🧐 What’s happening with Sixth Street?

📈 Austin Needs More Permanent Housing To Help Homelessness Crisis, Officials Say

City officials say the Austin area needs to ramp things up in order to meet a goal of adding 5,000 permanent housing units over the next 10 years to help solve the city’s homeless housing crisis. [The Austin Monitor]

🛣️ What’s Going On With Sixth Street?

After 35 years without vehicular traffic on the weekends, Sixth Street is now testing out being open to all cars all the time. How did we get here and what does the iconic and historic street’s future look like? We’re breaking it down. [City Cast Austin 🎧]

📍 Siete Family Foods Expanding to Buda

Austin-founded company Siete Family Foods, which is now owned by PepsiCo. Inc., will move into a warehouse in Buda totalling more than 200,000 square feet, according to a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing. [Austin Business Journal]

🐻 ‘The Bear’ Might Be Filming in Austin

If actors Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White are actually in Austin filming “The Bear,” I’m going to freak out! Signs directing the TV show’s crew were spotted at Assembly Hall in East Austin this month. [Lonestar Live]

Congratulations to Sonia G. for guessing last week’s “Where Is This?” correctly! This statue portraying Barbara Jordan is located on the University of Texas at Austin campus. Sonia G. gets extra points for also knowing why Jordan is significant to Austin. I wrote a handy explainer on the lawmaker if you don’t know your Jordan facts!

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