Bay Area Edition | April 2025

Exploration Park coming to Johnson Space Center From the cover

The overview

Exploration Park The development will sit just outside of the fence of NASA’s Johnson space Center in the Clear Lake area.

Mars scape

NASA Johnson Space Center

Exploration Park, a new hub for research and manufacturing related to sending humans back to space, has seen progress in recent months. Its cornerstone project, the $200 million Texas A&M Space Institute, began construction in February, ocials from the college conrmed in March. The project will feature the country’s largest lunar and Mars scapes. The rest of the park, which could begin construction in the second quarter of 2025, will consist of nearly two dozen buildings totaling more than 1 million square feet of space. NASA ocials have said they hope to see a mixture of private, public and academic partnerships geared toward manufacturing, research and testing, among other focuses, in the pursuit of human space ight. The American Center for Manufacturing & Innovation, or ACMI, is helping build out the site, and Chicago-based real estate company JLL is leading the leasing eort, Community Impact previously reported.

Parking Future roads Buildings

RENDERINGS COURTESY OF TEXAS A&M

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Lunar scape

SOURCES: AMERICAN CENTER FOR MANUFACTURING & INNOVATION, JLL, JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, TEXAS A&MCOMMUNITY IMPACT N