Residents in Sugar Land are mourning the loss of a real one: the Bahama Buck’s at 1227 Museum Square Drive. After an 11-year run, the shaved ice outpost closed its doors for the last time Sunday.
News of the closure came suddenly. The Bahama Buck’s Museum Square location announced the end just a day earlier.
“What began as a dream grew into something far greater because of you. Over the years, we have had the privilege of celebrating birthdays, first jobs, team victories, family traditions, and countless everyday moments with our guests. We have watched children grow up, families expand, and friendships form over snow cones and smoothies,” the Bahama Buck’s statement read.
The first Bahama Buck’s opened in Lubbock in 1990. Since then, it has incorporated and grown to more than 100 locations nationwide. The Sugar Land location opened in 2015, a year after the shaved ice chain reportedly began expanding in the Houston area. (There are over a dozen locations sprinkled around the suburbs and inside Loop 610 today.)…