Carroll County has approved two building permits allowing SpaceX to add a pair of small industrial buildings at 1221 Independence Way, where the company operates a manufacturing plant in the Westminster Technology Park that it took over from Hexagon Purus earlier this year.
The permits, filed April 21 and still listed as "Applied" in late April, now show a status of "Permit Issued" in Carroll County's public permitting database. Standard inspection conditions were added to both records on June 16.
The project is modest in scale: each permit authorizes a one-story concrete masonry building of 500 square feet — roughly the footprint of a two-car garage — built on a slab, at an estimated cost of $200,000 apiece. According to the records, both buildings will include plumbing, electrical, and grading work, and will be equipped with fire-suppression sprinkler systems that meet the NFPA 13 commercial standard.
County records classify the buildings under occupancy type F1, a building-code designation for moderate-hazard factory and industrial use. The permit descriptions identify the project as "SpaceX" and note that the site was "previously Hexagon Purus Masterworks." Both records list a cancellation date of Dec. 13, 2026.
SpaceX's presence at the technology park is already established. In February, Norwegian company Hexagon Purus announced an agreement to sell its aerospace subsidiary, Hexagon Masterworks Inc. — whose Westminster operation manufactures high-pressure composite storage cylinders for aerospace and space launch applications — to SpaceX in a transaction Hexagon valued at approximately $15 million, comprising $12.5 million in cash at closing and a contingent earn-out of $2.5 million, subject to closing conditions.
The company's hiring in Westminster has also shifted. SpaceX's careers page currently lists two openings at the location: a build reliability engineer and a nondestructive evaluation inspector, both associated with the company's Starship program. Positions for welders, quality inspectors, and an office manager, posted this spring, no longer appear on the site.
SpaceX did not respond to a previous request for comment about its plans for the Westminster location.