ATX-CPF: Impact 10/9/2025

Cothron’s Security Professionals will be celebrating the official opening of its new Cedar Park location with a ribbon-cutting later this month.

The details: The business was founded in Austin in 1948 and has since expanded to multiple locations throughout the metro, including Round Rock and North and South Austin. The Cedar Park branch held a soft opening in late July but will be celebrating its official opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. Oct. 29. Attendees can enter to win a free safe.

The company specializes in both traditional and modern security and locksmithing services, including key making, electronic surveillance, alarm systems and home safes.

• 603 Cypress Creek Road, Cedar Park

Cedar Park’s Peak Performance Martial Arts Training will be relocating to a new facility in Leander after Leander City Council approved a rezoning motion Oct. 2.

The details: Council approved a motion to rezone three properties for commercial use, paving the way for a mixed-use development anchored by the martial arts studio.

The newly rezoned properties are located at the future site of a 12-acre mixed-use development called Peak Business Park. The parcels of land, located at the intersection of 183A Toll and E. Woodview Drive, were zoned for single-family residential and single-family suburban use. The council unanimously approved a bid to reclassify the property as general commercial.

Peak Performance Martial Arts Training will move into the second and third lots on the property, while the remaining parcel will be used for a future mixed-use commercial development, with tenants to be determined.

Employees of Samsung Austin Semiconductor will move into the new office building at the manufacturer’s Taylor campus by the end of November, Michele Glaze, senior director of communications and community affairs, said Oct. 8.

The overview: Glaze, speaking at a Hutto Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon, said the six-story office building boasts a number of amenities, including two cafeterias, open-concept cubicles, atriums, a fitness center and a meditation space.

About 1,000 Samsung employees will move into the Taylor site over the first two quarters, Glaze said. 

The background: Construction on the $17 billion Taylor site began in 2022. To date, Glaze said the 1,200-acre campus, totaling 4 million square feet, is home to: 

• The office building
• A fabrication plant
• Two gas and chemical supply buildings
• A utility station and building
• An electrical substation
• Water and wastewater facilities
• Two water tanks
• Three warehouses
• 250 construction trailers, and more