A Tesla facility that's projected to bring at least 1,500 jobs to the Houston area over the next three years has started hiring, as first reported by the Houston Business Journal .

Waller County entered into a tax abatement agreement with Tesla earlier this year for its new factory, which is located in Brookshire. As part of the agreement, the facility must have a taxable inventory of at least $75 million by Jan. 1, increasing to a taxable inventory of $300 million by the end of the third year of the agreement.

"I definitely think we are a very business-friendly environment," Waller County Judge Trey Duhon said. "We work with these kinds of companies to bring them into Waller County because we know what kind of benefits it pays to our community."

Duhon said the nearly $200-milli

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