Telfair Wins Three Landmark Awards

Telfair in Sugar Land recently won three Landmark awards from the Houston Business Journal. The award for best residential community and two awards for transforming a historic state prison building into a popular science museum.Telfair also won top honors in the Residential Development category. The four year old community had a 10 percent sales increase in 2009, a year when new-home sales in Houston were down tremendously.The Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land won in the Public/Private Partnership and Renovation/Rehabilitation categories.Newland Communities donated the 43,000 sq. ft. building, built in 1939, along with the 5.5-acre site to the City of Sugar Land. The city then created an agreement to lease the building to the museum for $1 per year. The museum has a capacity of 2,000 visitors.The museum is now the focal point of Telfair Central, a 25-acre complex that is part of 300 acres of amenities planned for Telfair.Telfair has won a total of five Landmark awards. In 2008, Telfair won in the Residential Development category, and in 2007 it won in the Best Land Deal category for the sale of a 112-acre site to WDJ Realty for The Crossing at Telfair mixed-use development.Source: partnersinbuilding.com