Austin-founded MML Hospitality is bringing a new Greek restaurant to Clarksville in the former Sledd Nursery location. The concept is expected to open in 12 to 18 months, according to a representative for the company. 

More details: MML Hospitality is also behind Clarksville staples like Clark’s Oyster Bar, Swedish Hill, Pecan Square Café and Rosie’s Wine Bar. The team isn’t prepared to share the restaurant's name at this time, though it will incorporate “Sledd” to honor the nursery’s legacy, which MML Hospitality licensed from the Sledd family, according to a representative.

On the menu: This will be MML’s first Greek restaurant, though the company has developed a Mediterranean menu at The Peacock Mediterranean Grill in The Austin Proper Hotel. 

The Greek spot is expected to serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. The team has no additional details to share at this time, according to a representative. 

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A resource center adjacent to Austin's downtown homeless shelters reopened this spring to offer health, job, housing and other assistance to those in need.

The details: A space in between two city-owned facilities—the Eighth Street Shelter and Austin Resource Center for the Homeless, or ARCH—was previously converted from a parking lot into an outdoor cooling and amenity area for homeless people called the Oasis. After Austin cut ties with former shelter operator Urban Alchemy, the space closed due to a lack of funding.

The former Oasis officially relaunched June 15 and is now called the SOW Community Resource Hub. The initiative was supported by the Sow Family Foundation in partnership with Endeavors, as well as contributions from Lowe's. No city funds are being used.

“We really are trying to make it more and more into a one-stop hub that is easy for folks to access, there's really no barriers to entry, and folks can come on-site and get connected with the service that they need," said David Gray, director of Austin Homeless Strategies and Operations.

About two weeks shy of the anniversary of deadly flooding that devastated parts of Central Texas last summer, state lawmakers approved a 115-page report chronicling what they deemed “failures” at Camp Mystic, a Christian youth camp where 27 young girls died.

The details: The family running Camp Mystic was not prepared to respond to a disaster in flood-prone Kerr County and did not act quickly enough to save campers’ lives, investigators said during a June 18 hearing at the Capitol.

Investigators Casey Garrett and Michael Massengale told lawmakers about recent interviews with teenage counselors who witnessed the July 4 tragedy, reiterating a key point from hearings earlier this year: all deaths at Camp Mystic could have been prevented if camp leaders had planned ahead and acted more quickly.

"Nobody had any idea what they needed to be doing, and it crippled them," Garrett said.

Looking ahead: Lawmakers adopted the investigative team’s report, which will be shared with legislative leaders as they draft additional policy changes in response to the flood during the 2027 state legislative session.