X has quietly relocated its official headquarters to a rural community just outside of Austin, Texas, according to new court filings.
On Monday, lawyers for Elon Musk asked a California judge to change the location of his ongoing lawsuit with former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who sued the billionaire in August over a canceled partnership with X (formerly known as Twitter).
A declaration from X real estate director Nicole Hollander claims the company’s HQ is now located in Bastrop, a small town that’s also home to SpaceX and The Boring Company. Last month, X updated a number of incorporation documents to reflect the Bastrop address, show exhibits filed by the company. Musk is requesting that litigation in the Lemon lawsuit be allowed to proceed in Texas.
In July, Musk announced that he would be moving the headquarters of X and SpaceX to Austin, Texas, an apparent response to a California law banning public schools from notifying parents about changes to their children’s gender identification. X shuttered its San Francisco office on September 13, according to Fortune and Hollander’s declaration, and is reportedly looking to sublease the 800,000 square-foot space. Earlier his month, Fortune reported that Bay Area employees are currently being shuffled between offices in San Jose and Palo Alto. No new location has officially been named until now.
In the declaration, Hollander claims X has 188 full-time employees in Texas, but didn’t specify how many are in Bastrop. Its new address is located at Building 2 in Hyperloop Plaza, a Musk-owned shopping center that includes a “Boring Bodega” grocery store, hair salon and pub. Court filings state that in April, X signed a three-year commercial lease on the property, making Musk his own landlord. While the company also has an office in Austin, “X has leased the property in Bastrop to be its official headquarters, and it will ultimately move its employees in the Austin office to the new Bastrop location,” Hollander added.
In July, X announced it was hiring a small number of trust and safety roles in Bastrop for a “Safety X Support Center.”
X has not yet responded to a request for comment.
In 2021, Musk began buying large swaths of land in Bastrop under an LLC called Gapped Bass. A constellation of buildings, housing modules and construction sites belonging to SpaceX and The Boring Company now sit alongside the Colorado River, and some of the town’s residents have protested the rapid development there. Earlier this year, The Boring Company was hit with two environmental fines over unpermitted tunneling and improper dumping of wastewater.
In July, Forbes reported that Musk had also opened a branch of his experimental Ad Astra school in Bastrop, and was enrolling preschool and elementary students for the upcoming school year.
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