Here are 10 transportation projects currently ongoing or recently completed in Frisco. 

Ongoing

Mahard Parkway construction
Project: Mahard Parkway is being constructed, and it will be six lanes. The roadway will span PGA Parkway to US 380 and will border the Firefly Park development.
Update: The project is under construction and is expected to be completed at the end of next year.

• Timeline: late 2024-late 2026
• Cost: $11.03 million
• Funding source: city of Frisco

• Timeline: September 2025-end of 2026
• Cost: $12.36 million
• Funding source: city of Frisco, external funding

Harper Row Home, a home goods, will be closing its brick-and-mortar store in Frisco to focus on e-commerce, owner Heather Harper-Hirosky said.

The details: Harper-Hirosky has sold furniture, home decor and gifts from her store in Frisco since 2019, but she said the changing retail market led her to reconsider in-person sales.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport to celebrate the first flight from the southeast Missouri town to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

Contour Airlines started flights to and from DFW Airport, out of Terminal D, on Dec. 1. The airline connects DFW to several smaller regional airports through the Essential Air Service program, according to a news release.

Zooming in: Frontier Airlines launched two international flights in December from DFW Airport.

Weekly flights to La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, Guatemala, started Dec. 20.

Two-times-a-week service from DFW Airport to El Salvador International Airport in San Salvador, El Salvador, took off Dec. 21, according to previous reporting. 

A closer look: The Transportation Security Administration announced Dec. 1 that all passengers who do not present an acceptable form of ID and still want to fly will have the option to pay a $45 fee to use TSA ConfirmID.

Approximately three dozen new Texas laws are scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, impacting how artificial intelligence is used in state government, when local officials can raise taxes after natural disasters and how much of businesses' inventory is taxed.

The background: The changes come after Texas’s biennial legislative session ended in early June. Gov. Greg Abbott signed over 1,100 laws passed by state lawmakers, many of which took effect in June or September.

The details: Some of the bills becoming law in the new year are:

• House Bill 9, which will expand a tax exemption for business owners
• House Bill 30, which will tighten regulations on counties' and cities' abilities to raise tax rates after natural disasters
• House Bill 149, which will regulate the fast-growing AI industry
• House Bill 247, which will exempt certain border security infrastructure from property tax increases
• House Bill 1399, which will create a property tax exemption for stores selling animal feed
• House Bill 2508, which will establish a property tax exemption for the surviving spouse of certain military members