Texas Orthopedics’ South Austin location is moving from Loop 360 to a newly renovated, two-story building on Walsh Tarlton Lane near Barton Creek Mall on April 27.

The overview: Texas Orthopedics’ new South Austin location will provide general orthopedics, sports medicine care, joint replacement, spine care, physical medicine and rehabilitation, orthopedic trauma care, and rheumatology. The location will also include onsite physical therapy and in-house imaging.

All doctors at the current South Austin location will be moving to the new location, along with the current South Austin physical therapists.

According to a press release from Texas Orthopedics, the new location aims to support more providers and allow for enhanced patient services.

The details: Texas Orthopedics also has offices in North Austin, Central Austin, Kyle, Lakeway, Leander and Round Rock.

• 2224 Walsh Tarlton Lane, Ste 200, Austin

Lakeway City Council awarded the construction contract for the Butler Rough Hollow Park development project to Millis Development and Construction on April 20, following a competitive bidding process with nine submissions.

The overview: The city sent an invitation to bid to contractors beginning Feb. 10 through April 1. Of the nine submissions, Millis Development and Construction was identified as the lowest responsive bidder, with a total bid of $2,072,196.

The details: The project was approved in 2024 when voters endorsed a $22 million Parks Improvement Bond to fund citywide projects, including $2.1 million for Butler Rough Hollow Park.

What’s next: Construction on Butler Rough Hollow Park is expected to begin this summer and should be completed by spring 2027.

Austin-Travis County EMS has partnered with We Are Blood to implement a blood distribution plan for mass casualty incidents. The plan strengthens the region’s ability to respond to large-scale emergencies and helps patients receive transfusions quickly.

At a glance: The Mass Casualty Incident Whole Blood Deployment Plan is intended to quicken emergency response in Central Texas by optimizing the deployment of blood units to major incidents, according to an ATCEMS news release.

The plan outlines four distinct steps in the coordination of whole blood deployment to mass casualty incidents in the region:

• Activation: ATCEMS notifies We Are Blood of the mass casualty incident and the estimated amount of blood needed.
• Rapid Staging: We Are Blood prepares units of blood and pre-packed supplies for transfusions.
• Field Deployment: ATCEMS personnel get the units from the blood bank.
• On-Scene Management: A dedicated blood officer oversees blood and equipment distribution at the scene.

From an elementary school replacement in Austin to a Home Depot in San Marcos, here are five of the most expensive projects filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation in the Austin metro this week.

1. Andrews Elementary School modernization ($52 million): This project involves the complete removal and replacement of an existing elementary school. Construction will start this summer.

2. Willow East leasing office ($25 million): Construction on a leasing office for a new apartment complex in Austin will begin this summer.

3. Home Depot ($13 million): The new store in San Marcos will be 107,797 square feet with a 28,120-square-foot garden center.

4. Discount Tire ($2 million): Construction will begin next month on an 8,000-square-foot Discount Tire location in Georgetown. 

5. Layne's Chicken Fingers ($1.1 million): A new Layne's chicken fingers restaurant will be built in New Braunfels.