The Woodland Hills of Texas; Walker, Grimes, Leon, Trinity, San Jacinto and Madison counties are exploding with new residents and industrial growth. Why? First, location, location, location. Second, resources like water, oil and gas resources, electrical grid, timber and transportation-I45 and the new I-14. Third, High Tech leaving California and coming to Texas because it is relatively cheap.
Terra Fab, in Grimes County on Gibbons Creek Lake is being developed on 22,000+ acres of an old coal mine and election generation location. Elon Musk, wisely, purchased this property and is developing the largest industrial building in the WORLD. This development is 28 miles west of Huntsville, Texas. The pathway from Houston to Terra Fab runs right through Huntsville on Highway 30.
Data Centers are developing throughout the region. This has become controversial due to the subsidies and the stress it places on the electric grid, ground water and farmland. Solar farms are replacing fat cattle on the pastures at an alarming rate subsidized by federal subsidies.
The oil and gas industry is going strong with new natural gas finds and the new markets being created for power generation. Natural Gas and the turbine generator is the cheapest and most abundant way to produce power. Nuclear power may become safe and affordable and vast sums will come to Texas A&M to research the initiative.
Texas A&M and Sam Houston State University will continue to grow to train the next generation of American workers in the sciences and trades.
In my 40+ year real estate investment career I have never witnessed as much opportunity to be a part of an amazing transformation. I hope we protect our way of life while enabling and supporting these awesome investments and use of resources. My grandfather, an Aggie engineer, taught me that we cannot stand in the way of progress. We can only join it and manage it and prosper by it.
Ben Bius
