{"id":72887,"date":"2025-12-02T14:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72887\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:24:17","slug":"elon-musk-texas-town-growth-tests-sway-with-bastrop-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72887\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Texas Town Growth Tests Sway With Bastrop Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, has already shown that when a city\u2019s rules won\u2019t bend to his will, he\u2019ll create a new city and new rules. That\u2019s how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-04-30\/elon-musk-s-spacex-is-forming-a-city-government-in-starbase-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Starbase<\/a>, the self-governing town built around SpaceX\u2019s southern Texas launch site, came to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">He\u2019s had a relatively easier time building his other company town about 350 miles north in Bastrop County, where the local government has (mostly) gone along with the billionaire\u2019s vision so far. The more than 10-square-mile Musk compound known as Snailbrook is home to his tunnel-drilling venture the Boring Company, X and a manufacturing facility for SpaceX, amidst a handful of amenities for employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, has already shown that when a city\u2019s rules won\u2019t bend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36422,7771,1494,437,36420,36421,406,19852,973,2220,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-72887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chamber-of-commerce-the","tag-cities","tag-construction","tag-economic-development","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-executives","tag-government","tag-industries","tag-infrastructure","tag-science","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}