“Webuild has 115 years of experience designing and building some of the worlds’ best-known projects and we are proud to have them as a leader on this historic project.”
The addition of Webuild helps us accomplish that goal,” said Carlos Aguilar, CEO of Texas Central. “Our goal is to put together a team of the best players in the world from each industry needed to bring this project to life. markets looking for safe, reliable, green and productive travel options, according to a release from Texas Central. The project will create a super-economy, connecting people in the 4th and 5th largest U.S. The 200 mph train would connect two of the largest cities in Texas, with a stop in the Brazos Valley along the way. Now Texas Central folks are hoping to snag federal funding from President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill, as we’ve previously noted-while also being late on paying these tax bills.DALLAS, Texas (KBTX) - The developers of the high-speed train between Houston and Dallas, Texas Central Railroad, has signed a $16 billion contract with Webuild, an industrial group that specializes in construction and civil engineering, to lead the civil construction team that will build the Texas passenger line. Texas Central has been talking up its planned highspeed rail line using shinkansen technology for more than a decade, but the company has seen repeated delays in making a 90-minute trip between Houston and Dallas possible as its backers have worked to raise money for the project.Īlthough they’d announced plans to transform Northwest Mall into a train station in late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the start of construction and triggered a round of layoffs in 2020. The counties filed the brief to weigh in on the Texas Supreme Court’s upcoming decision on the case, which may well be crucial to the project’s future since company officials have long insisted that eminent domain rights are crucial to being able to pull together the line. (We’ve asked Texas Central for their take on the matter, but haven’t received any response so far.)
Texas Central owes Harris County about $216,0 for the 47 parcels of land the company is listed as owning according to Harris County Appraisal District records. In the other cases, though, the counties are alleging that the company just hasn’t paid up yet. Ellis County noted in the brief that they had mistakenly given Texas Central tax breaks and that was the reason the company was late in their case. Harris and a slew of other counties that are on the planned bullet train route have now filed an amicus brief before the court over more than $600,000 in property taxes from 2021. Texas Central last June before reversing that decision in October after Miles petitioned for a reconsideration. The Texas Supreme Court had initially declined to weigh in on Miles vs.
The fact that the court agreed to hear the case at all was a defeat for the company. Jim Miles, the landowner behind the case, has taken his insistence that the company is not a railway and should not be allowed to use eminent domain rights to force Texas landowners to sell their property all the way to the high court, which heard the case back in January. The allegation comes as both sides of the debate over whether or not to run a bullet train line through a swathe of rural Texas to connect the two metroplexes await the Texas Supreme Court’s decision on Miles vs. Now a number of Texas counties contend that the company behind the planned 236-mile, Houston-to-Dallas highspeed rail line is behind on property taxes. The hits just keep on coming for Texas Central.
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