Recent business going before the Benton Advertising and Promotion Commission point to a Buc-ee’s Travel Center coming to the southwest edge of the city. A group had bid on a 29-acre track from the city at a cost of $77,586.21 an acre for an anticipated travel center. Commissioners were told the travel center would employ 250 people with benefits including three weeks of vacation and a 401(k). Pearland is in south Houston, where Buc-ee’s HR office is located, and is an hour’s drive north from Buc-ee’s Lake Jackson, Texas corporate headquarters. The commission was told that 5 million travel center visitors, 60% from out of state, are projected per year for the location.

Source: Forbes July 28, 2023 16:53 UTC