Austin's metro area registered $793.1 million in new construction across 223 projects totaling nearly 9.9 million square feet with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation between August 3 and September 2, 2026. According to ATX Things analysis of state and city filings, Austin, Texas remains the epicenter, but Georgetown, Kyle, and Taylor are pulling in some of the single biggest checks — a Samsung supplier's chemical plant, a community college campus, and a county municipal complex among them.
How much did Austin's metro area register in new construction this month?
According to ATX Things analysis of Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) project registrations, developers, school districts, and manufacturers filed 223 projects worth a combined $793,122,957 across Travis, Williamson, and Hays counties between August 3 and September 2, 2026 — a 30-day registered-date window. Those projects account for roughly 9,918,554 square feet of new and renovated space, from a Samsung-chain semiconductor supplier's plant in Taylor to a downtown Google office buildout.
Austin city limits alone claimed 117 of those 223 projects (52%) and $283 million of the total — but the single biggest checks this month were written outside the city: a $101 million Austin Community College building in Kyle, an $85.8 million chemical plant in Taylor, and a $60 million county government complex in Georgetown. Renovation and alteration filings (148 projects) outnumbered ground-up new construction (73) roughly two to one, a sign of a metro still leaning hard into tenant buildouts and expansions alongside fresh ground-breaks.
Method note (read this before the numbers below): TDLR's estimated_cost field is filed once per registered project, which makes it the cleanest spine for a metro-wide total — unlike city permit systems, which stamp a project's full valuation on every sub-permit tied to it (see the deduplication section below). We excluded exactly one TDLR filing from these totals: "Carmel East Phase 4 — Amenity Center" in Pflugerville, registered at an implausible $529,918,059 for a 2.79-million-square-foot clubhouse building — fifty times the cost-per-square-foot of its sibling phase filed the same day, and geocoded to a zip code (75660, East Texas) that doesn't match its own address. We also excluded the square-footage (not the cost) of two filings — a Tesla "North Campus Manufacturing" registration listing 69.78 million square feet on a $50,000 project, and an Austin Archery Club renovation listing 2.57 million square feet on the same nominal $50,000 — both almost certainly data-entry errors in the source filings, not real building sizes. Every other figure below is the data as filed.
The 10 biggest projects registered this month
| # | Project | City | Est. Cost | Sq. Ft. | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ACC Hays Campus — Building 5000 | Kyle | $101,000,000 | 136,300 | Austin Community College District |
| 2 | T-Project (Soulbrain phosphoric acid plant) | Taylor | $85,800,000 | 37,495 | Soulbrain TX LLC |
| 3 | Texas Municipal Center (TMC) | Georgetown | $60,000,000 | 83,400 | Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool |
| 4 | Northland Project | Pflugerville | $60,000,000 | 166,898 | USRLP Pflugerville II Building 8 Owner, LLC |
| 5 | Green Point Bldg 3 | Georgetown | $42,000,000 | 753,481 | GTX Land Holdings LLC |
| 6 | East Austin 7th Street Hotel | Austin | $34,000,000 | 86,797 | BCP-ESK Concho, LP |
| 7 | 601 W 2nd — PH2A (Sail Tower, Google buildout) | Austin | $25,000,000 | 68,875 | Cousins Block 185 LLC |
| 8 | Aalo Advanced Manufacturing — Crosspoint Bldg 1 | Georgetown | $25,000,000 | 204,350 | DRI JS Georgetown I, LLC |
| 9 | LASA High School | Austin | $21,330,000 | 108,000 | Austin ISD |
| 10 | Deerpark Middle School Additions & Renovations | Austin | $20,000,000 | 35,000 | Round Rock ISD |
Two of those ten are quietly some of the most newsworthy filings of the year. Soulbrain TX LLC — a South Korean chemical supplier to Samsung's Taylor semiconductor fab — registered an $85.8 million phosphoric-acid plant at the RCR Taylor Logistics Park, part of an investment reported at up to $575 million once fully built out. And Cousins Properties' $25 million buildout at 601 W 2nd Street is Google's own office renovation inside downtown's 35-story Sail Tower — the company leases the entire building through 2038.
