FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 6, 2026--
Hillwood announced today that Joby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE: JOBY) has signed a lease for 45,000 square feet at Alliance Air Trade Center in Haslet, part of Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport. Located within Hillwood’s 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development, the leased space marks the first significant North Texas presence by an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft manufacturer and strengthens the region’s growing role in advanced air mobility.
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Joby is a leading developer of eVTOL aircraft designed for commercial passenger transportation.
"I first visited Perot Field two decades ago, and it was clear even back then that this airport would grow into a cornerstone of aviation for the region," said Greg Bowles, Joby Aviation’s Chief Policy Officer . “Establishing a presence in Texas puts Joby in one of the most exciting markets in the country . This site gives us a base to demonstrate the value of air mobility services across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and the state. Texas is showing strong leadership in advanced air mobility, thanks to partners like Hillwood, TxDOT and NCTCOG, and we look forward to working with them to bring that vision to life as we begin flights under the eIPP program."
The new location positions Joby within one of the nation’s most established aviation and logistics platforms. The location connects the company with AllianceTexas’ multimodal transportation infrastructure, skilled regional workforce and network of public- and private-sector partners focused on advancing mobility innovation.
“Welcoming Joby to AllianceTexas reflects our ability to pair flexible real estate solutions with the resources forward-looking companies need to grow,” said Samuel Rhea, vice president at Hillwood. “Joby brings an important new capability and demonstrates how AllianceTexas continues to evolve to support aviation, manufacturing and the advanced air mobility sector.”
Perot Field is the world’s first industrial airport purpose-built for cargo and corporate aviation and serves as the aviation cornerstone of AllianceTexas. The airport is also a central component of the AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone, a public-private ecosystem that brings together industry innovators, policymakers and infrastructure partners to advance technologies across air and surface mobility.
“Joby’s presence at Perot Field is a significant milestone for the airport and for North Texas aviation,” said Christopher Ash, president of Alliance Aviation Companies. “By locating within the AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone, Joby helps validate the collaborative work happening here and advances the integration of eVTOL technology across the region’s transportation network.”
About Joby
Joby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE: JOBY) is a California-based transportation company developing an all-electric, vertical take-off and landing air taxi. Joby intends to both operate its fast, quiet, and convenient air taxi service in cities around the world and sell its aircraft to other operators and partners. To learn more, visit www.jobyaviation.com.
About AllianceTexas
Developed by Hillwood, AllianceTexas is an unparalleled regional success story that has transformed the North Texas economy and connected the area to global industry. Spanning 27,000 acres, the development is anchored by the world's first dedicated industrial airport, Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport (AFW), and features one of the nation's premier intermodal hubs. Today, AllianceTexas is home to 602 companies that have created 73,134 direct jobs and have 66.7 million square feet of developed commercial real estate assets. The development's cumulative impact since 1989 is an estimated $142.9 billion for the North Texas region. For additional information, please visit www.alliancetexas.com.
Joby Aviation has opened a new 45,000-square-foot facility at Hillwood's Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport. The new hub marks the first major eVTOL aircraft company presence in Texas and will support future electric air taxi operations across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Photo Credit: Joby Aviation.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Trump administration sued California election officials Thursday, asking a judge to bar the state from counting mail-in ballots for next month's midterm elections from people the federal government has identified as “likely” noncitizens until their immigration status can be confirmed.
The lawsuit comes after the Justice Department said California officials failed to meet a 48-hour deadline to review a password-protected thumb drive that contains a list of 20,000 names. The federal government says those are likely noncitizens who were sent ballots to participate in the Nov. 3 election, although the secretary of state said the administration has provided no evidence to support that claim. The state mails ballots to all registered voters.
The lawsuit follows a letter sent earlier this week by a top Justice Department official who threatened potential legal action if California didn't comply.
The federal government didn't specify where the 20,000 voters were concentrated, but the list was sent directly to Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan on Tuesday, his office confirmed in a statement. His office said the list contained names of voters throughout California, not just Los Angeles, even though Logan is the only county election official named as a defendant in the lawsuit. He doesn't have jurisdiction over ballots outside Los Angeles County.
