rst hotel.
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