Where the money is landing, by city
| City | Projects | Total Valuation | Total Sq. Ft. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin | 117 | $283,040,698 | 2,455,651 |
| Georgetown | 13 | $149,564,000 | 1,169,164 |
| Kyle | 3 | $101,480,000 | 139,393 |
| Taylor | 4 | $88,000,000 | 45,735 |
| Pflugerville | 7 | $75,086,177 | 4,074,853 |
| Hutto | 4 | $18,195,465 | 208,565 |
| Leander | 14 | $16,618,300 | 210,402 |
| Cedar Park | 16 | $14,288,570 | 248,561 |
| Manor | 7 | $11,963,210 | 96,432 |
| San Marcos | 13 | $8,723,488 | 566,992 |
| Liberty Hill | 2 | $6,200,000 | 16,980 |
| Spicewood | 3 | $5,950,000 | 17,187 |
| Round Rock | 8 | $3,816,965 | 40,471 |
| Wimberley | 1 | $3,687,555 | 2,998 |
| Rollingwood | 1 | $1,785,952 | 50,166 |
| Mustang Ridge | 1 | $1,435,878 | 538,720 |
| Del Valle | 2 | $1,050,000 | 6,027 |
| Bee Cave | 2 | $925,000 | 17,974 |
| Dripping Springs | 3 | $711,699 | 7,301 |
| West Lake Hills | 1 | $450,000 | 3,022 |
| Lakeway | 1 | $150,000 | 1,960 |
Georgetown is the story hiding inside this table: 13 projects worth $149.6 million, second only to Austin proper, driven by Green Point Property Company's industrial buildout (GTX Logistics Park), the county's new Texas Municipal Center, and the Aalo Advanced Manufacturing buildout at the Crosspoint Business District. Pflugerville's 4.07 million square feet is almost entirely one entry — the Carmel East Phase 3B subdivision infrastructure filing (2.92 million sq ft across a large residential phase), a reminder that "square footage" in these filings can mean raw developed land, not just building interiors.
Who's actually building right now?
Beyond the single biggest checks, a few names show up more than once this month — the real signal of who's actively expanding in Central Texas:
| Owner / Developer | Filings | Combined Value | What they're building |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exeter Fitzhugh Land, LP | 3 | $32,225,000 | Three ground-up industrial buildings on Fitzhugh Rd near the airport, all designed by Method Architecture |
| TREA 11044 Research Blvd LLC | 5 | $2,861,703 | Five tenant-suite buildouts (an amenities center plus four office suites) at the Stratum building on Research Blvd |
| Austin Independent School District | 3 | $7,831,002 | Campus renovations and additions across the district |
| City of Austin | 3 | $3,075,000 | Municipal facility work |
| The University of Texas at Austin | 3 | $1,923,165 | Campus renovation projects |
Green Point Property Company, the Dallas-based industrial developer behind Green Point Bldg 3, is mid-build on a much bigger 231-acre GTX Logistics Park at FM 972 and CR 141 in Georgetown — this $42 million spec warehouse is one building inside a project that could eventually top 3 million square feet at full build-out, according to Connect CRE.
Method Architecture was the busiest design firm on record this month with 5 filings, all tied to Exeter Fitzhugh Land's industrial park. On the residential side, city permit records (below) show HPI Real Estate Services & Investments broke ground on The Kent, a 7-story, 396-unit apartment tower at 2631 Kramer Lane in North Austin, positioned less than a quarter-mile from the future UT Dell Medical/MD Anderson Cancer Center campus.
What did the city's own permit data show?
Austin's building permit system stamps a project's full valuation on every sub-permit tied to it — an electrical permit, a mechanical permit, and a structural permit for the same $50 million tower can each carry that full $50 million figure. Summing the raw feed without deduplicating inflates the real number by several times. Here's what happened when we tried it both ways.
