The Abatement Register

Texas incentive agreements, read out of the contracts

Texas cities and counties file their economic development agreements with the Comptroller as scanned PDFs. This is what is inside them — the contractual completion dates, the capital commitments and the repayment terms that the state's published summary does not carry.

UPDATED 18 SEPTEMBER 2026 303 AGREEMENTS READ IN FULL 4,433 IN THE STATE REGISTRY

4,433agreements filed with the state

303read page by page

58with a build-by date before 2028

14large enough to matter to a builder

What this is

Every Chapter 380 and 381 agreement in Texas is a public document. Eighty-four per cent of them are scans — pictures of paper, with no searchable text. The state publishes a spreadsheet alongside them carrying a one-line summary and a single dollar figure, and that figure is sometimes wrong by a factor of ten or a hundred.

What it never carries is the date the developer contractually committed to having the project finished. That date is on page two or three of the agreement, and it is the field that tells you when something has to happen rather than merely that it was promised.

Completion dates before 2028 — from the agreements read so far

Build-by	Developer	Project	Site	Jobs	Committed
30 Sep 2026	Foul Play Sports Bar & GrillAlvin	Restaurant build-out cost breakdown	—	30	$1,169,000
30 Dec 2026	Ariji BESS, LLCHoward County	100 MW / 2-hour battery storage	18 ac	—	$90,000,000
31 Dec 2026	Westlake Pipe & FittingsWichita County	160,000 sf plant, four extrusion lines	—	38	$128,922,976
31 Dec 2026	Midway Development GroupSan Marcos	Hotel and mixed-use	—	—	$40,000,000
1 Jan 2027	Lineage Logistics, LLCLaredo	Cold storage trade breakdown	39 ac	77	$78,800,000
1 Jan 2027	NVIDIA CorporationIrving · via Mellanox Technologies	Facility expansion	8.4 ac	—	not stated
29 Mar 2027	Venu Holding CorporationMcKinney · Notes Live, Inc.	Entertainment venue	—	—	$44,000,000*
31 Mar 2027	Weir Minerals U.S., Inc.Fort Worth · Weir Group	Tenant improvement	—	67	$3,400,000
Apr 2027 calc	Faith Technologies, Inc.El Paso County	Chapter 381 program agreement	48 ac	200	$52,500,000
30 Apr 2027	Outdoor Wireless Networks LLCRichardson · Amphenol	Tenant improvement, retention grant	—	32	$2,250,000
1 May 2027	1Finity Americas Inc.Richardson	Facility	—	500	$16,250,000
31 Aug 2027	Costco Wholesale CorporationHaltom City	Warehouse club	15.3 ac	103	$25,000,000
31 Oct 2027	Vuelve a la Vida MariscosBaytown	Restaurant	1.9 ac	70	$3,000,000
31 Dec 2027	Celestica LLCRichardson · Celestica Inc.	Electronics manufacturing	—	2,273	$300,000,000
31 Dec 2027	Compal ElectronicsTaylor · two agreements	Electronics manufacturing	—	900	$200,000,000
31 Dec 2027	SRB Mesquite, LLCMesquite · SRB Holdings	Amended and restated 380 agreement	18.7 ac	—	$25,000,000
31 Dec 2027	Texas Roadhouse of BaytownBaytown · Texas Roadhouse, Inc.	Restaurant	—	80 FTE	$10,000,000

Committed capital is the figure the contract commits, never the incentive the government pays; the two are never added together. calc marks a deadline the contract expresses as a duration from its effective date, computed here and shown to the month rather than the day. * Venu Holding's figure is the state's registry amount rather than a contract capital figure, and that deal is filed twice — counted once here.

Forty-four further agreements in this window are omitted: a mural grant, four separate water-and-sewer-tap agreements for single house lots, an exterior repaint itemised down to $239.38 of wood siding. They are real and they are in the file. Knowing which ones to leave out is most of the work.

A promise is not a project

The registry records what was committed. It has no mechanism for recording what happened — across all 4,433 agreements, fewer than one and a half per cent ever record an extension, which is not a plausible completion rate for construction. So commitments are checked against an independent record of physical reality.

Hopkins County, worked end to end: five utility-scale agreements matched against ERCOT's November 2026 resource adequacy report, by county rather than by company name, so that the set is complete and an absence means something.

Developer	Committed	Build by	On the grid	Status
Bright Arrow Solar	$380,000,000	31 Dec 2024	300.0 MW solar, in service 2025 100.0 MW storage, 2023	operating
Stampede Solar	$284M solar $37M storage	31 Dec 2025	255.0 MW solar, in service 2025 70.0 MW storage, 2023	operating
Pine Forest Hybrid I	$160,000,000	31 Dec 2025	200.0 MW storage, in service 2025	operating
Pine Forest Solar I	$350,000,000	31 Dec 2025	301.6 MW solar, in service 2025	synchronised, not yet commercial
BT Solterra Solar	$100M minimum $140M target	31 Dec 2025	—	no grid resource

ERCOT reports an in-service year rather than a date, so no overrun can be measured in months from it. BT Solterra has no solar or storage resource in Hopkins County under that name in any category; two Hopkins resources carry no agreement in the registry and one of them could be the same project under a different name. That is a possibility, not a finding, and no conclusion is drawn here about whether it was built.

How it is read

Located, never computed. Every figure is quoted from the agreement and carries the page of the scan it came from. A field the document does not state is left empty rather than estimated, and a date expressed as a duration is marked as derived with its clause shown.
Checked against itself. Where an agreement itemises its costs, the line items are summed and compared against the total the state filed. On the Frisco stadium agreement, fifteen items read off a scan come to $182,000,000 against a filed $182,000,000. On Lineage Logistics, fifteen items land within a tenth of a per cent.
Errors shown, not corrected. The state's record has BT Solterra at $1.4 billion where the contract commits $100 million minimum. It has Celestica at $3 million where the contract commits $300 million. Both figures are published here side by side rather than one quietly replacing the other.
Scope stated every time. 303 agreements of 4,433. This is a sample of what has been read, not a complete picture of Texas, and it says so on every page.

Who

One person, reading contracts. That is why they are read carefully, and why every number here can be traced back to a page.

Tell me the counties you work in

I will pull the agreements in your footprint — the completion dates, the capital committed, the terms — and send them over. No charge for the first one.

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