Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton isn’t letting up. In a sweeping legal campaign that spans two lawsuits, a formal letter to county commissioners, and increasingly sharp rhetoric, Paxton has thrown the full weight of his office at the developers behind EPIC City — a sprawling Muslim-led housing and community project in North Texas that he’s calling, bluntly, an illegal scheme.
At the center of the fight is the East Plano Islamic Center and its affiliated development arm, Community Capital Partners, which have been pushing a roughly 400-acre mixed-use development spanning Hunt and Collin Counties. The project — once called EPIC City, now rebranded as The Meadow — envisions more than 1,000 residential units alongside a mosque and school. To Paxton’s office, it’s something else entirely: a fraud-laced land grab that has skirted state law at nearly every turn.
Two Lawsuits and a Warning Letter
The AG’s office filed its first major lawsuit after a referral from the Texas State Securities Board, alleging that EPIC City’s organizers illegally sold securities to investors while obscuring key financial details. Paxton was characteristically blunt about it. “The leaders behind EPIC City have engaged in a radical plot to destroy hundreds of acres of beautiful Texas land and line their own pockets,” he said. “I will relentlessly bring the full force of the law against anyone who thinks they can ignore the rules and hurt Texans.”
That lawsuit targeted the East Plano Islamic Center and Community Capital Partners directly, alleging not just securities violations but outright embezzlement — accusations that the project’s leaders have disputed. Still, the legal machinery kept moving. A second lawsuit followed in February 2026, this one aimed at a different target: the Double R Municipal Utility District No. 2A.
What’s a municipal utility district got to do with any of this? Quite a lot, apparently. Paxton’s office alleges that in September, the MUD’s board underwent a suspicious change that added roughly 400 acres to its jurisdiction — acreage that happens to align almost perfectly with the EPIC City footprint. The AG argues the maneuver was a deliberate attempt to pull the development under local governmental cover and dodge state-level oversight. He’s seeking the removal of the board entirely. “If EPIC City’s developers or operatives are attempting to illegally take over local governmental structures in North Texas, my office will do everything in our power to stop their scheme,” Paxton warned.
Pressure on Collin County
Then came the letter. On March 11, 2026, Paxton wrote directly to the Collin County Commissioners Court, urging members to reject any pending plat applications tied to EPIC City or The Meadow Phase 1. The letter cited the same constellation of concerns — illegal annexation, securities violations, a development process he says has been corrupted from the start. “From beginning to end, the East Plano Islamic Center development has been an illegal scheme designed to circumvent state law and destroy beautiful Texas land,” Paxton wrote. He urged the court to hold the line: no new development approvals, no new platting, until the legal questions are resolved.
It’s a significant ask. Commissioners Courts don’t typically take marching orders from the AG’s office — but a formal letter citing active litigation has a way of focusing minds, particularly when county officials are weighing their own potential exposure.
A Pattern, or a Pile-On?
That’s the harder question lurking beneath all of this. Critics of Paxton — and there are many — have noted that his office has repeatedly described EPIC City using language that emphasizes its Muslim character, calling it a “Muslim-only” development in press materials and leaning into cultural signifiers in ways that some observers find pointed. Supporters counter that the legal allegations, if proven, stand entirely on their own.
What’s undeniable is the scope and speed of the AG’s response. Two lawsuits, one formal advisory letter, and a documented push to dismantle a governmental entity — all targeting a single development project — represents an unusual level of institutional firepower. Paxton has made clear he intends to see it through. “The unlawful land project known as EPIC City will be stopped,” he vowed, “and those responsible will be barred from ever creating another fraudulent operation like this again.”
The developers haven’t folded. The courts haven’t ruled. And a community that believed it was building something lasting now watches from the middle of a legal firestorm — waiting to find out whether what they built was a neighborhood, or, as the state of Texas insists, a crime scene.
