Moving to a new city for a new career opportunity can be very exciting. Moving to the New Orleans area for a new career opportunity is even more exciting. Sunrise Homes has been established in New Orleans and surrounding suburbs for over 60 years. You could say that helping new neighbors become acquainted to their surroundings and communities is a passion of ours. For those of you making the move to New Orleans for your career with Boeing or another corporation, we would love to tell you some “must know” facts about our neighborhood to make your move a little bit easier.

Food, Fun and Family are the three main topics we know a lot about and love to share information on. Questions such as: Where can we go for good food? Where are the best shopping spots and what are that best places to take the kids? This is our specialty… well, our other specialty aside from building brand new dream homes at an affordable price. The greatest part about those three questions is you don’t have to go very far from your home to enjoy all three!

Magnolia Ridge is located in the quaint town of Pearl River, just 30 miles from Boeing. There is never a shortage of good food options near this community. Fremaux Town Center is just 15 minutes from the Magnolia Ridge Community where you’ll find a variety of dining needs. A selection of the restaurants there include: Albasha Greek & Lebanese Café, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, Five Guys, Saltgrass Steak House, and Rock N Roll Sushi. Most would agree that nothing pairs better with a good lunch than a little bit of shopping on the weekends! This outdoor shopping center is your one stop shop for clothes, home décor, books and more! Some of our favorite places in the Fremaux Town Center include the following: Bath & Body Works, T.J. Max, GNC, and ULTA beauty. You can find a full list of the shops and dining list in Fremaux Town Center here

We promised earlier that we would guide you through the fun things to do in this is neighborhood. Magnolia Ridge is the perfect community that gives you the opportunity to have both nature views and city attractions within minutes of your home. For nature adventures you can visit the Pearl Wildlife Management Area. There are several hiking/hunting trails that lead off from the main road of this wildlife location. You can visit the shooting range there or just take a leisurely hike through the trails and have a picnic by the several ponds that scatter this area. A few of our favorite family weekend places are Poitevent Park (1 mile),Fun Zone Climb and Bounceria (2 miles),Honey Swamp Tours ( 8miles) and The Grand Movie Theatre (10miles ).

If you have a little more time to explore we recommend driving across Lake Pontchartrain and heading on into New Orleans, LA. Downtown New Orleans is a 40 minute drive from the Magnolia Ridge Community and offers an exciting amount of things to do. New Orleans is a 24/7 cycle of festivals and fun. Unlike your celebration last year, Mardi Gras will no longer be a short one day celebration. Here you can plan on 3+ weeks of activities and celebrations for all ages. If you are sitting at home bored and don’t want to be, then you haven’t checked out NewOrleans.com. This is a great site for keeping track of festival schedules and general information about events happening in your community.

We could write for days about all the wonderful things to do and the beautiful places to live here in the Slidell area. Each move is specific to the person or family moving in. If you decide that starting a new chapter would be best started in a fresh, clean and new home, then give us a shout or check out our communities online at sunrisehomes.net. We have a local and very experienced team here at Sunrise Homes that can help you decide what local communities would best fit your lifestyle needs. They can help you design your dream home, in your dream location, making your relocation to New Orleans a dream come true.

If you have questions or would like more information about Sunrise Homes or the Magnolia Ridge Community give Jayne a call at 985-778-7636