Pflugerville - Hutto Edition | March 2023

DEVELOPMENT BRIEFS

Projects underway in your community

Legal hold nearly cleared on former Perfect Game site

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BY CARSON GANONG

Although some legal steps are still pending, a 250-acre site north of Hwy. 79 in eastern Hutto is nearly free for future development. At a Feb. 2 meeting, Hutto City Council approved the Hutto Economic Development Corp.’s purchase of the property from its owner, Cottonwood Development Corp. Council also approved a $6 million sales tax agreement with HEDC to help fund the purchase. The land was previously intended to be the site of an $800 million development from baseball scouting company Perfect Game, but the com- pany announced in September 2021 that it would build in Cedar Park instead.

The sixth re station for Travis County Emergency Services District No. 2 is scheduled to be complete by September. (Brian Rash/Community Impact)

Fire station work delayed several months The timeline for Fire Station No. 6 in Pugerville has been extended and is now scheduled to be complete by September. BY BRIAN RASH as two years. Perkins said while building material costs have come down slightly, permitting delays with the city of Pugerville are the main reason for the extended timeline.

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It could be operational by November or Decem- ber, according to Nicholas Perkins, chief of Travis County Emergency Services District No. 2. Perkins initially said at a Feb. 22 groundbreaking event for the new re station, located at 17221 Weiss Lane, Pugerville, that it could be complete by June but added due to ongoing global supply chain issues, that timeline could stretch to as long

Perkins said once complete, the new sta- tion will have three bays and house an aerial apparatus, or ladder truck, as well as a pickup truck that can provide more maneuverability for certain calls. The construction cost estimate for the new station is about $7.4 million.

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25 acres near Red Bud Lane rezoned for industrial use

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BY BROOKE SJOBERG

Ocials rezoned a 25-acre parcel of land near East Old Settlers Boulevard and Red Bud Lane as a light-industrial planned unit development Feb. 9. Brad Wiseman, the director of the Round Rock Planning and Development Services Department, said the request to zone the property for industrial use came from the property owner. The rezoning will allow the property owner to build a warehouse or other type of indus- trial property to be leased by a future tenant, according to city documents. Development specs will not be available until the owner requests a permit to build, according to city documents.

When complete, the Sabey Data Center will have two buildings. (Brooke Sjoberg/Community Impact)

First Sabey Data Center building nears completion

BY BROOKE SJOBERG

second building. “Typically, what providers like us do is we’ll sell the rst building up to a certain percent- age,” he said. Noonan added that Sabey will wait to begin construction on the second building until a proportion of the rst building is leased out. The 535,000-square-foot facility’s operation will bring 20 jobs to the area. In return, as part

of an economic development agreement approved by Round Rock City Council in February, the city will pay $1 million in incen- tives that will reimburse Sabey for half of its demolition costs. The data company will also invest a total of $185 million in real property improvements and $5 million in business personal property as part of the agreement.

The rst of two Sabey Data Cen- ter buildings planned for a nearly 40-acre tract o SH 45 is expected to be complete by December. Mark Noonan, Sabey’s Aus- tin-based senior vice president of product development, said the facility, which broke ground last July, is about one-third of the way through construction, and a start date is not yet set for the

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PFLUGERVILLE HUTTO EDITION • MARCH 2023