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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission voted unanimously Monday to pursue an exchange that would give 43 acres of Boca Chica State Park in Cameron County to Elon Musk’s SpaceX spacecraft company.
The commission was to have held a public hearing and vote on a proposal that 43 acres of Boca Chica State Park land be transferred to SpaceX, at the request of the company, to "expand its ...
The tentative land-swapping deal moved forward this week when the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission unanimously voted in favor of swapping 43 noncontiguous acres from Boca Chica State Park with ...
Boca Chica Beach is part of the 10,680-acre (43.2 km 2) Boca Chica tract of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. The tract is a former Texas state park located in the Boca Chica Subdelta separated from Mexico by the Rio Grande. The park was acquired by the state of Texas and opened in May 1994.
In January 2024, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announced a proposal to add 477 acres (1.93 km 2) to the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge via a swap of land currently owned by SpaceX, in order to allow SpaceX to become the owner of 43 acres (17 ha) of Boca Chica State Park land to expand their existing rocket launch facility at ...
By July 2014, SpaceX had purchased approximately 41 acres (170,000 m 2) and leased 57 acres (230,000 m 2) near Boca Chica Village and Boca Chica Beach [58] through a company named Dogleg Park LLC, a reference to the "dogleg" type of trajectory that rockets launched from Boca Chica will be required to follow.
The launch site is near the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge and Boca Chica State Park. The location is a prime habitat for wintering shorebirds and other wildlife, including ...
SpaceX has asked for the 43 acres of state park property to "expand its operational footprint ... TPWD schedules SpaceX Boca Chica land swap meeting; seeks public comment Skip to main content