🏠 Bungalow returns to Rainey

🚒 City To Expand Number of Homes at Risk of Wildfire Damage

Austin City Council members later this month plan to designate roughly half of all city land as being vulnerable to burning during a wildfire. [KUT]

🚀 Musk’s SpaceX Receives Millions in State Grant

SpaceX’s Bastrop facility will grow by 1 million square feet in the next three years after the state gave Elon Musk’s company a $17.3 million Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant. [KXAN]

🗣️ This Week: Austin at SXSW and the City’s Hiring Plan

Mayor Kirk Watson and City Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison spoke on Austin’s proactive approach to housing at SXSW this week. We’re chatting about that, and the city’s massive hiring push in an attempt to support workers affected by the Trump administration’s federal layoffs. [City Cast Austin 🎧]

🫶 Sylvester Turner Lying in Honor at Capitol

Longtime Texas lawmaker and former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner, who died earlier this month, will lie in honor at the Texas Capitol through Friday. [CBS Austin]