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Is it true that the main hurdle holding this deal up is that COCS lacks a convention center?

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Probably not. But I certainly could see COCS using that as an excuse to build one.

jac4 said:

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Is it true that the main hurdle holding this deal up is that COCS lacks a convention center?

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This is gold

jac4 said:

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Is it true that the main hurdle holding this deal up is that COCS lacks a convention center?

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tu ag said:

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I am not worried about those who are retired. Their property taxes are frozen.
I'm concerned about younger generations who already can't afford homes in the area and the "American dream" is really just that...a dream.

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If my home doubles in value, it will definitely be for sale right away, and will move an hour north to the farm. Which is already in the plans but it may speed up our timeline.

Brazos County tells me my home is worth 145% of what I bought it for in 2019.
If it doubles in the same time frame from today, I won't have a choice but to sell, because the taxes will be too high to be able to pay.

All the properties you would potentially buy have gone up too. So it's a net zero gain.

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curry97 said:

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tu ag said:

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I am not worried about those who are retired. Their property taxes are frozen.
I'm concerned about younger generations who already can't afford homes in the area and the "American dream" is really just that...a dream.

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If my home doubles in value, it will definitely be for sale right away, and will move an hour north to the farm. Which is already in the plans but it may speed up our timeline.

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How far out of town is too far to commute to BCS? Just wondering.

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Lots of people live in SoCo and commute to Houston.

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curry97 said:

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tu ag said:

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I am not worried about those who are retired. Their property taxes are frozen.
I'm concerned about younger generations who already can't afford homes in the area and the "American dream" is really just that...a dream.

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If my home doubles in value, it will definitely be for sale right away, and will move an hour north to the farm. Which is already in the plans but it may speed up our timeline.

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How far out of town is too far to commute to BCS? Just wondering.

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If there were high speed rail between Houston and Dallas with a stop in Roan's Prairie, it would only be a 30 minute commute from Houston (plus a ten minute bus ride) to the to Terafab in Carlos and only 45 minutes from Dallas.

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oklaunion said:

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curry97 said:

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tu ag said:

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I am not worried about those who are retired. Their property taxes are frozen.
I'm concerned about younger generations who already can't afford homes in the area and the "American dream" is really just that...a dream.

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If my home doubles in value, it will definitely be for sale right away, and will move an hour north to the farm. Which is already in the plans but it may speed up our timeline.

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How far out of town is too far to commute to BCS? Just wondering.

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If there were high speed rail between Houston and Dallas with a stop in Roan's Prairie, it would only be a 30 minute commute from Houston (plus a ten minute bus ride) to the to Terafab in Carlos and only 45 minutes from Dallas.

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maybe if they tunnel it...

Wow. We should contact someone who has been successful in building one to help. Say, Gavin Newsome?

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Wow. We should contracts someone who has been successful in building one to help. Say, Gavin Newsome?

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As I wrote in another post on the subject...

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Yet we are already behind on infrastructure (roads, power grid, etc) and housing. We are close to having problems with water.

I see few plans to solve these problems as they exist, even less as they will exist in 20 years. All I see is rising taxes and more glory projects.

To me, this is the 2nd priority after safety of the population, for local government. What will COCS do about it all?

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Your concerns are well-founded, but I do believe we are in a better position to absorb a project like this than the Taylor/Hutto area was.

Respectfully

Yancy '95 Place 5

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I grew up in this area. In fact, I drove right by Samsung construction to get to my parent's house. In the early years there was literally nothing around the construction area except farming. Taylor HS is about 3-5 miles down the road to the loop around Taylor. There have been 2 subdivisions added by the HS but the plant is still surrounded by farm land.

Hutto started growing when they put the toll road through the West side of town. They had a 20 year start on Taylor in terms of business and housing growth. When I graduated Hutto was 1A and Taylor was 3A. Hutto has been 6A for a couple of realignment cycles and Taylor is 4A. The area has always had a significant Hispanic population. When I graduated it was approx 60% white/35% Hispanic/5% black. I can see where families in town were taxed out of their homes. Most of them probably needed work inside too. Hutto named streets after family names from its recent past.

Taylor and Thrall are in the most eastern part of Williamson county and are still pretty rural. However they are extending a toll road towards this area and I expect to see the same development Hutto had.

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Bob Yancy said:

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As I wrote in another post on the subject...

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Yet we are already behind on infrastructure (roads, power grid, etc) and housing. We are close to having problems with water.

I see few plans to solve these problems as they exist, even less as they will exist in 20 years. All I see is rising taxes and more glory projects.

To me, this is the 2nd priority after safety of the population, for local government. What will COCS do about it all?

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Your concerns are well-founded, but I do believe we are in a better position to absorb a project like this than the Taylor/Hutto area was.

Respectfully

Yancy '95 Place 5

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I grew up in this area. In fact, I drove right by Samsung construction to get to my parent's house. In the early years there was literally nothing around the construction area except farming. Taylor HS is about 3-5 miles down the road to the loop around Taylor. There have been 2 subdivisions added by the HS but the plant is still surrounded by farm land.

