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The Boring Company's Prufrock-1 constructing a tunnel exit in Vegas. (The Boring Company/Twitter)
The Boring Company—Elon Musk’s tunnel construction company—is looking into a warehouse and manufacturing facility in Bastrop, east of Austin.
The Bastrop County Commissioners agenda for Monday notes that they’ll be discussing a permit the Boring Company has filed for an 80,000 square foot facility in West Bastrop. The Austin Business Journal reports the facility is at 130 Walker Watson Rd.
Plans for manufacturing at the site are unclear. The warehouse would connect to a parking lot, loading doc and a connection to a road that exits onto FM 1209. Additionally, job postings indicate that it may be used to develop “Prufrock,” a tunneling technology.
Prufrock, designed by the company, is a machine that launches from the surface and carries out underground mining. Currently, the Boring Company is aiming for a speed of 7 miles per day.
The ABJ reports that the company has been approved for permits for commercial research and development at the site. Other approved plans are 10 multi-family structures that have 30 bedrooms, 10 kitchens and a basketball court.
News of the warehouse follows other action the Boring Company has made in Central Texas, including filing permits for a research and development site in Bastrop County.
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Austin FC head coach Josh Wolff is here to stay as the Club announced he signed a three-year contract extension.
Wolff, who was previously an assistant coach for the U.S. Men's National Team, will coach Austin FC through the end of 2025 under the new contract.
Wolff has been the Austin FC head coach since November 2019. In the team's first year, some hoped to oust Wolff as the team was at the bottom of the Western Conference. But this year, the team is at the top, ranking No. 3.
“This is still a young, growing Club but seeing our vision for Austin FC come to life on and off the field has been one of the great honors of my career. My staff and I will keep working every day to represent the city, and to develop our team both competitively and as human beings. The best is yet to come," Wolff said.
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Austin police are investigating the killing of Moriah "Mo" Wilson after she was found with gunshot wounds inside an East Austin home.
Wilson, a gravel and mountain bike racer, was visiting Austin from Colorado in preparation for the Gravel Locos race on Saturday taking place in Hico, a small town 2 hours from Austin.
On Wednesday, her roommate came home and found Wilson unresponsive with "a lot of blood near her,” police said, on Maple Avenue near East 17th Street. Officers and EMS performed life-saving measures before she was declared deceased at 10:10 p.m.
The Travis County Medical Examiner's office conducted an autopsy and determined the official cause of death to be multiple gunshot wounds, and the manner of death was a homicide. It is being investigated as a suspicious death and as of Saturday, police said they have a person of interest.
Wilson, 25, recently had become a full-time biker after winning a slew of races in the past year.
This story was updated on May 15 to include that police have determined a person of interest.
