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RBI Austin's Youth Baseball Complex Gets Its Building Permits, Eight Years After the Land Deal

Austin, Texas issued five building permits on Oct. 13 for RBI Austin's youth baseball and mentoring complex at 7401 Loyola Lane, including a covered field building and an office and fitness building.

By Morningline Research · October 20, 2026

Austin, Texas issued five building permits on October 13 for a youth sports complex at 7401 Loyola Lane in East Austin. It's the long-planned permanent home of RBI Austin, the Major League Baseball-affiliated youth nonprofit that bought the land in 2018.

The biggest piece is a covered field building of about 38,000 square feet, according to a state filing. The complex also gets an office and fitness building for the group's mentoring programs.

What the permits cover

Timeline of RBI Austin's youth complex at 7401 Loyola Lane
Graphic: Morningline Research, from city building permit records and the reporting linked in this story.

All five permits went through the city's commercial expedited review, and each one describes a "new construction of sports facility." They split the job into pieces:

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A state accessibility filing fills in the sizes. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation registration describes an administration building of about 7,200 square feet, the 38,000-square-foot covered field building, an outdoor baseball field and a small restroom and storage building, about 45,500 square feet in all. It lists the owner as Homeplate Properties and calls the project privately funded.

The same filing gives the schedule: a start date of July 1, 2026, and a finish date of December 1, 2027.

Two very different price tags

The permits and the state filing don't agree on cost. Each of the five city permits, the dumpster enclosure included, lists a reported value of $140 million. The state filing estimates the whole project at $14 million, a tenth of that.

We couldn't find a public source that explains the gap, so we don't treat the $140 million as the cost of the complex. Permit values are estimates filed with the city, not contract amounts.

Eight years from land to permits

RBI Austin announced in March 2018 that it owned 33 acres on Loyola Lane, just east of U.S. 183 and next to the Colony Park neighborhood. Founder Matt Price wrote then that the group wanted the land to be a hub "for sports, mentoring, job training, and more."

The fundraising picked up in 2024. That July, the Nolan Ryan Foundation gave $500,000 to the group's Home Field Advantage campaign, according to a Round Rock Express release. The release said the gift pushed the total past $5 million and that RBI Austin served 1,483 kids and families. Price called it "a giant step closer to having a permanent home."

In November 2024, RBI Austin took the campaign public with $5,449,463 raised, helped by a $1.3 million challenge grant from the Mabee Foundation, according to the group's announcement. The two releases give different goals: $6.8 million in July and $6.2 million in November.

Then came city review of the site plan. The land sits along unnamed tributaries of Walnut Creek, and a 2021 report filed with the plan looked at how the project could change the 100-year floodplain. The case went to the Zoning and Platting Commission on September 2, 2025. Thirteen months later came the building permits.

Walnut Creek at Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms in Austin
Walnut Creek at Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms in northeast Austin. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped).

A busy stretch of Loyola Lane

More is planned along Loyola Lane. Nearby, the city has signed on a master developer for Colony Park, 208 acres of city-owned land meant for roughly 2,000 to 3,000 homes, according to the city's project page. The city and Catellus/Banbury signed that agreement on August 16, 2024.

At the ceremonial groundbreaking in April 2025, Community Impact reported a "$300 million-plus" project built out over 15 years. The plan includes 130,000 square feet of retail, 230,000 square feet of office and institutional space and a Central Health clinic off Loyola Lane. "What we're doing here today is about access," Mayor Kirk Watson said.

For RBI Austin, the next date on record is the state filing's finish: December 1, 2027.

How we count

The permits come from the City of Austin's building permit records for 7401 Loyola Lane, all issued October 13, 2026. Values are the valuations reported on the permits, not contract amounts. Sizes, schedule and funding come from the state, city and organization sources linked here.

See all of Austin's latest permit numbers, updated weekly.

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