(cont'd from yesterday's post)
From a coastal paradise, Boca Chica has been transformed into a technologically cutting edge rocket launch site of global significance with perpetual lights and noise. Some residents object, but not all of them. A lot of new money has definitely flowed.
Most people spoke in support of SpaceX at that 2012 public meeting. Hundreds of new jobs would be created in a region that needed them. And there was the thrill that SpaceX always creates for "a new and exciting era in space exploration."
The company would like to be a good neighbor. Last week Elon Musk announced that $20 million will be donated to county schools and another $10 million donated to nearby Brownsville TX for downtown renovation. The wave of job creation continues as well. In the next couple years they will hire several thousand more people.
But the burly presence of SpaceX is disturbing the community at a new, higher level now.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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