SpaceX Launch Facility at Boca Chica

https://photos.app.goo.gl/4WsTUBB6Dwm2gygh8

Not that I know anything about rocket launching, but this doesn't look promising as a Cape Canaveral competitor.  There seems to be a lot of private property in the area that would be needed as a safety buffer.  The developed site is in the middle of an apparently failed retirement/vacation community.  OTOH, maybe SpaceX is already making good progress on acqusitions.

Teslarati pretty closely follows SpaceX:
https://www.teslarati.com/category/spacex/

There are two Sprung structures pictured and a largish more permanent structure.  It took me a while to figure out what "RGV" means.  That's in the sign on the permanent structure.

I think I've read that the rocket structure under construction is supposed to be a real useable rocket though it looks more like a mock up to me.  I believe I've read that they start with the top, jack it up, and add lower sections one by one.  I believe this is the "Starship", not the functioning Falcons.  Likely, the thing in the photos is to be used and probably destroyed in testing.

The first photo is approaching the facility from the direction of Brownsville.
The second shows a security pickup that was just sitting there until he started chasing me.
The third is the permanent structure; by zooming, you can read the sign.
Four through seven are of the Sprung structures and the under construction rocket shell.
Eight is apparently tracking radar units.
Nine is a ground mount PV installation.
Ten is looking back toward Brownsville from a residential road just past the facility.
Eleven is one of several of the residential streets.  Many houses delapidated and vacant.  Some, occupied.
Twelve, looking back at the facility from the edge of the group of houses in eleven.
Thirteen, tax foreclosure sign on property near the facility.
Forteen and fifteen, occupied house on the Brownsville side of the facility.  The security pickup is near the house.  He had stopped me from approaching the house even though there was no restricted access signage.

Sixteen through eighteen: I had a very nice supper at Mambo's in McAllen .  Mambo started in Houston and now has several sites.
https://www.mamboseafood.com/

2/12/2020
A really great article about the real estate situation in Boca Chica:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/02/space-x-texas-village-boca-chica/606382/