Kelly Slaters luxury Texas surf park hit with $16M wipeout as construction stalls

Kelly Slater’s Texas wave-pool dream just got hit by a $16 million breaker.Austin Surf Club, a 333-acre private surf park and luxury residential community backed by the 11-time world surfing champion, has been swamped by more than $16 million in construction liens as work on the splashy project grinds to a halt, according to The Real Deal.The ultra-exclusive development near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has been hit with a least another $11.6 million in liens, bringing the total north of $16 million, the outlet reported, citing public property filings first reported by the Austin Business Journal.The project is being developed in Del Valle, Texas, on the former site of NLand Surf Park, which closed in 2018.Austin Surf Club is backed by Slater and Scottsdale, Arizona-based Discovery Land Company, with Chase Koch, son of billionaire businessman Charles Koch, and local tech startup figure Jasen Trautwein also connected to the ownership, according to The Real Deal.The project’s controlling entity, Austin Surf Club Venture LP, raised roughly $66 million from investors, according to the Austin Business Journal.But the luxury surf oasis has now slammed into a costly roadblock.Project leaders acknowledged construction was paused in April, according to The Real Deal.That same month, the development was hit with $4.6 million in liens for work done in 2025 and 2026.The latest round of liens has now pushed the total to more than $16 million.Slater had personally hyped the project in a December video posted to Austin Surf Club’s Instagram account, pitching it as the next step in his manmade-wave empire.

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