Six Grapevine-Colleyville ISD campuses will receive repairs and renovations over the summer following approval from trustees at a March 30 school board meeting.

Zooming in: Trustees approved roughly $9.43 million for repair projects at:

• Bear Creek Elementary School
• Glenhope Elementary School
• Grapevine Elementary School
• O.C. Taylor Elementary School
• Timberline Elementary School
• Colleyville Middle School

Slick City Action Park is getting ready to open its doors in Colleyville later this month, said Brett Huckins, chief operating officer for SlideUp, the company leading Slick City’s expansion into other communities.

The overview: The nearly 40,000-square-foot facility will feature three stories of slides, towering 40-foot ceilings and 15 high-speed attractions, according to a news release from Slick City.

What they're saying: “It took some effort in trying to take an old movie theater and see if it could work for a Slick City,” Huckins said. “It's never been done before, but when it looked like it was going to be feasible, we were super excited because living as residents in Colleyville [and] having something close by for our community, [I] feel like Colleyville needs something like this.”

More details: The action park will include an air track basketball and dodgeball courts, which are courts that have a padded flooring that also lets players bounce, Huckins said.

• 5655 Colleyville Blvd., Ste. 300, Colleyville

Organizations and cities throughout North Texas showcased various transportation-related plans for the upcoming FIFA World Cup games.

Dallas Stadium, also known as AT&T Stadium, will host nine games between June 14 and July 14.

North Central Texas Council of Governments, along with the North Texas FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee, DART, Trinity Metro, Trinity Railway Express and the Texas Department of Transportation, were part of a press conference April 2 to discuss the myriad of travel options.

A closer look: The transportation plan includes the use of public transit, how to get to games and the FIFA Fan Festival, as well as what traffic would look like on various highways across North Texas.

According to the presentation, the final plan was submitted to FIFA on March 31.

The specifics: NCTCOG developed a creative approach for match day transportation, knowing FIFA spectators rely far more heavily on public transit than typical crowds at events at Dallas Stadium, Morris said.

The Texas power grid is undergoing “generational” growth, experts said during the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ annual summit March 31 in Round Rock. Much of that growth is due to data centers—an industry under scrutiny from state lawmakers as some Texas communities push back against proposed developments.

The big picture: Over 2,000 projects totaling 453,000 megawatts are currently looking to connect to the state grid, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas said April 1. About 357,000 megawatts of those connection requests are potential data centers, ERCOT documents show.

Looking ahead: Communities should take the lead on discussions about individual data center projects, Vegas told reporters. He said that when “communities that are ready to support those investments,” ERCOT is prepared to help data centers connect to the grid.

During a March 31 discussion on data centers, panelists noted that the projects have an “increasingly high” negative reputation in communities across the state. Austin consultant Eric Goff said developers often need to make commitments to local residents to earn their support for data center proposals.