Agreement 0003307, filed with the Texas Comptroller by Ellis County.
Texas Government Code 2264 requires this provision in every such agreement. It is triggered by employing unauthorised workers, not by missing a build or jobs target. The contract records no repayment remedy for the obligations above.
A local abatement waives only that taxing unit’s share of the property tax bill. School districts, counties, cities and hospital districts each sign separately.
| Field | Value & quoted source | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Granting body | Ellis CountyThis Tax Abatement Agreement (the “Agreement”) executed by and between Ellis County (“County”), and Earth Root Holdings LLC | 1 |
| Contracting entity | Earth Root Holdings LLCThis Tax Abatement Agreement (the “Agreement”) executed by and between Ellis County (“County”), and Earth Root Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Owner”) | 1 |
| Parent / guarantor | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Instrument | Tax Abatement AgreementThis Tax Abatement Agreement (the “Agreement”) | 1 |
| Governing chapter | Chapter 312, Tax Code (property tax abatement)The Texas Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act, Texas Tax Code, Chapter 312 (the “Act”), in Section 312.201, provides that the governing body of an incorporated city has the power to create one or more reinvestment zones for the abatement of ad valorem taxes assessed against real property and/or personal property located on the real property in such zone provided that certain conditions as | — |
| Capital investment | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Grant or incentive | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Jobs committed | 210 the quoted sentence states no obligationYear 10 210 $11,281,568 $53,069,629 | 4 |
| Wage requirement | Ellis County average wagewhich average wage must exceed the Ellis County average wage as calculated in the City of Midlothian Tax Abatement Policy | 4 |
| Square footage | 900,000The first phase will consist of a 600,000+ square foot building... The second phase will consist of an additional minimum 300,000 square foot building | 2 |
| Acreage | 70.537 acresBEING. all of Lot 2, Block A. Midlothian Business Park, an addition to the City of Midlothian, Texas... and containing 70.537 acres. | 17 |
| Performance deadline | August 31, 2022Owner must obtain a Certificate of Occupancy (as defined below) for Phase 1 Building by August 31, 2022 for the Abatement Period to begin | 3 |
| Expiration | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Effective date | September 22, 2020to be effective on the 22th day of September 2020. | 1 |
| Signatory | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Chain status | Terminal document — no later agreement in the registry names this one as its predecessor | — |
Agreement 0003307 is filed with the Texas Comptroller. Pull the PDF, go to the page number beside any row, and read the sentence. If a figure here does not match the document, tell me and it is corrected the same day.
Where the contract says nothing, the field is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
This is a single agreement. I have read 1,645 of the 4,428 Texas has filed, resolved which have been superseded, and recorded what each commits a company to.
Send me an entity and a county and I will tell you what is on it — quoted, page-cited, checked. Free for the first one.