Austin Community College has completed its land purchase plan of Highland Mall. more ›

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The Austin chapter of the NAACP is planning a protest of Highland Mall this Saturday, April 11. People will be gathering at the mall at 9am. NAACP President told News8Austin, "We're going to encourage folks, number one, to not to shop at Highland Mall, pretend it's still closed." This after the mall closed early last Saturday afternoon because the Texas Relays were in town; the mall management defended the action by saying they lacked adequate security. [News8Austin] more ›

Several Austin establishments have announced alternate hours or complete shut-downs this weekend, due to the Texas Relays. No specific or unified reason has been offered, but all the entities have mentioned safety concerns, poor revenue in past years, and post-SXSW blues. more ›

Photo by Merrick Brown on flickr City charter revision committee wants your input on single-member districts. Executive director of CAMPO resigns effective January 15. Man attacks cop with screwdriver after the policeman catches him breaking into cars at the Highland Mall parking lot. A Hutto man is the first to be treated under Jessica's Law, legislation which deals harshly with child predators. Two adolescent boys (aged 11 and 14) have been charged with attempting to... more ›

• Texas Parks and Wildlife Expo takes place this weekend. Shuttles will be running from Highland Mall to TPW headquarters on Smith School Rd.
• Canyon Lake Gorge, formed in 2002 floods, will open for guided tours tomorrow. The next two months' tours are already full.
• Archeological conservancy v. Cedar Park family: who owns land where Ice Age woman was found in 1982?

Details on the murder that occurred on Juneteenth were sketchy when we posted yesterday (as we mentioned). More details of the event have been culled since then, and here is what the police think happened at this point. Two men in a Ford Taurus were driving near the Booker T. Washington housing development Tuesday night and accidentally hit a 2-year-old boy. The driver of the car got out (to check on the boy, perhaps)... more ›

Lately there are even more empty places to park than usual in Highland Mall's easy-to-find-a-spot-on-the-Saturday-before-Christmas parking lot. Occupancy is the lowest of any local indoor mall. There are about twenty vacancies near the gaping chasm that once housed J.C. Penney. Greyhawke Capital Advisors purchased that chasm last year and is looking for another retailer to put in the space. The boys in Bentonville have surely already thought of this, but we have a great idea for what could go there... more ›

Completion of the first leg of the new Capital MetroRail is less than two years away. The 32-mile-long Red Line will run between Leander and Downtown Austin, with stations positioned strategically near the new Northwest Austin development, Highland Mall, Lakeline Mall, Plaza Saltillo, and more. Currently, both the rail vehicle and many of the stations are still being designed, but they're already promising that the former will include Wi-Fi connections. more ›

Remember when the new Whole Foods opened up and everyone rushed to go see it? Remember those first couple months when no one bought anything and just wandered around aimlessly from aisle to aisle? Well, replace all that lame, non-alcoholic organic food with mother nature's sweet nectar of life: alcohol. Now, multiply that by three. The Statesman recently reported that we will receive not one, but three Spec's Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods over the... more ›

A Southeast Austin flea market or pulga is plagued by permit police. Know when to say when kids! An 18 year-old UT Freshman didn't. Garth Jones, long time writer for the Associated Press, dies of pneumonia in Austin. A new 3D interactive marketing and advertizing is deployed at Highland Mall. They call it Marketizing. Austin-based Plug-In Partners is parts of a grassroots effort that demands automakers put more emphasis on plug-in hybrid development to... more ›