SpaceX announces plans to build $100 million office complex in Brownsville
According to a filing with the Texas Department of Regulations and Licensing, SpaceX is now planning a $100 million office complex in Brownsville, Texas, in addition to the extensive facilities it is building nearby at its launch site at Boca Chica.
Just a few miles away from its launch site, SpaceX will construct the multimillion-dollar office inside an industrial factory. It will be located at 52198 San Martin Blvd., Brownsville, TX 78521, according to the Texas Department of Regulations and Licensing filing.
Construction is slated to begin this month and is expected to have just under a year turnaround. An estimated start date is listed as February 23, with a completion date of January 1, 2025, according to the TDLR filing. All TDLR filings are subject to change.
It seems to me that the activist group Save RGV (Rio Grand Valley) that is suing SpaceX to shut down Boca Chica is acting to destroy this region, not save it. Before SpaceX showed up the economy of Brownsville and the Rio Grand Valley was very depressed and going nowhere. SpaceX has brought in billions in investment capital as well as tens of thousands of new jobs.
One wonders how any court can rule in favor of Save RGV’s lawsuit that seeks to prevent any future temporary beach closures at Boca Chica and thus outlaw any further launches. Such a ruling would essentially shut down much of what SpaceX is doing in the Brownsville region, and would result in the destruction of this new economic growth.
Such a ruling seems insane, but we should not ignore its possibility. Stupider decisions by courts have been made many times in the past. And it does appear we live in very stupid times.
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According to a filing with the Texas Department of Regulations and Licensing, SpaceX is now planning a $100 million office complex in Brownsville, Texas, in addition to the extensive facilities it is building nearby at its launch site at Boca Chica.
Just a few miles away from its launch site, SpaceX will construct the multimillion-dollar office inside an industrial factory. It will be located at 52198 San Martin Blvd., Brownsville, TX 78521, according to the Texas Department of Regulations and Licensing filing.
Construction is slated to begin this month and is expected to have just under a year turnaround. An estimated start date is listed as February 23, with a completion date of January 1, 2025, according to the TDLR filing. All TDLR filings are subject to change.
It seems to me that the activist group Save RGV (Rio Grand Valley) that is suing SpaceX to shut down Boca Chica is acting to destroy this region, not save it. Before SpaceX showed up the economy of Brownsville and the Rio Grand Valley was very depressed and going nowhere. SpaceX has brought in billions in investment capital as well as tens of thousands of new jobs.
One wonders how any court can rule in favor of Save RGV’s lawsuit that seeks to prevent any future temporary beach closures at Boca Chica and thus outlaw any further launches. Such a ruling would essentially shut down much of what SpaceX is doing in the Brownsville region, and would result in the destruction of this new economic growth.
Such a ruling seems insane, but we should not ignore its possibility. Stupider decisions by courts have been made many times in the past. And it does appear we live in very stupid times.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Well that is one way to convince the judges to leave Space X alone and let them keep closing the beaches.
“… it does appear we live in very stupid times.”
I think “corrupt” is the better term, Mann -vs- Steyn being a prime example.
Hummmm. It sounds like Mr. Musk might have read Dürrenmatt’s The Visit (Besuch der alten Dame), lol. If people want that new office complex, perhaps the State of Texas could find a way to compromise a bit with those beach closures.
Mr. Z.,
just an FYI– did a Bing search on the address you listed, and your post here at BtB was the 4th result.
https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Projects/TABS2024011437
Estimated Cost: $100,000,000
Type of Work: New Construction
Type of Funds: This project is privately funded, on private land for private use.
Scope of Work: 5 levels of Office Mezzanine as an addition to an approximately 1 million square foot special use industrial factory.
Square Footage: 329,493 ft(2)”
If the internet is to be believed: “100 Million dollars in private construction spending supports (directly & indirectly) 2,400 full time jobs for 1 year.”
(I don’t follow the on-the-ground stuff closely, but if I was the mayor, I’d give Musk the key to the City, if they had city. I just looked at the map, appears to be a business-park, in no-where ville. )
A Few Good Men (1992)
“I’d rather you just said Thank You…”
https://youtu.be/pebaBnA6PTY
(0:03)
SpaceX moves state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/02/15/musk-says-spacex-has-moved-state-of-incorporation-to-texas-amid-feud-with-delaware/?sh=2d2bb852386f
“perhaps the State of Texas could find a way to compromise a bit with those beach closures”
The problem is the State Constitution. State Constitutions are a dog’s breakfast in general but Texas’ in particular is something even a starving street mutt wouldn’t stomach.
This beach amendment was so badly worded it might shut down new refineries and port-expansions as well. Which I’m sure the the longterm plan for these activists.
It may need to go back to the voters.
Musk needs to come to Alabama
Pink Floyds
“Shine On You Crazy Diamond”
Arye & Gil Breslev , Zion Square, Jerusalem (2013)
https://youtu.be/D97gP-1zyqQ?t=422