SpaceX is quietly bulking up its Bastrop, Texas, footprint with a new giant on the way: a $20 million, 157,321-square-foot structure the state calls a parking garage. The planned building, larger than many H‑E‑B supermarkets, would sit inside the tight cluster of Musk-linked companies along FM 1209 east of Austin. Construction is listed as already underway this year and stretching into early 2027, and the paperwork leaves an open question about whether this will be pure parking, staff support space, or something that edges into the campus’s manufacturing operations.
What state records show
State project filings list the job, under file number TABS2026008150, as a "New parking garage for Bastrop facility" at 888 FM 1209 with an estimated price tag of $20,000,000 and a total of 157,321 square feet. The registry pegs February 1, 2025, as the official start date and January 7, 202,7, as the projected completion, and it identifies SpaceX as the owner. The project is listed as privately funded on private land and includes contact details for the filer, according to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Where it sits in Musk's Bastrop compound
The planned garage site lies across from Hyperloop Plaza, the retail and office strip that already houses The Boring Company and the relocated X headquarters, placing the new structure squarely inside Musk’s growing Bastrop cluster. Local reporting notes that the broader campus functions as a major Starlink manufacturing hub, turning out user terminals and components, which helps explain the recent wave of large-scale filings along FM 1209, as reported by MySA.
Why SpaceX is expanding here
State economic incentives and SpaceX’s production needs have already pushed the company to grow in Bastrop. In March, the governor’s office announced a $17.3 million Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant tied to a roughly $280 million expansion that will add semiconductor R&D and advanced packaging at the site. That broader initiative is expected to add about one million square feet and more than 400 jobs as SpaceX scales up Starlink production, according to a March press release from the Office of the Governor.
Local infrastructure and job questions
With more Musk-owned operations landing along FM 1209, local officials and planners have been flagging basic infrastructure needs, from wastewater upgrades to traffic management along a corridor that suddenly feels a lot busier. Bastrop-area reporting and county leaders have pointed to roadwork and utility improvements that are already in progress or under study to support new industrial and office uses near Hyperloop Plaza. Community Impact has detailed recent county transportation and utility projects tied to that development.
What we still don’t know
Although the TDLR listing labels the project a parking garage, the documents and reporting do not clarify whether the building will be strictly for vehicles, a covered manufacturing or operations space, or some hybrid of the two, a distinction that matters to local planners and neighbors. MySA has noted that ambiguity and reported that it asked SpaceX for comment; the company had not provided a public explanation at the time of reporting.
The registration is one more sign of Bastrop’s rapid shift into a Musk-linked industrial corridor. As work continues toward 2027, officials, residents, and nearby businesses will be watching new permit filings and traffic studies to see exactly how this mega garage fits into the region’s next chapter.
