Several local businesses in the Cedar Park area have recently opened, while others are planning new locations or changes.

Recent openings include:

• MonkeySports, a sporting goods store that opened Sept. 12 at The Crossover.

• Strong Sprouts, an indoor playground and children's gym that opened Sept. 23.

• Sangam Chettinad Indian Cuisine & Bar, which opened Sept. 22.

• Patel Brothers, an Indian grocery store chain that opened a new location Sept. 9.

• Birds Barbershop, which opened its 11th location Sept. 25.

Upcoming developments and filings with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation indicate:

• Malina Flowers is expected to open a Cedar Park store in late November.

• Kilwins plans to complete renovations for a new location in May 2027.

• 7 Brew is planning a new drive-through coffee shop on Whitestone Boulevard.

• J. Crew Factory is coming to The Parke shopping center.

• Airway Dentists is coming to the Shops at Cypress Creek.

Blackbird Massage + Recovery in Cedar Park relocated to a new space on Aug. 15 and added new recovery services, according to owners Rachael and Michael Gagnon.

A closer look: The new location is in the same shopping center as the original but is double the size. With this expansion, the business added four new services:

• Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy

• Localized cryotherapy

• A full-body red light chamber

• BOA MAX 2 compression therapy

What else? The business also recently launched an esthetics department offering custom facials, a CryoFacial, glycolic resurfacing series and Dermaflash. These offerings are in addition to a variety of massages, including Swedish, deep tissue, sports, Thai table and mat, maternity, post-op, couples and manual lymphatic drainage. To celebrate the move, Blackbird Massage + Recovery will host a ribbon cutting with the Cedar Park Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 13.

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Georgetown to reduce rideGTX operation hours, increase base cost: RideGTX, the city of Georgetown's ride voucher service, will soon eliminate overnight hours and increase its base price to combat rising costs. Once the changes go into effect, rideGTX will operate from 6 a.m. to midnight and cost a base fee of $5.

TxDOT, Mobility Authority seek public input on 290 Toll extension into Bastrop County: The two agencies are accepting comments on proposed improvements to about 15 miles of Hwy. 290 until Oct. 30. The entities are evaluating the feasibility of extending tolled main lanes alongside existing nontolled lanes, adding signalized intersections, and enhancing pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure.

Travis County election staff are working through more than 35,000 voter registration records that the Texas Department of Public Safety failed to send to the county, including some submitted nearly a year ago.

What happened: DPS said in a Sept. 24 statement that a third-party vendor whose software handles the daily batch files to the state updated its software in October 2025, cutting off parts of some records and leaving the state unable to process them.

What voters should know: Registrations count from the day of the DPS transaction, so anyone who registered through DPS on or before Oct. 5 is eligible for the November election even if the county processes the record later, according to the Secretary of State's office.

Anyone missing from the rolls after registering online through DPS can still vote a provisional ballot, which officials will count once they confirm the DPS transaction, according to the Secretary of State's office.

Voters can check their status at votetexas.gov or with Travis County.