In April, Community Impact published 104 articles about the Georgetown area, including updates on new and coming soon businesses, recent developments, and local elections.

Here's a roundup of five of the most-read stories.

1. New European steak house opens in Georgetown

2. Bojangles updates opening date for Georgetown location

3. Georgetown officials conditionally approve 43-acre multifamily residential development

4. Lake Georgetown under drought watch

5. Four dining options to open this summer in Georgetown's upcoming The Junction development

Perky Beans, a locally owned coffeehouse, is planning to open a Georgetown location in five to six weeks, an employee confirmed.

What's special about it? Founded by Angie and Ron Diaz, the business has an existing location in Leander, according to previous Community Impact coverage.

The coffee shop's menu features includes a variety of coffee and espresso-based beverages, including ice-blended frappes, as well as smoothies, infused Red Bull drinks and lemonade refreshers. The brand's signature latte, the Boss, has hazelnut and vanilla, and a spring bumblebee latte includes vanilla, honey and lavender.

The menu also includes light bites such as muffins, croissant, bagels and sandwiches.

• 2651 E. University Ave., Georgetown

Check out the latest Austin metro transportation project updates.

Upcoming projects
Lakeline Boulevard shared-use path
Project: A 10-foot paved shared-use path is planned along Lakeline Boulevard in Cedar Park between New Hope Drive and Little Elm Trail to improve pedestrian and bicycle connectivity.
Update: According to city officials, design is 90% complete. Plans have been revised to modify an existing roadway bridge rather than construct a new pedestrian bridge, with final design and permitting ongoing.

• Timeline: 2024-26
• Cost: $10.5 million
• Funding source: Texas Department of Transportation

• Timeline: 2026-29
• Cost: $68.4 million
• Funding source: Austin 2016 mobility bond, TxDOT

Austin leaders advanced a city incentive deal for a $985 million resort project at Circuit of the Americas this spring that's expected to add hundreds of jobs and generate billions of dollars in the local economy.

The details: RIDA Development is planning a 1,000-room hotel with a golf course and 170,000-square-foot conference center on the western portion of the COTA project in Del Valle. A 30-year economic development agreement between Austin and RIDA proposed this spring would see the city reimburse a portion of the hotel occupancy tax, or HOT, generated by the resort once it's operating.

The project's construction is expected to create nearly 4,000 temporary jobs, while the resort will support about 900 permanent jobs and indirectly create hundreds more. The city deal would also see RIDA contribute public parkland and soccer fields, pay into Austin's affordable housing fund and offer resort discounts for local residents. It was widely supported before City Council advanced negotiations over the proposal April 23.

More than 53,000 students will be invited to join Texas’ education savings account program this week, the state comptroller’s office said May 4.

The details: Families will be notified by email between May 4-6 if they were awarded funds in the second round of the Texas Education Freedom Accounts program, per a news release from the comptroller’s office.

To date, nearly 96,000 students have been selected to participate, with these students set to receive about $820 million of the $1 billion state lawmakers allocated for the program, an agency spokesperson said. Of the 53,000 second-round awardees, over 51,000 are from low-income families. The other 2,000 students accepted this week were found to qualify for disability-related funding, the agency said.

The background: Families accepted to the TEFA program will receive state funds to send their children to private schools or homeschool them for the 2026-27 school year.

Proponents of the new program have said it will expand educational opportunities, while critics have expressed concerns that the program will unfairly benefit students already enrolled in private schools.