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Grateful Custard now serving buffalo milk ice cream off Hamilton Pool Road

Grateful Custard opened in Fetch Food Park off Hamilton Pool Road in August. 

The details: The food truck serves ice cream made from Texas-raised and locally pasteurized buffalo milk, swirled with fresh fruit and baked confections. 

Menu items include create-your-own Swirls and Specialty Swirls such as Key Lime Dream, which features vanilla ice cream and fresh key lime pie. 

What else? Grateful Custard plays kid-friendly movies outdoors at dusk every day it is open, according to the business. 

  • 17499 Hamilton Pool Road, Austin

 
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Homes sold, median sale price mixed across Lake Travis, Westlake in October

Home sales and prices were mixed for areas of Lake Travis-Westlake in October compared to the previous year, according to Unlock MLS data.

The details: Home sales were down year over year for several areas across the Lake Travis-Westlake area in October, with the largest decrease in ZIP code 78734, where home sales decreased 25%.

The largest increase in home sales was in ZIP code 78738, with an increase of 27.9%.


ZIP code 78732 experienced the largest increase in the average number of days homes spent on the market, with a 61.7% increase.

The largest decrease in the average number of days homes spent on the market was in ZIP code 78730, which had a 41.5% decrease.

Diving in deeper: The median home sales price in ZIP code 78733 increased 66.1% compared to the previous year in October, bringing the median sale price to $1.37 million.

The largest median home sales price decrease was in ZIP code 78730 with a 29.8% decrease.

 

YOUR WEEKEND TO-DO LIST

Check out these weekend events across the metro area.

To submit your own event, click here!

Lakeway  |  Nov. 21-Dec. 21, Thursdays-Sundays

TexARTS Professional Production ‘White Christmas’

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Leander  |  Nov. 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Holidays at the Homestead

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Austin  |  Nov. 22, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Central Texas Youth Ballet ‘The Nutcracker’

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Hutto  |  Nov. 22, 6 p.m.

Hutto Tequila Festival

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Round Rock  |  Nov. 22, 6-11 p.m.

12th annual Boots & BBQ

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Google commits $40B to 3 data new centers, infrastructure in Texas through 2027

Google is targeting Texas for future investments in data and artificial infrastructure, with $40 billion expected to be spent on adding three new data centers.

Federal, state and local leaders announced the new centers to be constructed in Armstrong and Haskell counties at a Nov. 14 event at the first Texas Google Data Center in Midlothian, near the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The gist: One new data center will be constructed in Armstrong County near Amarillo, and two new data centers will be constructed in Haskell County near Abilene. One center in Haskell County will also use a new solar and battery energy storage plant.

“They say that everything is bigger in Texas—and that certainly applies to the golden opportunity with AI,” Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said.

Also of note: The driverless car company Waymo is expanding to North Texas in 2026, Pichai said.

 

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