In a statement Thursday, Logan said his office can’t withhold ballots or refuse to count them “based solely on unverified allegations.”
Over 23 million people are registered statewide, and there are a handful of competitive congressional races in other California districts that could determine which party has control of the U.S. House for the final two years of President Donald Trump's term.
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said in a letter to the Justice Department that the federal government hasn't provided evidence to support its allegation that 20,000 names on the state's voter rolls are of noncitizens. She referenced an instance in which the federal government initially alleged nearly 16,000 possible noncitizens were listed on Nevada's voter rolls, but the state determined that all the people flagged were, in fact, U.S. citizens.
She also noted that voting is already underway in the state. Weber, a Democrat, said the Justice Department was “demanding unprecedented measures that threaten thousands of Californians’ right to vote, based on unverifiable information or methodology that you still fail to explain or provide.”
California's elections are in “full compliance” with federal law, she added.
David Becker, an election law expert who heads the Center for Election Innovation and Research, called the Justice Department’s lawsuit “fairly frivolous.”
“If they were seeking to work in good faith to clean up the voter list that they believed had issues, they would have done this months ago in a much different fashion,” Becker said. “However, it does raise questions as to whether or not the sole purpose of this is to set the stage for false claims about elections.”
Logan said his office received the thumb drive along with a “hand written note providing a password” to access the list of alleged noncitizens on the voter rolls. He said he did not consider the thumb drive a secure device. The secretary of state’s office said the password was written “on a sticky note.”
Becker said most election officials’ cybersecurity protocols would not allow them to comply with the Justice Department's request as it was sent.
“Election offices do not just stick thumb drives into their technology, for very good reason,” he said.
The Justice Department's lawsuit says the federal government sought to “work collaboratively” with California to identify noncitizens registered to vote in the state, and “California made no serious effort to do so.”
“The United States thus seeks commonplace election relief when a ballot is called into question,” the lawsuit says. “This Court should enjoin California from presently tabulating vote by-mail ballots from likely noncitizens in the upcoming federal election until the voter’s citizenship status can be determined.”
Weber, who is named in the lawsuit, suggested the federal government's outreach had not been collaborative.
She said that over the summer, the Department of Homeland Security claimed that California had 190,000 noncitizens on its voter rolls but refused to provide the methodology or data sources when the office asked for them.
In her letter Thursday, she called the recent demands “an emergency of the DOJ’s creation.”
The letter sent by acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter gave the state 48 hours to research the list of the 20,000 people it claims might not be citizens. For those whose citizenship cannot be independently verified, the state is to instruct local election officials to segregate their mail-in ballots until their immigration status can be determined, and to not provide a ballot to anyone who has not yet received one.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said at an unrelated press conference Thursday morning that state officials would not carry out the federal government’s requests to withhold ballots for the alleged noncitizen voters. He noted that the administration's alleged number of noncitizens on the state's voter rolls had dropped from the 190,000 flagged over the summer by the Department of Homeland Security to the 20,000 noted by the Justice Department.
“What happened to those 170,000? They just got those wrong,” Bonta said.
He also said the Trump administration was violating a federal law that prohibits states from changing voter rolls within 90 days of an election.
“They are in unprecedented, baseless, lawless territory,” he said.
The Trump administration has made the hunt for noncitizen voters a priority this year, even though the problem is exceptionally rare. The Justice Department has charged about 90 people for various types of election misconduct so far this year, including 50 who are alleged to have voted as noncitizens. There were more than 227 million registered voters in the United States during the 2024 presidential election.
Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, defended the Justice Department’s move to take California to court.
“This is not political or controversial,” he wrote in a post on X. “We will not allow California to dilute the votes of American citizens.”
Austin reported from Sacramento, Riddle from Los Angeles and Durkin Richer from Washington. Associated Press writer Ali Swenson in New York contributed.
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FILE - The U.S. Department of Justice logo is seen on a podium before a news conference, May 4, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
