Dallas developer Todd Interests released a “sneak peek” video showing development progress on its Fairfield Lake property, despite Texas state officials asking the firm to pause work while eminent domain proceedings are ongoing.

On Tuesday afternoon, a public relations firm that has been representing Todd Interests sent out a 44-second clip that’s labeled a “development update” on the Freestone County property, which had been a state park for nearly 50 years until its sale to the developer this spring. The clip, set to a generic upbeat tune, shows bulldozers and dump trucks moving dirt and workers surveying land. One shot shows a strip of land along the water, where the trees still stand but the grass and all other low vegetation appears to have been cleared.

Shawn Todd, the founder of Todd Interests, told the Star-Telegram on Tuesday that his firm has continued construction on the property in the time since the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission voted to move forward with eminent domain.

“We started that work in advance of their hearing and we’ve continued it after their hearing,” Todd said.

Todd Interests finalized its purchase of the 5,000 acre property at the beginning of June, taking over the land from energy company Vistra Corp. The property includes the former Fairfield Lake State Park, which is about 1,800 acres and which Vistra had leased to the state for about 50 years.

The developer intends to build an enclave of high-end homes in a gated community with a golf course and private clubhouse. In advance of those plans, former owner Vistra terminated the state’s lease on the park land.

Over the course of Todd Interests’ purchase, Texas Parks and Wildlife attempted, unsuccessfully, to find a way to keep Fairfield Lake State Park open to the public. After the purchase went through, though, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission moved to a new tactic and authorized the department to use eminent domain to seize the full 5,000-acre property, including the park land, from Todd Interests. (Todd has repeatedly lambasted the commission for that vote, saying it’s a violation of private property rights and a display of the commission’s “arrogance.”)

At that meeting, commissioners specifically asked Todd Interests to hold off on any development of the property.

And shortly after that meeting, commission chairman Arch “Beaver” Aplin III told the Star-Telegram that it would be “horrific” if the firm did move forward with any demolition.

“Right now they’re his assets, but when this is finished, we’re doing it to save a park,” Aplin said in mid-June.

Because the property still legally belongs to the firm, though, the state does not have the authority to dictate what Todd Interests does with the property. The firm’s continued construction on the site is consistent with statements that Todd made in a mid-June interview with numerous outlets, including the Star-Telegram.

“We’ve not paused anything with respect to the property that we own,” Todd said at the time. “We are fully entitled to do with our property what we choose to do.”