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Houston Texans Chair and CEO Cal McNair, right, speaks alongside his wife and Texans Vice President of the Houston Texans Foundation, Hannah McNair, as the Houston Texans announces the development of a new, 83-acre headquarters and practice facility space named the \u2018Toro District\u2019 in the Bridgeland master-planned community in Northwest Harris County in Cypress, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. The project will included a 22-acre headquarters and training complex with plans to open the facility in 2029.<\/p>\n
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A recent court ruling invalidating an amendment to the Texas Constitution could complicate Harris County\u2019s plan for financing the Toro District <\/a>and send ripples through a network of little-known taxing districts the county formed prior to the ruling.\u00a0<\/p>\n The amendment, which voters approved as Proposition 2 in 2021, was framed as giving county reinvestment zones the ability to issue debt<\/a>. But some counties responded by creating these zones for the first time. Harris County has since created four and is negotiating with the Houston Texans and Howard Hughes to form a fifth to fund infrastructure for a new practice field and surrounding development in northwest Harris County.\u00a0<\/p>\n But state District Judge Jan Soifer\u2019s July 10 ruling in a lawsuit brought by a group of conservative organizations may frustrate those plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Soifer agreed with the plaintiffs\u2019 allegation that the ballot language used to describe the amendment failed to inform voters how the zones\u2019 investments would be paid for \u2013 namely, by issuing bonds.<\/p>\n MAP: Do you live in a reinvestment zone? Search your address to find out<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cTherefore,\u201d Soifer wrote, \u201cthe ballot language of Proposition 2 \u2026 omitted a chief feature of the amendment and misled the voters.\u201d<\/p>\n The lawsuit was brought against the Texas Secretary of State\u2019s Office by Texas Uniting for Reform and Freedom, Grassroots America \u2014 We the People PAC and the True Texas Project. The organizations warned the language was misleading in a letter one of their<\/a> lawyers sent state officials in August 2021, before the issue appeared on the ballot.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Attorney Garrett McMillan pointed to a \u201cnearly identical\u201d proposal voters rejected in 2011. That proposal, he wrote, made clear that the reinvestment zones would fund projects through property taxes, unlike the 2021 measure.\u00a0<\/p>\n McMillan warned that his clients intended to sue should the proposition be put before voters unchanged.<\/p>\n \u201cOur clients would prefer that Texas voters be informed of what they are voting on rather than misled and would like the wording of the proposition to be changed to reflect (its) effect,\u201d McMillan wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n Impact on Harris County\u00a0<\/p>\n