The state publishes 4,428 Chapter 380 and 381 economic development agreements as scanned PDFs and structures none of them. I read the executed documents and record what each one actually commits a company to — the build-by date, the repayment remedy, and the page it sits on.
Celestica's agreement contains all three. Coverage used the largest. It sits in a whereas
clause, which commits no one to anything. The enforceable figure is in section 4.1, and it is $75 million smaller.
Taylor. A 366,000 sq ft plant with 900 committed jobs appears as two $50M agreements — one for the property owner, one for the lessee. Added up, one building reads as $100M.
Waco. Graphic Packaging and Brazos River Ventures each filed with the city and again with McLennan County. Holt Texas appears under two agreement numbers in Waxahachie, same date, same amount.
No single filing is wrong. They are wrong when you add them — which is what every summary of this data does.
Go For Three, LLC holds the largest commitment in the register: 100% of ad valorem taxes abated for thirty years, plus $38 million in payments over ten years and $19.5 million over fifteen — inside a $97.5 million package for a hotel, convention centre and parking facility.
The entity is Loews Hotels. You cannot learn that from the registry listing, which shows only the LLC. Every figure above is quoted from the executed agreement and the state’s own filing — lawfully approved, in open session, and effectively unreadable at scale.
That is the problem in one row. Not that it was hidden. That nobody can see it.
For a Hopkins County brief covering five agreements, I took each generation project to ERCOT's interconnection records. Four were already operating — the deadline had passed and the registry still showed nothing. The fifth appeared nowhere.
That pattern now has 335 chain-verified examples. Texas records what was promised and never records what happened.
Each row carries the sentence that creates the obligation, the page it appears on, and the repayment clause where the contract states one.
Every value is quoted from the document and cited to a page. Nothing is inferred, averaged or reconciled. Where a contract is silent, the field stays empty rather than being filled with a guess.
A recital is not a covenant. A registry summary field is not a contract term. Two filings for one project are not two projects. Corrections get made within a day, because the citation is there to settle it.
Email me a Texas county and I'll send back every agreement in it with a deadline in the next eighteen months — quoted, page-cited, and checked. If there's nothing there, I'll tell you that instead.
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