Halloween weekend in Austin means costume parties, crowded bars and late nights. An Integral Care trainer says the safest celebrations start with a plan and a group of friends willing to look out for one another.

How to prepare: Before heading out, Leylee Morris of Integral Care recommended people know who they’re going with and share locations, decide how they’re getting home, pick an emergency contact and keep phones charged.

Downtown: APD expects 80,000-100,000 people downtown. East Sixth Street will close to vehicles between Brazos and Red River streets, and towing begins at 4 p.m. Saturday. No refusal is in effect.

Trick-or-treating: Parents should know their child’s route, carry a flashlight, stick to well-lit homes and inspect all candy before kids eat it, APD Cpl. Jose Mendez said.

Community resources: Morris recommended saving Integral Care’s 24/7 helpline, 512-472-HELP (4357). People should call 911 immediately if someone is unresponsive, unconscious or not breathing, she said.

Advanced Manufacturing Partners, or AMP, is opening an advanced prototyping facility in Austin. The flagship factory from a partnership with the American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation is expected to open its doors in early 2027.

What's happening: The new facility will feature a manufacturing floor, lab space and offices with personnel including engineers, technicians and project managers. Roughly $30 million of advanced equipment will be available to help hardware companies move their initial prototypes into large-scale production.

Zooming in: The project is the first in Texas to be supported by ACMI, and is designed to serve a variety of area businesses and manufacturers, with flexible equipment to support partner companies from the defense, aerospace, medical and other sectors. Officials declined to share the factory's location or planned headcount as of this fall.

Check out five business updates for the North Central Austin area:

• Urban Egg opened its first Austin location on Burnet Road on Oct. 12, serving breakfast and lunch classics.

• Tarrant Roofing relocated from Northwest Austin to a new office on Guadalupe Street, where it offers commercial and residential roofing services.

• Komé, an Austin-native restaurant founded by Takehiro and Kayo Asazu, is commemorating 15 years of operations this fall.

• Lammes Candies is back in business after Fort Worth-based Delightful Development Co. acquired the brand in partnership with the Lamme family. Preorders opened Sept. 29, two months after the last store closed.

• OutYouth held a groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 6 to rebuild its headquarters and launched the public phase of its Dream Campaign to raise $1.3 million for construction and maintenance.

Travis County was named as an affected party in a preliminary hearing before the State Office of Administrative Hearings on Oct. 27, regarding a contested wastewater permit for the White Rocks mixed-use development near Bee Cave.

The overview: The preliminary contested case hearing for the wastewater permit began on Oct. 27 before the State Office of Administrative Hearings.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality initially granted contested case hearings to Save Our Springs Alliance, The Nature Conservancy and some nearby homeowners on July 15 in response to the opposition.

Yet others in opposition, including Travis County, were also named as affected parties at the preliminary hearing by the administrative law judge.

What’s next: The hearing process will now enter mediation, a confidential alternative to a traditional hearing in which a neutral third party will help all parties in resolving the dispute.