SpaceX, Elon Musk and Texas
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More big changes are coming to the newest city in the Lone Star State. The newly minted Starbase, Texas will soon have a $22 million community center, according to online records from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Voters, many of them SpaceX employees, decided to create a municipality with a small local government in the once-quiet Boca Chica Village area.
“Starbase, Texas Is now a real city!” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X Saturday ... The number of jobs, the pay, the attention, the development, the energy, the excitement has been a net positive.” Jared Hockema, the city manager of nearby ...
All three — running unopposed — have longstanding connections with SpaceX, Elon Musk’s company headquartered in South Texas.
Mostly SpaceX employees overwhelmingly voted in favor of incorporating Starbase, the home to the aerospace company, as a Texas city.