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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Get your globe out.
The correct Texas language is that Boca Chica is in far South Texas.
And the reality is, there's not a God damn person on this site that really gives a damn except you........Get a life or get a pet dude!.....I would recommend a cat............Sheesh!
You look at a map. Brownsville TX in in the south Texas on the eastern side of Texas. Now maybe you don’t call it South east TX but I do. Boca Chica is almost part of Brownsville if you look at a map. Just because some people and maps call SE TX a little further north is a lot nick picky.
It’s not in South East Texas.
It’s in the Valley.
Of my 5 plus generations that have lived in Rio Honda, none of us call it SOuth East Texas.
It’s the Valley.
And there have always been some real loonie characters in Boca Chica.
It’s not in South East Texas.
It’s in the Valley.
Of my 5 plus generations that have lived in Rio Hondo, none of us call it SOuth East Texas.
It’s the Valley.
And there have always been some real loonie characters in Boca Chica.
Distance from Brownsville, Tx to Beaumont, Texas is 437 miles by highway.
Take a Uber if you want.
agreed
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