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Desserts, coffee, padel: 18 Northwest Austin business updates

Check out the latest Northwest Austin business and restaurant news, including new and coming soon restaurants and sports facilities. 

Now open
Austin Padel Center
The pop-up currently features three indoor climate-controlled padel courts, a recovery area with a sauna and cold plunge, and a full bar. The facility is slated to open six more padel courts by fall including three outdoor climate-controlled courts, and other amenities such as locker rooms, a pro shop and private meeting rooms.

  • Opened March 7

  • 1205 Sheldon Cove, Ste. 2-A, Austin

What’s next—Permits filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
La La Land Cafe
The cafe is known for its signature coffee and matcha drinks, such as the Banana Cloud Latte and the Lavender Bloom. The menu also features toasts with spreads such as truffle and burrata, avocado, or fruit and almond butter.

  • Opening TBD

  • 11410 Century Oaks Terrace, Ste. 108, Austin

 
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Kathy Manning Athletic Center breaks ground in Northwest Austin

T&C Sports' Town & Country Optimist Foundation broke ground on the first phase of the Kathy Manning Athletic Center on March 30, part of T&C's Next 50 Capital Campaign.

The details: The 40,000-square-foot KMAC facility at 13398 Morris Road, Austin, is slated to open this November and will include indoor basketball, volleyball and futsal courts, providing year-round opportunities for practices, games, camps, indoor training and competitions. The facility is named after Kathy Manning, who founded T&C's basketball and volleyball programs.

Also of note: Donations made to T&C's Next 50 Capital Campaign go toward improvements across T&C's 90-acre campus, including the KMAC. Other campaign priorities extend to its existing outdoor facilities such as enhanced turf and irrigation systems, upgraded restroom facilities and parking lots, new field lighting, campus-wide Wi-Fi, tech charging systems, a children's playground, walking paths, a gathering pavilion and a new staff and sports meeting building.

 

Your Weekend To-Do List

Check out these weekend events across the metro area.

Flashlight Egg Hunt

Bunny Brunch & Egg Hunt

April 2, 6-10 p.m.
Round Rock

April 4, 9, 9:30 and 10 a.m. (brunch); 11 a.m.-noon (kid’s egg hunt)
Austin

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Skate with the Easter Bunny

No Bad Eggs Easter celebration

April 4, 2-4 p.m.
Leander

April 5, 11 a..m. (doors open)
Pflugerville

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In Your Community
Ronald McDonald House opens at Texas Children's Hospital, providing overnight stays for families

A new facility at Texas Children’s Hospital will offer free overnight stays, allowing families to be closer to their children undergoing medical treatment.

The big picture: Texas Children’s in Northwest Austin celebrated the opening of a Ronald McDonald House at the hospital with a ribbon-cutting ceremony March 30. The nonprofit opened its first in-hospital home in Central Texas to alleviate a growing waitlist of families seeking support, Ronald McDonald’s House staff said.

What they're saying: “Our families are going to be just steps away from their child's care,” said Arden Whitley, senior development director for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas.

The details: The new Texas Children’s Ronald McDonald House is the Central Texas chapter's second house and first facility located inside a hospital, Whitley said.

The house features nine bedrooms for up to 36 people, one of which is for transplant patients and their families, alongside a living room, kitchen and laundry facilities.

What's next: Ronald McDonald House will welcome the first three families at Texas Children’s on April 1.

 

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