Minute Fuel opened a new gas station and convenience store on Feb. 4 in Pflugerville, adding fuel, convenience items and coffee service to the area.

Read all about it: The location includes a cash checking area and a full coffee bar. A made-to-order kitchen is planned for a later date, said store manager Shofil Maknojiyamok. Breakfast and lunch options are expected once menus are finalized.

Maknojiyamok said the kitchen offerings will be shaped by community demand.

“Depending on the community—what they need—we’re going to adjust,” he said. “We’re getting a lot of burger requests, so that’s something we’re definitely considering right now.”

Mom’s Banh Mi will relocate to Hutto after previously operating in Round Rock.

The gist: The food truck, which specializes in banh mis, rice bowls and noodle bowls, is setting up shop in downtown Hutto. The operator is just waiting to receive final approval by the city.

What’s on the menu: The banh mi comes on a crunchy baguette with fresh cilantro, cucumbers, jalapeños, pickled carrots, crispy shallots and Moms Whole Lotte Love sauce. Customers can choose from beef, chicken, pork or vegetarian. The menu also has kids meals, mango sticky rice and drinks such as an ice coffee, silk Thai tea, sodas, lemon soda and hot coffee.

From new worship spaces to a car wash and more, here are five of the most expensive projects filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation in the Austin metro this week. 

1. St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church
Parishioners can soon worship at a new site, as St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church will build a two-story, 22,000-square-foot space. It will feature a seating area, a sanctuary with an altar, restrooms, a choir loft and sacristies—also called preparation rooms.

• Location: 230 Post Oak Drive, Dripping Springs
• Estimated timeline: July 1-Jan. 31, 2028
• Estimated cost: $17 million 

• Location: 800 Heatherwilde Blvd., Pflugerville 
• Estimated timeline: March 1-June 30, 2027
• Estimated cost: $5.5 million 

• Location: 3375 S. Interstate 35, San Marcos
• Estimated timeline: July 20-Feb. 26, 2027
• Estimated cost: $4 million

A new pickleball venue might be on the way in Round Rock. 

What you need to know: Project information filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation shows plans for a 15,510 square-foot facility to be constructed near Red Bud Lane in Round Rock for a future location of Paddle House, a pickleball facility. 

Remember this?: Several Pickleball facilities have opened in the area in recent years, including The Picklr in Round Rock, as well as Pickleland and Pickelball Kingdom in Pflugerville. 

Quartz and ceramic component manufacturer LTD Material LLC was awarded $1 million in state semiconductor investment funds to support its $25 million expansion in Austin, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Jan. 29.

LTD Material has two locations in the city, and in 2023 broke ground on a new 88,000-square-foot manufacturing and research facility next to its existing fabrication plant. The site will increase the company's capacity to produce high-purity quartz parts deemed "essential" for semiconductor manufacturing and wafer fabrication, according to Abbott's office, and create 40 jobs.

The $1 million award is provided through the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund, or TSIF, established under the 2023 Texas CHIPS Act enacted to incentivize semiconductor research and manufacturing statewide.

The LTD Material expansion is the latest TSIF recipient in Central Texas, where millions of dollars have been directed under the state CHIPS Act since 2023. This month, other regional semiconductor grant awards included a Round Rock component manufacturer and Williamson County technician training center.