El Cedro Apartments Gym

El Cedro Investments LLC is building a new gym facility at 1820 Dennett Road in Brownsville, Texas. The project, filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation as El Cedro Apartments Gym, involves the construction of a 958-square-foot indoor gym containing two restrooms, along with a 442-square-foot outdoor covered area. The total square footage for the new construction is 1,400 sq ft.

The estimated cost for this build is $220,000, which calculates to $157 per square foot. This cost per square foot is above the Cameron County median of $97 for similar new construction filings. However, the total estimated cost is below the county median of $500,000. The scheduled build window is 365 days, which is longer than the county median of 249 days for projects of this type.

Construction Timeline and Status

TDLR completed plan review in July 2026, and construction is scheduled to finish in July 2027. Work on the site began in July 2026, following the registration of the project. The TDLR status is marked as Review Complete. Felipe Guerrero is the registered accessibility specialist listed on the filing. The project is privately funded on private land for private use.

El Cedro Investments LLC holds one other TDLR-registered project in the area: Cedar Apartments in Brownsville, valued at $1,800,000. This designation indicates the property is not within the mapped high-risk flood area according to the National Flood Hazard Layer.

The surrounding area, ZIP code 78526, has a population of about 59,719 according to U.S. Census ACS 2023 five-year estimates. The median household income in this ZIP code is $68,143, and the median owner-occupied home value is $158,300. Housing in this area is mostly owner-occupied, with 18,222 housing units recorded. The Cameron County unemployment rate was 7.3 percent in June 2026, higher than a year earlier.