Elon Musk, the richest person on Earth, is set to have his own microcity in South Texas after winning a local vote on Saturday, mainly made up of people who work for him and their families. Starbase, the new city built around the billionaire’s company SpaceX, is located in a coastal southern town in Texas close to the Mexico border and covers only about one and a half square miles. Musk spent the weekend celebrating the vote on X, the social media site he owns, writing that Starbase is “now a real city!” and sharing photos of him opening the company’s launch site over a decade ago.

X content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. It’s been a long wish for Musk, who posted in March of 2021 that he was “creating” Starbase. It became a reality when nearly all voters, 212 to 6, opted to incorporate the city.

According to The Texas Newsroom, the majority of eligible voters worked for Musk. Many others are family members of SpaceX employees. Next, to cement Starbase, Texas, a judge must issue an order declaring the election results and the official incorporation of the new city.

Boca Chica Village, a small beach town founded over 80 years ago, sits on the Starbase compound. In recent years, it’s experienced a seismic shift. SpaceX, The Texas Newsroom reports, has bought up almost all the houses in the area, adding Airstream trailers and tiny homes for its employees.

According to SpaceX officials, in the proposed boundaries of Starbase, only 10 out of 247 lots aren’t owned by Musk’s company or its employees. “We need the ability to grow Starbase as a community,” Starbase General Manager Kathryn Lueders wrote in a request to local officials in 2024 aimed at getting a vote on the city onto the ballot.