Starbase, Texas, headquarters of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is officially a city following a resident vote. Most Starbase residents, primarily SpaceX employees, voted in favor of incorporation. Some ...

SpaceX is requesting an election to decide if its Starship rocket site should be incorporated as a city in South Texas. The company is developing and launching the world’s most powerful rocket ...

With the incorporation of Starbase, the area now has a city council, mayor and commissioners. Voters unanimously elected a mayor, Bobby Peden, who works for SpaceX, according to his LinkedIn profile.

A South Texas community, mostly made up of SpaceX employees, voted 212 to 6 in favor of establishing a new city called Starbase. By Hank Sanders Members of a South Texas community that has served ...

A special election in Cameron County, Texas has officially established Elon Musk's SpaceX facility as "Starbase," a new city, with voters overwhelmingly approving the incorporation measure by a ...

City leaders held their first public meetings this week since voters approved the South Texas city’s incorporation.

Voters walk to a polling place at SpaceX’s South Texas facility to cast a ballot in the Starbase incorporation vote on May 3, 2025. Credit: Michael Gonzalez for The Texas Newsroom ...

Then in December 2024, the county received an incorporation petition for Starbase. Now, the overwhelming majority of voters—many of whom are SpaceX employees or relatives of the aerospace ...

More than three-fifths of the 283 voters eligible to cast ballots Saturday work for SpaceX, according ... a child and is concerned that the incorporation of Starbase will have devastating impacts ...

Company towns have persisted and the SpaceX employees living in Starbase appear poised to establish the newest one. What they hope to accomplish through incorporation will likely have a lot to do ...

Starbase, the SpaceX site, is likely Texas’ next city. What happens next? City leaders, who will be elected in May, will have just a short window to decide what services to provide, like police ...