The address multiple sources have reported they’ve chosen is 9219 Old Manor Rd, 78724. This is an awful location in the northeast Austin ETJ (not even in city limits) a block away from Highway 290 and close to nothing else. I couldn’t fathom working for Paramount in Hollywood and being told you have to work outside Manor, TX now. As a long-time Austinite who loves this city, fuck all these right-wing billionaires who think moving to shitty locations in the far-east Austin Metro area is a solution to any of their problems.
Just wait until the first time a production studio goes dark for a few days from a power outage. Texas is notorious for them.
Good luck guys.
I know you’re trying to make a joke, but we don’t really have more power outages than anywhere else. There are lengthy outages on record all over the country. The severity of that statewide outage in '21, though, lies squarely on the Republican leadership who have been appointing sycophants to the Public Utility Commission since 1994
“Texas ranks near or at the top of the United States for total weather-related and major power outages”
https://cw33.com/news/texas/new-study-finds-california-and-texas-lead-us-in-power-outages/
The states with the most reported weather-related power outages from 2000-2021 were: Texas (180), Michigan (132), California (129), North Carolina (97), and Pennsylvania (82)…however the populations of Texas and California are nearly three- to four-times larger than Michigan or North Carolina.
Yeah I call shenanigans on that statistic, because it doesn’t control for land area or population. Texas and California are bigger and more populous than all the other states, and so they have more outages. A localized outage in the Houston area and one in the Dallas area are both going to count against Texas here, but the distance from Houston to Dallas in New England covers 6 states
Y’all can downvote because you hate Texas politics, sure. I do too. That doesn’t change the actual data
I’m not sure I agree this is an awful location if you’re going to make a big studio campus. It’s not in Austin atm but it will be eventually (it’s currently surrounded) and 290/183 are useful veins. You say “outside Manor” like it’s also not ~10 miles from the capitol and downtown. In LA terms that’s basically nothing.
That said, as an eastsider, yeah fuck the billionaires generally and the Ellisons specifically.
They would move regardless.
They just needed a reason that doesn’t lose them too many customers.