Hutto started growing when they put the toll road through the West side of town. They had a 20 year start on Taylor in terms of business and housing growth. When I graduated Hutto was 1A and Taylor was 3A. Hutto has been 6A for a couple of realignment cycles and Taylor is 4A. The area has always had a significant Hispanic population. When I graduated it was approx 60% white/35% Hispanic/5% black. I can see where families in town were taxed out of their homes. Most of them probably needed work inside too. Hutto named streets after family names from its recent past.

Taylor and Thrall are in the most eastern part of Williamson county and are still pretty rural. However they are extending a toll road towards this area and I expect to see the same development Hutto had.

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I appreciate that background. When my family returned from Iran, we came home to Texas, in Katy. The Grand Parkway didn't exist. My friends and I would take our shotguns and .22 rifles and go plinking where Cinco Ranch is today. Fulshear was a few farmhouses.

There is something lost when we grow, no doubt. I guess where I'm at is growth is inevitable and cannot be stopped. Our children and grandchildren deserve their shot at prosperity too. The best we can do is work together to protect our sense of home and pride in community- and grow smart.

Respectfully

Yancy '95

Bob Yancy said:

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TAMU1990 said:

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Bob Yancy said:

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tu ag said:

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As I wrote in another post on the subject...

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Yet we are already behind on infrastructure (roads, power grid, etc) and housing. We are close to having problems with water.

I see few plans to solve these problems as they exist, even less as they will exist in 20 years. All I see is rising taxes and more glory projects.

To me, this is the 2nd priority after safety of the population, for local government. What will COCS do about it all?

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Your concerns are well-founded, but I do believe we are in a better position to absorb a project like this than the Taylor/Hutto area was.

Respectfully

Yancy '95 Place 5

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I grew up in this area. In fact, I drove right by Samsung construction to get to my parent's house. In the early years there was literally nothing around the construction area except farming. Taylor HS is about 3-5 miles down the road to the loop around Taylor. There have been 2 subdivisions added by the HS but the plant is still surrounded by farm land.

Hutto started growing when they put the toll road through the West side of town. They had a 20 year start on Taylor in terms of business and housing growth. When I graduated Hutto was 1A and Taylor was 3A. Hutto has been 6A for a couple of realignment cycles and Taylor is 4A. The area has always had a significant Hispanic population. When I graduated it was approx 60% white/35% Hispanic/5% black. I can see where families in town were taxed out of their homes. Most of them probably needed work inside too. Hutto named streets after family names from its recent past.

Taylor and Thrall are in the most eastern part of Williamson county and are still pretty rural. However they are extending a toll road towards this area and I expect to see the same development Hutto had.

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I appreciate that background. When my family returned from Iran, we came home to Texas, in Katy. The Grand Parkway didn't exist. My friends and I would take our shotguns and .22 rifles and go plinking where Cinco Ranch is today. Fulshear was a few farmhouses.

There is something lost when we grow, no doubt. I guess where I'm at is growth is inevitable and cannot be stopped. Our children and grandchildren deserve their shot at prosperity too. The best we can do is work together to protect our sense of home and pride in community- and grow smart.

Respectfully

Yancy '95

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As I have mentioned several times in the past many have different ideas of what it is to prosper.

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Hutto started growing when they put the toll road through the West side of town.

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What I gather from all this is, we need to start working on that Gibbons to Huntsville toll road. Let all the new transplants get a good taste of East Texas Walmart life.

We made it out to Yankee Tavern again tonight. I gotta say that's the best bang for your buck in this area. I hope that place does not go anywhere. Good food. Good beer. Great people

I see a full rainbow directly over Gibbons Creek...it must be a sign








the pertier one…

Posted on the OB:

https://www.basenor.com/blogs/news/tesla-spacex-launch-terafab-119b-chip-megafactory

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Tesla and SpaceX have confirmed a landmark joint venture that could reshape the future of autonomous driving, humanoid robotics, and AI compute infrastructure. The project, named Terafab, is a shared semiconductor manufacturing facility being built in Grimes County, Texas - and the numbers behind it are staggering.

Whole Mars Catalog's cryptic "So it begins" post on X was the first public signal. Within hours, details emerged through SpaceX's S-1 IPO filing, confirming what many had suspected: Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI are formally pooling resources to solve one of the most critical bottlenecks in Elon Musk's empire - chip supply.

What Is Terafab?

Terafab is a joint semiconductor fabrication complex proposed for Grimes County, Texas, near the Gibbons Creek Reservoir. It is a three-way venture between SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI - three companies that share a chairman and a common dependency on advanced AI chips. The facility's stated purpose is to produce chips that power Tesla's FSD autonomous driving stack, Optimus humanoid robot development, AI data center infrastructure, and SpaceX's orbital compute systems.
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What Comes Next

The immediate next milestone is a public hearing on June 3, 2026, in Grimes County, where local officials will consider a property tax abatement agreement for the Terafab site. That vote will be an early indicator of how smoothly the project can move through its regulatory phase.

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There is more, as they say, at the link.