CXO Galaxy Hangar 15E

CXO Galaxy Hangar 15E is a 26,000 sq ft new construction project located at 1011 General Thomas Kelly Blvd. in Conroe, Montgomery County. The facility consists of an aircraft storage hangar with an attached office lean-to, supported by an aircraft apron and a vehicular parking lot. The estimated cost is $4,500,000, which works out to $173 per square foot. This figure is above the county median of $100 per square foot for new construction filings in Montgomery County.

Black Forest Ventures is the owner of record for this privately funded project on private land. The design firm is Pgal, and Kenneth Otten is the registered accessibility specialist. The project was registered with TDLR in October 2025. According to the filing, construction is scheduled to start in January 2026 and completion is targeted for November 2026. The total scheduled build window is 308 days, which is longer than the county median of 212 days.

Project Context and Comparisons

The estimated cost of $4,500,000 places this project in the top quarter of new construction filings in Montgomery County, where the median estimated cost is $800,000. The size of 26,000 sq ft is significantly larger than the county median of 9,267 sq ft. Black Forest Ventures has six other TDLR-registered projects totaling $8,606,500, including a $7,000,000 hangar in Houston and a $500,000 project in The Woodlands. Pgal, the design firm, has six other registered projects totaling $36,150,000, including the City of Sugar Land Animal Shelter and Harris County CSCD projects.

Local coverage, such as a Facebook post by the texomacitylifestyle account, described the new CXO Galaxy Hangar 15E as coming soon to the Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport. The site is situated near other aviation and service businesses, including American Flyers, MW Aircraft Services Inc, and West Star Aviation. The surrounding ZIP code 77303 has a population of about 26,324 residents, with a median household income of $72,827 according to U.S. Census estimates. The Montgomery County unemployment rate was 4.9 percent in June 2026, which is higher than a year earlier.

The project status is Project Registered with TDLR. Plan review is pending, and the timeline indicates a start date of January 2026. The scope of work includes associated site work for the aircraft apron and parking lot. This is a private use facility, not a public government building. The registration ensures that accessibility standards are considered in the design and construction process for this new hangar and office complex in Conroe.