Throughout 2025, Community Impact spoke with the owners and leadership of businesses to be featured in our monthly editions. Here's a look back at the nine businesses featured in Community Impact's Prosper-Celina edition in 2025.

Prosper’s Black Willow Boutique offers customer-focused shopping experience
There are plenty of places for customers to shop, but the staff at Black Willow Boutique focuses on the customer's experience, owner Ashley Sawyer said. The store is a women’s apparel, accessory and gift boutique.

Stony Glen Stables offers equestrian sport lessons in Celina
Established in 1997, Stony Glen Stables offers students professional instruction in the hunter jumper discipline of equestrian sport. Business owner Julie Holmquest said riders typically lean toward being a hunter or jumper based on individual interests.

La Finca Coffee, Bakery, Kitchen has closed its Prosper location after nearly two years in business, according to a social media post by the restaurant.

What you need to know: The restaurant, located at 2281 E. University Drive, Ste. 10, opened in April 2023. The Prosper location expanded on La Finca’s original Frisco location by adding a full kitchen, offering breakfast and lunch items such as chilaquiles, empanadas, tacos and sandwiches.

Quote of note: “With our lease ending, we made the difficult decision not [to] renew it,” the post stated. “Unfortunately, with increasing costs, we felt like this was the best decision at this time.”

• 2281 E. University Drive, Ste. 10, Prosper

Through a new partnership with radiology software provider Civie, North Star Diagnostic Imaging has added new technology to all of the business's 15 locations throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

How it works: The unified Radiology Information System uses artificial intelligence to reduce the administrative burden on physicians and provide an improved patient experience. According to a North Star Diagnostic Imaging news release, benefits of the technology include:

• Lower patient costs
• Faster imaging results
• Reduced wait times for scheduling and authorizations
• More time for providers to spend with patients

Approximately three dozen new Texas laws are scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, impacting how artificial intelligence is used in state government, when local officials can raise taxes after natural disasters and how much of businesses' inventory is taxed.

The background: The changes come after Texas’s biennial legislative session ended in early June. Gov. Greg Abbott signed over 1,100 laws passed by state lawmakers, many of which took effect in June or September.

The details: Some of the bills becoming law in the new year are:

• House Bill 9, which will expand a tax exemption for business owners
• House Bill 30, which will tighten regulations on counties' and cities' abilities to raise tax rates after natural disasters
• House Bill 149, which will regulate the fast-growing AI industry
• House Bill 247, which will exempt certain border security infrastructure from property tax increases
• House Bill 1399, which will create a property tax exemption for stores selling animal feed
• House Bill 2508, which will establish a property tax exemption for the surviving spouse of certain military members