A portion of Bravo Park at Sloan Corners is now open.

Allen City Council unanimously approved accepting a donation of about 9.65 acres of parkland located within the Sloan Corners development at an April 28 meeting.

The overview: Sloan Corners is a mixed-use development located at the southwest corner of US 75 and SH 121. Developed by Dallas-based Billingsley Co., the project will feature retail, restaurants and office space when fully built out. The development will also include Bravo Park, a 30-acre park including walking trails, a pond, pickleball courts and dog parks, Billingsley Co. founder and partner Lucy Billingsley said.

The 9.65 acres donated to the city represents the first of several phases, Deputy City Manager Eric Strong said.

“As they continue to build more and more on that development, they will continue to add to the park,” Strong said.

The park will serve all multifamily residents at Sloan Corners and visitors to the community, city documents state.

Academy Sports + Outdoors is expected to open in Fairview Town Center later this year, according to a news release from the Fairview Economic Development Corp.

The gist: The store, which will be located near Fairview’s border with Allen, will fill a space formerly occupied by Macy’s. The business offers sporting and outdoors equipment such as apparel, footwear, hunting gear, tents and more.

Also of note: Renovation work on the nearly 66,000-square-foot space is expected to cost $3.6 million, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

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Camp Mystic, the Texas Hill Country camp where 28 people died in catastrophic flooding last July, announced April 30 that it will not welcome campers this summer.

The background: The decision comes nearly 10 months after 25 young campers, two teenage counselors and the camp’s executive director, Dick Eastland, died as the Guadalupe River camp flooded July 4. Camp Mystic’s owners had planned to open a secondary campsite called Cypress Lake in late May, but backed down at the urging of flood victims’ families and state lawmakers.

What's happening: A spokesperson for the Department of State Health Services, which licenses youth camps, confirmed to Community Impact that Camp Mystic had withdrawn its application to operate in summer 2026. 

In a statement, Camp Mystic officials said they did not want to “unintentionally effect further harm” on flood victims and their families.

"We also recognize that over 800 girls want to return to Camp Mystic Cypress Lake this summer," they wrote. "Our special bond with our Camp Mystic families does not change or end with the announcement."