‘You can’t really get to know people just at a stuffy event around a table in a ballroom’ By Justin Sayers – Senior Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal Jul 29, 2024 As a black tour bus from Austin rolled down U.S. 79 on July 24 toward farmland straddling Hutto and Taylor that’s now under development, Taylor Economic Development Corp. […]
BY TRAVIS E. POLING Special to the Press 07/27/2024 06:00 AM Electric vehicle maker Tesla has been shipping cars out of the sprawling RCR Taylor Rail Logistics Park for more than a year, but now the company is taking up more than 180,000 square feet of warehouse space there just 30 miles from its east Travis […]
Elon Musk-led company growing its footprint across Central Texas By Justin Sayers – Senior Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal Jul 24, 2024 Tesla Inc. plans to take a 183,000-square-foot, rail-served building in the RCR Taylor Logistics Park that is being built by Houston-based Partners Real Estate. It marks the latest example of the electric vehicle manufacturer’s growing footprint in the […]
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Berry Creek Business Park expected to be move-in ready next year By Justin Sayers – Senior Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal Jul 9, 2024 Houston-based Fidelis and Transwestern Real Estate Services have started work on a long-anticipated 521,000-square-foot industrial park in an emerging industrial hub north of Austin. A groundbreaking took place recently for the Berry Creek […]
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It would have the footprint of about two Lakeline Malls By Justin Sayers – Senior Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal Jul 10, 2024 About a year after a key Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. supplier signed a memorandum of understanding to build a massive technology-oriented business park in Taylor, the Korean company has released more details about what it […]
Many watching this Austin suburb as the next to go boom, economically By Justin Sayers – Senior Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal Jul 9, 2024 Christian Kurtz acknowledges feeling a bit strange having a first day of work after more than a decade at his last job. He took the reins July 8 as director of economic […]
International companies discuss what it’s like to move here to expand the semiconductor ecosystem By Justin Sayers – Senior Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal Jul 3, 2024 At a May conference in Tampa, Florida, executives of Korea-based LS Electric Co. Ltd. detailed plans to develop what the company is calling a technical center campus in Bastrop. The presentation was […]
Little suburb to get big space for businesses By Justin Sayers – Senior Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal Jun 18, 2024 A Texas-based industrial developer is working to eventually build more than 1 million square feet of industrial space in Liberty Hill that officials said will allow the fast-growing city northwest of Austin to “be in the […]
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It’s part of a wave of semiconductor-related companies migrating to the region By Justin Sayers – Senior Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal May 2, 2024 Another key supplier to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is building out a facility in the region. South Korea-based Fine Semitech Corp., or FST, has been working out of a nearly 16,000-square-foot manufacturing […]
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By Justin Sayers – Senior Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal Mar 27, 2024 Updated Jun 21, 2024 11:29am CDT From the Samsung factory rising in Taylor to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Boring Co. operations in Bastrop — plus Tesla‘s growing presence in Kyle and data centers planned in Caldwell County — and every direction in between, the Austin suburbs are booming. Communities outside of Austin’s core have emerged as […]
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