Waco Tribune by Rhiannon Saegert 9/8/2021
SpaceX is planning a $150 million expansion of its McGregor test facility into a powerhouse churning out enough rockets to make humanity interplanetary.
Waco and McLennan County plan to chip in $6 million for the effort, assuming work wraps up by 2025, the company's McGregor payroll of 578 employees grows by 400, and SpaceX partners with the Mayborn Museum and a revamped city of Waco Bledsoe Miller center to promote science programs.
Sending people to Mars is not on the list of requirements for the Waco-McLennan County Economic Development Corp. contribution, but it is the long-range goal driving SpaceX.
SpaceX plans to start work this year on a rocket production facility covering about 50,000 square feet near its existing rocket testing operation, said Kris Collins, a Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce vice president. She said she does not yet know the exact location, but the company is expected to expand the facility as production grows.
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