The Abatement RegisterCassAgreement 0003539
Texas Chapter 380 / 381 agreement · Cass

Advanced Lumberworks-Linden, LLC and TM Mill Site, LLC

Agreement 0003539, filed with the Texas Comptroller by County of Cass.

$5,225,000.00committed capital investment
8permanent jobs committed
50–80%of New Eligible Property abated
December 31, 2022performance deadline
The obligation

What the contract requires.

“The capital investments related to the Project site contemplated by this Paragraph 3.02 must be completed on or before December 31, 2022”Executed agreement, p. 5
“The MILL covenants and agrees that it will create and fill not less than eight (8) new Employment Positions in Cass County over and above the Employment Baseline”Executed agreement, p. 7
“The MILL agrees that its capital investment to the Project site will be no less than FIVE MILLION, TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5,225,000.00).”Executed agreement, p. 5
The remedy

What the contract says happens.

“During the Tax Abatement Period 100%”Executed agreement, p. 11

Where a deadline above has passed, no public record exists of whether it was met — not in the Comptroller’s filings, nor in the local government’s own disclosures. That is not evidence of non-compliance. Texas requires nobody to record it.

Abatement schedule · New Eligible Property · p. 4

What was abated, and for how long.

80%Year 1
70%Year 2
60%Year 3
50%Years 4-10

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.

Every field, as the contract states it

The record.

FieldValue & quoted sourcePage
Granting bodyCounty of CassTHIS TAX ABATEMENT AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is entered into between the County of Cass1
Contracting entityAdvanced Lumberworks-Linden, LLC and TM Mill Site, LLCAdvanced Lumberworks-Linden, LLC and TM Mill Site, LLC, Texas limited liability companies1
Parent / guarantorNot stated in the agreement—
InstrumentTax Abatement AgreementSTATE OF TEXAS § TAX ABATEMENT AGREEMENT1
Governing chapterChapter 312, Tax Code (property tax abatement)WITNESSETH: WHEREAS, the Commissioners Court of Cass County, Texas, by Resolution 07082021 established the Mill Reinvestment Zone (the “Zone”), which constitutes a reinvestment zone for commercial/industrial tax phase-in, as authorized by the Texas Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act (Texas Tax Code Chapter 312);—
Capital investment$5,225,000.00The MILL agrees that its capital investment to the Project site will be no less than FIVE MILLION, TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5,225,000.00).5
Grant or incentiveNot stated in the agreement—
Jobs committed8The MILL covenants and agrees that it will create and fill not less than eight (8) new Employment Positions in Cass County over and above the Employment Baseline7
Wage requirementstate minimumone hundred percent (100%) of all Employment Positions at the New Facility will be paid a minimum wage, not including benefits, of at least the state minimum.7
Square footageNot stated in the agreement—
Acreagetwenty-five (25) acresthe MILL has purchased certain real property within Cass County which consists of approximately twenty-five (25) acres of land1
Performance deadlineDecember 31, 2022The capital investments related to the Project site contemplated by this Paragraph 3.02 must be completed on or before December 31, 20225
ExpirationDecember 31, 2032Tax Abatement Period” for purposes of this Agreement means the period beginning on January 1, 2023 and continuing for a period of ten (10) tax years thereafter ending on December 31 of that tenth year.3
Effective dateJuly 8, 2021This Agreement was approved by Resolution of the Commissioners Court dated July 8, 202116
SignatoryPP 4at [2 aeBy: PP 4at [2 ae16
Chain statusTerminal document — no later agreement in the registry names this one as its predecessor—
How to check this page

Every line above is in the contract.

Agreement 0003539 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.

One of 1,645

Which of these are on your book?

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.

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