Here are 15 business updates in south Frisco. The listing includes businesses that are now open, coming soon, closed and more.

Now open

BreadHaus: The family-owned business opened its Grapevine location in 1996, rebranding to BreadHaus in 2000. The business offers artisan baked goods like sourdoughs, cookies, bars and pretzels free of commercial yeast, preservatives and artificial additives. The location also offers merchandise, olive oil, dried pasta, honey and bread bags.

Coming soon

Gem Studio: Founded in 2017 in Provo, Utah, Gem Studio is a hands-on, community-driven jewelry-making business where guests design and handcraft custom gemstone and silver pieces including charms and permanent jewelry.

The city of Frisco renewed a three-year deal with Placer.AI, a location intelligence and foot traffic analytics platform that processes mobile device and credit card data to measure and analyze visitation patterns.

What to know: Placer.AI collects location data through third-party mobile applications installed on mobile devices to measure, analyze and forecast visitor behavior. Those apps can provide proximity and location information – using GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth – when users have location sharing enabled.

When questioned about the increasing implementation of artificial intelligence and monitoring systems regionwide, Visit Frisco Executive Director Josh Dill said “We are not getting any individual data; we are getting aggregated data.”

Parekh Jewelers is planning to open a new store in Frisco, according to new signage.

The details: The business offers a selection of fine jewelry including diamond, gold and gemstone pieces for everyday wear and special occasions, along with jewelry repair and plating services.

An opening date for the Frisco location has not been specified.

• 10010 Coit Road, Ste. 300, Frisco

Two candidates are running for the Texas House District 106 seat in the Nov. 3 election.

What you need to know: Republican incumbent Jared Patterson will run against Democratic candidate Joe Mayes.

In this Q&A, Candidates were asked to keep responses within 50 words, answer the questions provided and avoid attacking opponents.

Texas school districts using the state-developed Bluebonnet Learning curriculum saw slightly better year-over-year achievement last school year than other districts, according to Texas Education Agency data released Sept. 30.

What's happening: During the 2025-26 school year, 619 of Texas' 1,200 public school districts opted in to implement at least one of the three Bluebonnet curriculum programs—elementary math, secondary math and elementary language arts.

On this spring's State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam, districts using the state-developed math materials saw student improvement that was 0.6 percentage points higher than students in other districts, while districts that implemented the reading materials performed 0.2 percentage points higher on the STAAR than other schools.

What they're saying: The TEA said the gains in student achievement are an "encouraging sign of early progress."

Zeph Capo, president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers, a statewide educator union, disagreed, calling the results "rather paltry."

"It may take a few more years to determine if this is a valid trend or simply an anomaly," Capo said in a statement.