Guides

Corridor guides

Everything we know about this border market, written down and sourced. No press-release repetition — where the public record is silent or contradicts itself, we say so.

Crossings

The Eagle Pass port of entry, explained

How the Eagle Pass–Piedras Negras port of entry actually works: two road bridges, one commercial inspection lane, a single-track rail bridge from 1922 carrying three quarters of the value, and two permitted crossings that have not broken ground.

Camino Real International Bridge expansion The Camino Real (Bridge II) expansion from six to twelve lanes: permit history, the LJA design award, the $23M realignment that must finish first, and why October 2029 is the current target. Puerto Verde Global Trade Bridge The proposed Puerto Verde crossing at Maverick County: what the Presidential Permit actually authorizes, who holds it, the non-binding 65% county MOU, the NEPA exemption, and what still stands before construction. Green Eagle Railroad The 1.3-mile rail connection behind Puerto Verde: the Surface Transportation Board decision, the environmental record, organized local opposition, and the Class I agreements that are still not in place.

Capital

Investing in Maverick County land

A practical framework for capital entering the Eagle Pass and Maverick County land market: the timing risk, the carry, the alignment risk, and four strategies with the case against each.

Carrying costs on border land How to build the carry line for raw land held through a long infrastructure cycle in Maverick County: property tax, agricultural valuation, financing and opportunity cost. Eagle Pass industrial land Which ground around Eagle Pass and Maverick County is positioned for the corridor as it is being built — rail service, road alignment, utility capacity, and the 700-hectare industrial park on the Mexican side.

Corridor

The Southwest Texas trade corridor

How Eagle Pass connects to San Antonio, I-35 and the Panhandle — and how Coahuila connects it to Saltillo and Monterrey. Highway 57 on both sides, Ports-to-Plains, and what is actually funded.

US 57 — Eagle Pass to I-35 TxDOT’s interstate feasibility study of the US 57 corridor from the Eagle Pass border crossing to I-35 south of San Antonio: scope, findings, and why a completed study is not a funded program. Ports-to-Plains and US 277 How Eagle Pass sits on the congressionally designated Ports-to-Plains corridor via US 277, what the I-27 extension actually did, and why designation is durable but slow.

Retail

The Eagle Pass retail market, in numbers

Eagle Pass retail sales, trade area and demand, from the Texas Comptroller, the Census and BLS. Taxable sales, the real pull factor, household income, drive times, and the Mexican-side population — sourced, with the arithmetic shown.

Eagle Pass retail corridors, and who owns them The five retail corridors in Eagle Pass, Texas — South Bibb Avenue, North Veterans Boulevard, Del Rio Boulevard, El Indio Highway and East Main — with named ownership from the appraisal roll and construction registrations. Cross-border shoppers at Eagle Pass Measured crossing data for Eagle Pass — pedestrians up 52% since 2019, personal vehicles below 2019 — plus the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas research on Mexican-shopper share of Texas border retail, and why Eagle Pass is not in it. Retail site selection in Eagle Pass Six specific ways a standard retail site-selection model misreads Eagle Pass and Maverick County — trade areas truncated by an international boundary, income that understates spending, a non-disclosure state with no comp set, and what to check instead.

These guides are research and analysis. Every figure carries a source and a verification date; statuses in this corridor change, and you should re-verify anything you intend to rely on.

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