Round Rock suburbs or future Austin exurbs along US 79

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Since Samsung's agreement to build a third major northeast Austin plant, the sixty mile US Highway 79 corridor between its terminus (I-35 at Round Rock) and US 190 / Texas 36 at the rural town of Milano has become a battleground of property values speculation.  A group that relocated from California to Texas in recent years and rounded up some out of state institutional investment is trying to sign tenants for a regional logistics hub along US Highway 77 outside of little Rockdale, 

https://therealdeal.com/texas/austin/2023/07/27/xebec-holdings-to-build-50m-sf-logistics-campus-in-tiny-town-texas/

while Hutto is hoping to become an Austin light industrial exurb as well

https://therealdeal.com/texas/austin/2023/07/13/prologis-titan-lead-the-way-as-billions-could-come-to-hutto/

and on the northern horizon, Interstate 14 may close a triangle extend when it extends southeast from its current terminus at I-35 in Belton in order to reach Bryan/College Station/Brazos Valley, I-45 and I-69.

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Just not to confuse anyone since journalists refer to the Taylor plant as Samsung's second in Texas --

 

I realized that I could post to clarify that their copper fab opened in 1997 on Parmer Lane and their second fab opened next door in 2007.  Journalists would probably confuse people who don't need extra explanation if they called Samsung Taylor the third without taking space to explain that the first site is already home to not one but two.
 

They have tax breaks approved with Manor ISD for fabs 3 and 4 on that adjacent property.  They are also testing the federal demand to subsidize additional capacity with as many as nine future phases at the Taylor site just in case it's viable, and getting the paperwork moving.  Source for this particular idea was https://communityimpact.com/austin/pflugerville-hutto/2022/07/20/samsung-proposal-for-expansions-in-taylor-total-more-than-167-billion-and-8200-new-jobs/

 

 

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And finally here is why the three thousand acre regional logistics hub says it will have interstate access 

https://www.txdot.gov/projects/projects-studies/bryan/i14-corridor-study.html