Posted on 02/18/2023 8:45:43 PM PST by Saije
Residents of Elon Musk’s “space city” in southeastern Texas blasted the SpaceX CEO’s treatment of them as he transformed their quiet beach town into his grand Starbase vision, a report said.
Boca Chica was a small, seaside village at the mouth of the Rio Grande on the Mexican border with just a few streets before SpaceX moved in, promising to turn the town into a terrestrial terminus for space travelers.
The company broke ground on its launch facility in 2014 and started testing rockets there in 2019. As work on the project progressed, SpaceX gradually bought up most of Boca Chica’s three dozen homes, though a few homeowners held out, according to reports.
“Creating the city of Starbase, Texas,” Musk tweeted in March 2021. “From thence to Mars. And hence, the stars.” Starbase, he added, “would encompass an “area much larger than Boca Chica.”
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In 2012, Musk received bids from states and territories that wanted to host a new SpaceX base, with Florida and Puerto Rico being the two leading candidates before Musk settled on Boca Chica after meeting with Texas officials, according to The Sunday Times.
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In March 2021, Musk claimed that Starbase’s population will “grow by several thousand people over the next year or two” as the company — headquartered in Hawthorne, California — expands its workforce.
To sweeten the deal for prospective residents and local officials, Musk pledged to donate $20 million to schools in Cameron County, which is home to the Boca Chica.
He also said he’d give $10 million toward “downtown revitalization” in Brownsville, where about 29 percent of the population lives in poverty.
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And somehow these 2 squeaky wheels got the New York Post to write a story about it.
Bull, I live in Galveston County and that is SE Texas.
Some people will complain about anything to get a few seconds of headlines.
If the NYT had a globe, should they give it to the New York Post?
Prolly have to first steal it from the lobby of the NY Daily News building.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5527/12275954515_7677535c28_o.jpg
Sounds like Leftists to me.
Give a globe to both yankee rags.
From the pictures it looks like Swampland
Bunch of BS. I used to live in SPI, TX and there is nothing down there. A bunch of beach bums and dilapidated trailers with meth heads in there with big trucks to pull you out of the sand.
Extreme South Texas. lol I mean extreme South.
“Residents of Elon Musk’s ‘space city’ say he destroyed quiet beach town”
Articles like this are PAYBACK for not wanting his Starlink assets being used for killing people in Ukraine.
They are New Yorkers. Nothing exists outside of their bubble.
Yes, there is a small village in SE TX with the name of Boca Chica. Outside Brownsville.
Progress happens, Flores. Go back to Mexico if you want lack of progress.
Only a handful of people refused the offer. They said it wasn’t enough.
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Flores must have been one of them
My father worked at NASA in the ‘60s and ‘70s and we had a house right on Cocoa Beach. Now there’s a hotel there.
Things change when money comes to town. These people should stop whining and make some of that money or move…
When they say “It isn’t about the money”, it’s about the money.
All that money makes such a succulent sound.
I'm looking at a map and it looks like the far S.E. corner of Texas to me..........I'd be swimming if I went any further east. Sheesh
I’d throw in Galveston county, but you’re going to have to sell hard to convince me Cameron county is in SE Texas.
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