With summer coming to an end, check out eight early fall events in Denton, including two Halloween-themed affairs around Denton, art workshops and live music. This list is not comprehensive.

Summerween at Water Works Park
Denton Parks and Recreation will decorate Water Works Park with Halloween decor and host spooky vendors to celebrate the end of summer and the start of the Halloween season.

• Sept. 5, 11 a.m.- 7 p.m.

• Free (admission)

• 2400 Long Road, Denton

• bit.ly/DentonSummerween

Live Music at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios
Vancouver indie-pop quartet Meltt will perform at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios. The band, which describes itself as alterna-psychedelic rock, is on tour to promote its third album, PATHWAYS.

• Sept. 9, 7 p.m.

• $28.13

• 411 E. Sycamore St., Denton

• www.rubberglovesdenton.com

Harris Ranch, which has primarily served as cattle ranch land in Denton for 80 years, has sold 53 acres of land for a new master-planned business campus, according to a news release from real estate development firm Urban Logistics Realty.

Two-minute impact: Ground will break for the first phase of development in August, according to the release. The first phase will include the construction of five industrial buildings spanning across 656,007 square feet. This phase is expected to be complete by the third quarter of 2027.

The development will undergo two total phases of industrial development that will total more than 1.1 million square feet across 10 buildings, according to its website. It will eventually span 80 acres, and individual buildings will range from 19,000 square feet to 193,000 square feet.

The new Harris Ranch Urban District development will be used primarily for distribution, advanced manufacturing and logistics and is situated off I-35 in Denton due to its connectivity and the region's growth, its website states.

Check out five upcoming, ongoing and completed transportation projects around Dallas-Fort Worth.

1. Prosper Trail construction
Project: Prosper Trail will undergo a full pavement reconstruction from Coit Road to Custer Road. The new pavement section will be a four-lane concrete divided roadway.
Update: The design phase is nearing completion, and construction is expected to begin in summer 2028.

• Timeline: summer 2028-summer 2029
• Cost: $13.45 million
• Funding source: town of Prosper

• Timeline: Final design is expected to begin in fall 2026. Construction is expected to begin in 2028.
• Cost: $35 million
• Funding source: city of McKinney

Zonda Demographics provides enrollment projections for roughly 100 school districts in Texas, according to data from the company. Rocky Gardiner, the company's director of school district consulting, said the company produces both short-term and long-term projections, up to 10 years. 

The details: Gardiner said district leaders use the short-term, one-year projections to guide staffing and budget planning, and long-term projections to plan when to open or close a school.

“We have the technology to help them see what it looks like if a school gets closed or a school gets added with how that impacts their enrollment going forward,” Gardiner said.

Zooming in: Predicting school enrollment has become more complicated since COVID-19 due to more school options such as virtual schools, homeschooling and charter schools, Gardiner said.

When Gardiner first started doing enrollment projections in 2006, the projections were primarily based on new housing, with the development patterns showing an average of about six new public school students per 10 new homes built, but that number has dropped, Gardiner said.