SpaceX founder Elon Musk hasn’t yet formally announced South Texas as the site of his company’s private launch facility, but officials in Florida are conceding that Texas is going to land the coveted project.

Dale Ketcham is director of strategic alliances for Space Florida, a state-run agency focused on bringing promoting aerospace-related economic development in Florida. Ketcham told reporters in Florida that he expects SpaceX to announce as soon as this week that a site on the Texas coast, near Brownsville, is the choice to build the new commercial launch complex.

“We kind of have known it’s coming for a while,” Ketcham told TV station Bay News 9. “But it’s still going to be traumatic and not insignificant disappointment. It is naive for us to assume the loss of SpaceX commercial activity to Texas is not a significant blow to our plans and our future.”

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