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HPE relocates aviation department to Conroe airport Conroe City Council mem- bers unanimously approved a $465,072 grant contract Dec. 9 with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. The economic develop- Airport, according to meeting information. HPE is leasing a 19,000-square-foot hangar at Galaxy FBO. “As part of our relocation of HPE’s headquarters to a new campus in Spring, Airport is a short and easy commute to our new offices, and both the city of Conroe BY ANNA LOTZ
and the Conroe airport. “It kind of boiled down to the offerings that were avail- able at each, and factoring in the convenience of a smaller airport and not having to deal with traffic that could be in line waiting to take off or land,” Scheiner said. Information from the city indicates the project will create 11 jobs.
and Montgomery County have been great partners throughout this process.” Danielle Scheiner, execu- tive director of the Conroe Economic Development Council, said HPE had been deciding between the George Bush Intercontinental Airport
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“This is something we have sort of actively been looking to do as a recruitment initia- tive is to try to bring more of those aircraft facilities here,” Scheiner said.
ment incentive is in regards to HPE relocating its aviation department from San Jose, California, to the Con- roe-North Houston Regional
Texas, we also relocated our aviation department to the Houston area,” HPE spokes- person Adam Bauer said in a Dec. 16 statement. “Conroe
1,623-acre property on FM1486 slated for single-family, commercial development
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will eventually connect Houston to College Station, was completed in March, Community Impact Newspaper previously reported. “The Aggie Expressway is the driving force for land sales in the [Hwy.] 249 corridor,” said Joe Burke, vice president of NewQuest Prop- erties’ Land Advisory Group, in the release. “This property was bought
by an investor who saw the long-term growth trajectory.” Infrastructure work is slated to begin in late 2022 with 1-3 acres of single-family development sites to begin construction first on the eastern side of the property, accord- ing to the release. The land fronting FM 1486 is reserved for commercial development.
An unnamed Houston investor bought a 1,623-acre property on FM 1486 across from BlueJack National, a residential golf commu- nity, according to a Dec. 27 release from NewQuest Properties. The land was bought near the future extension of Hwy. 249. Segment 1B of the project, which
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