Voters in a 1.5-square-mile area in South Texas — near the border with Mexico — are widely expected to vote in favor of incorporating a new town called Starbase. The company behind it is SpaceX.

Today, you’d be hard pressed to find many of these corporate slums active in the U.S., but that hasn’t stopped Elon Musk from trying to bring them back in style. The Wall Street Journal has a new story out on SpaceX’s ongoing attempt to incorporate its own town in a region of the Texas Gulf Coast,