At the tail end of a news conference today in Washington D.C. the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, was asked whether a site had been chosen yet for much anticipated SpaceX commercial launch site.

His reply, “We’re also developing a launch pad on the south coast of Texas … We’ll probably have that site active in a couple of years.”

All he’s waiting for, Musk said, is an environmental clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration, which he expects to receive soon.

This site, if it is indeed built, would allow for launches of both the Falcon 9 (already flying) and Falcon 9 Heavy (under development) from south Texas, near Brownsville. These launches would be for commercial (i.e. satellites) as well as possibly NASA purposes.

There have been a number of indications that SpaceX intended to build the site in south Texas, but Musk’s statement today is the clearest sign yet that, in a few years, Texans will be able to see rocket launches up close and personal.

For a state that’s seen a loss of space business due to a downturn in activity at Johnson Space Center over the last five years this is huge news.