With deannexation complete, Bastrop film studio targets 2025 opening

BASTROP COUNTY, Texas (Austin Business Journal) -- The future site of a 546-acre film studio east of Austin has cleared its deannexation from the city of Bastrop. Its owner, Alton Butler, said that's set the stage for his team to break ground by the end of this year, with the first studios coming online next year.

The owner of Southern California-based Line 204 studios said on Aug. 19 that the project — which is now known as 204 Texas — took a "monumental step" this month once the project completed a 45-day requirement needed for the land to be released from the city of Bastrop.

City officials earlier this year approved the deannexation under the umbrella of Senate Bill 2038, which allows landowners to petition out of extraterritorial jurisdictions of cities and limit regulatory control.

Read more from our media partner the Austin Business Journal.