{"id":364448,"date":"2026-07-07T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364448\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:04:09","slug":"tesla-leases-683k-sf-industrial-building-in-austin-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364448\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Leases 683K sf Industrial Building in Austin Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk\u2019s electric car manufacturing company Tesla recently leased a 682,000-square-foot speculative industrial building in the Austin Hills Commerce Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The industrial building, which sits at 11801 Decker Lake Road, is set to be completed by January 2027. The project is helmed by Sansone Group and Principal Asset Management, and Musk\u2019s Tesla is set to occupy the second phase of the development, according to reporting from the Austin Business Journal<\/a>. The total size of the Austin Hills Commerce Center will be 1.4 million square feet when complete. It\u2019s currently unclear what Tesla will utilize the space for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The development highlights the increased demand for massive industrial buildings in the Austin area. According to the outlet, there are at least a dozen speculative buildings that span upwards of 400,000 square feet in various stages of development, from finished to the early planning phases.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Throughout the Austin Metro and across Texas, large swaths of real estate are rapidly becoming Musk\u2019s playground<\/a>. The world\u2019s richest man has 2.2 million square feet of space around Austin on lease, and more than 10 million square feet that he owns and built.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Musk company portfolio includes a reported 112,000-square-foot sublease at the Seaholm Power Plant in downtown for xAI and the airport-adjacent Gigafactory<\/a>, which spans over 10 million square feet. A $20 billion Terafab campus, that would feature 2 million square feet for research and development, is in the planning stages.<\/p>\n

Bastrop<\/a> County<\/a> is home to several Musk-owned business\u2019 buildings, most of which are placed along country road FM 1209. Musk is also building an Optimus humanoid robot production facility near the Gigafactory. Musk\u2019s companies have spanned the Austin area\u2019s entire suburban space, from as far north as Taylor to as far south as Kyle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Areas outside of Central Texas within the Musk companies include Cameron County, which is the home of Musk\u2019s Starbase that functions as a manufacturing hub as well as the headquarters of SpaceX. The Starbase facility also includes the company\u2019s primary launch site, which was recently relieved of local legal pressure centering around the company\u2019s ability to shut down public Boca Chica Beach for launches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2014 Hunter Cooke<\/p>\n

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