Archinect - News 2024-11-15T00:03:46-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/105791849/musk-will-build-spacex-launchpad-in-texas Musk will build SpaceX launchpad in Texas Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-08-04T15:36:00-04:00 >2014-08-12T21:42:34-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cz/czmqetlxhcstm2u0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Elon Musk&rsquo;s Space Exploration and Technologies Corp. plans to build the world&rsquo;s first commercial launchpad near Brownsville in South Texas [...] The state is providing $2.3 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund to bring an estimated 300 jobs to the launch site, which will bring about $85 million of capital investment into the economy [...] In the region near the proposed launch site, at Boca Chica Beach in the state&rsquo;s southernmost tip, two of five residents live in poverty.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>