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REI Co-op is set to open its Prosper location in March, according to its website.

The details: The 23,848-square-foot store will be located in the Gates of Prosper shopping center just next to Carhartt, which opened in November. REI offers a wide selection of equipment and apparel for outdoor sports and activities, including camping, hiking, cycling and climbing.

• 1081 Gates Parkway, Ste. 300, Prosper

Prosper ISD will be closed Wednesday, Jan. 28 due to unsafe road conditions. 

What you need to know: “While our facilities teams have worked throughout the day to clear sidewalks, doorways, driveways, and parking lots across all campuses, freezing temperatures overnight could refreeze what has melted today,” the Jan. 27 announcement stated.

The district was closed Jan. 26-27. 

Celina ISD will be closed Wednesday, Jan. 28 due to unsafe road conditions. 

The details: Campuses and offices will be closed and all other school-related activities will be canceled or postponed, according to a Jan. 27 district announcement. 

“We will continue to monitor conditions through the day Wednesday, and make a determination Wednesday afternoon regarding school or school-related activities for Thursday,” the district stated in a Facebook post. 

Campuses were also closed Jan. 26-27 due to weather. 

With temperatures reaching above 32 degrees across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex on Tuesday, icy roads began to melt; however, roads are expected to refreeze overnight as temperatures drop again.

While the DFW area is not going to see anymore freezing precipitation, roads are not going to have a chance to clear again until mid-day Wednesday, National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Bishop said.

Quote of note: "Whatever melted today is going to refreeze tonight," he said. 

Current situation: Temperatures are expected to drop into the low 20s again Tuesday into Wednesday, Bishop said, which will cause more issues on area roads and sidewalks. Currently, roads are expected to improve more on Wednesday afternoon than they did Tuesday, he said. 

Temperature highs are expected to be in the 40s Wednesday and around 50 degrees Thursday, per the NWS. 

School closures continue through the week as roads remain icy from Winter Storm Fern over the weekend. Several Dallas-Fort Worth school districts announced continued closures for Jan. 28.

The specifics: As of Jan. 27, the following school districts and colleges have announced that they will be closed Wednesday:

• Allen ISD
• Celina ISD 
• Prosper ISD
• Denton ISD
• Frisco ISD

A new fire station in Flower Mound and industrial warehouse development in the Alliance area are among other projects recently filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Here are five of the most expensive permits filed with TDLR in the past week.

1. Industrial warehouse development

2. Westside Village Jewel Box Office

3. Fire Station No. 6 in Flower Mound

4. Fortezza

5. Concession stand renovations for Grady Littlejohn Softball and Baseball Complex

A set of permanent regulations for thousands of Texas businesses selling consumable hemp products took effect Jan. 21, after the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission adopted them one day earlier.

The overview: The latest hemp rules do not bring significant changes to the roughly 60,000 businesses under TABC oversight. They replace similar emergency rules adopted Sept. 23, prohibiting Texas alcohol retailers from selling hemp-derived THC products to customers under 21 years old.

“The key you heard today… is the effect of THC on younger folks' development—much like alcohol, the same reasons we regulate alcohol for those 21 years old [and up],” TABC chair Robert Eckels said.

Zooming in: The TABC has limited jurisdiction over the consumable hemp industry and can only require age limits and ID checks, agency leaders said. State health officials are considering more comprehensive regulations on the industry.

“The Department of State Health Services’ rules are going to be much more robust,” TABC general counsel James Person said Jan. 20. “They actually cover the products themselves: the [THC] content, the testing and whatnot."