Pulling every Austin building permit issued in the same 30-day window with a stated valuation of $500,000 or more returned 41 rows totaling $476,050,991 — raw. Collapsing duplicate rows that share the same valuation, contractor, and street number (the same de-duplication method TDLR's own registration system effectively already applies) brought that down to 16 distinct projects worth $177,750,991 — a 63% reduction, and a clean illustration of why this report leads with TDLR's estimated_cost figure rather than a raw city-permit sum.
| Project Address | Est. Valuation | Contractor | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1412 Norseman Ter | $51,150,000 | Joeris General Contractors | New construction |
| 2631 Kramer Ln | $48,000,000 | OHT Construction LLC | New multifamily building (The Kent) |
| 6420 Helen Miller Vw | $28,000,000 | HOAR Construction LLC | New green-certified building |
| 4401 Tilley St | $13,855,000 | Joeris General Contractors | New 51,250 sq ft middle school |
| 12520 Harris Branch Pkwy | $12,300,000 | Kingham Dalton Wilson | New light manufacturing facility |
| 3006 Bowman Ave | $8,989,991 | Knight Construction | Building addition/alteration |
Joeris General Contractors shows up twice in the city's own permit data — once on the $51.15 million Norseman Terrace project and again on a $13.86 million, 51,250-square-foot middle school at 4401 Tilley St — making it the busiest general contractor in Austin's own permit records this month.
What locals should know
Development filed today doesn't mean cranes tomorrow — TDLR registration and city permit issuance are the start of the paper trail, often 12–24 months ahead of substantial completion. Soulbrain's Taylor plant, for example, isn't slated to finish until early 2028.
"Square footage" in TDLR filings isn't always building interior space — for subdivision-phase filings like Carmel East, it can represent the land area of the entire development phase, which is why city-level totals can look lopsided toward one entry.
For the live version of everything in this report — searchable by project, address, or developer — <a href="https://zabalist.com/projects">Zabalist's project database</a> and <a href="https://zabalist.com/permits">permit tracker</a> are the public home of this same data, updated daily. <a href="https://zabalist.com/directory/developers">Zabalist's developer directory</a> profiles firms like Green Point Property and Exeter Fitzhugh Land directly.
This report pairs with our ongoing coverage of Georgetown's boom — see Inside The Junction Entertainment District and Austin's 2026 Retail Boom — plus our Austin economy tracker for the metro's broader unemployment, home-price, and permit trends.
Method & sources
Primary spine: TDLR tabs_projects registrations with registered_date between 2026-08-03 and 2026-09-02, filtered to Travis, Williamson, and Hays counties (224 raw rows; 223 after excluding one implausible outlier valuation — see the note above). Secondary cross-check: City of Austin building permits with issue_date in the same window and a stated valuation of $500,000+, deduplicated on valuation + contractor + street number. Both datasets are tracked and refreshed by ATX Things' sister platform, Zabalist, and cited here with the exact date range above. Two prior editions of this series are live: the August 2026 report and the July 2026 report.
FAQ
How much did Austin-area construction total in August 2026? Based on TDLR project registrations dated August 3–September 2, 2026, the five-county Austin metro area (Travis, Williamson, Hays) registered $793.1 million across 223 projects totaling roughly 9.9 million square feet, according to ATX Things analysis.
What's the biggest project filed this month? An Austin Community College District building on the Hays Campus in Kyle, registered at $101 million for 136,300 square feet — the only nine-figure filing this cycle after one implausible outlier valuation was excluded (see the method note above).
Is Georgetown really outbuilding most of Austin's suburbs? Yes, by dollar value — Georgetown's 13 projects totaled $149.6 million this month, more than Kyle, Taylor, Pflugerville, and every other suburb in this dataset, driven by an industrial park build-out, a new county government complex, and a manufacturing buildout.
Why do city permit totals and TDLR totals look so different? Austin's city permit system stamps a project's full valuation on every sub-permit filed against it, which inflates a raw sum — in this month's data, deduplicating city permits by valuation, contractor, and street number cut the total by 63%. TDLR registers projects once, which is why this report uses it as the primary figure.
Where can I look up a specific project or developer myself? Zabalist's <a href="https://zabalist.com/projects">project database</a> and <a href="https://zabalist.com/directory/developers">developer directory</a> are the public, searchable home of the same underlying data used in this report, updated daily.
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