A long-awaited gold depository in Texas remains in limbo

State officials originally planned to announce the winning proposal to create a Texas Bullion Depository last year and hoped to have work on it under way by Dec. 1. Now, more than two months after the original deadline, which officials say was never set in stone, there’s still no news yet on where a depository will be located – or who will build and run it. “Our team is working to get this done as soon as possible,” said Chris Bryan , a spokesman with the Texas Comptroller’s Office .