• Kyle is one of Austin’s top booming suburbs,The JW Team

    Kyle is one of Austin’s top booming suburbs

    High-tech farms are popping up in the region, including in Kyle. Infarm’s new Kyle location will have about 30 employees and the capability to grow about 2.2 million salads a year. Perhaps nowhere in the budding metroplex is the manufacturing boom more pronounced than in Kyle, which is just south of

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  • Is SpaceX Going to Build in Austin?,The JW Team

    Is SpaceX Going to Build in Austin?

    The size of what Elon Musk‘s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. plans in Bastrop County, east of Austin, is coming into focus — and it appears to be massive. The company wants to construct a 520k-square-foot “shell building,” according to an Aug. 31 filing with the Texas Department of Licensing an

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  • Potential Semiconductor Factory coming to Lockhart area,The JW Team

    Potential Semiconductor Factory coming to Lockhart area

    Lockhart, the small city that is the seat of rural Caldwell County southeast of Austin, is probably best known as the barbecue capital of Texas. -ARNOLD WELLS Nearly a year after Central Texas was announced as the site for a “once-in-a-generation” semiconductor factory, another one is being planned

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