Category Archives: Lake Travis

World Class faces foreclosure on former 3M campus

The sale of the former 3M campus off of RM 2222, near RM 620 is scheduled at the Travis County Courthouse on Oct. 1. Recently fencing has been put up to prevent people from driving through the Four Points campus. ERIN SEITZLER

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

A trusted real estate source reported that the former 3M campus at 6801 River Place Blvd. may be heading for foreclosure on Oct. 1. This comes a month after the Austin offices of World Class Holding — the owner of the 156-acre former 3M campus — were raided by the Federal Bureau of  Investigation.

Journalist Jan Buchholz, an award-winning real estate and business reporter most recently with Austin Business Journal, posted on the ATX Real Estate News website that there was a notice of trustee sale filed on Sept. 9 for the former 3M campus site, which was renamed Silicon Hills Campus LLC.

Continue reading →

Award-winning author speaks at Grandview Elementary

Award-winning, New York Times best-selling children’s author Ryan T. Higgins read some of his stories to students at Grandview Hills Elementary on Tuesday. 

Continue reading →

Hill Country Bible Church opens after a year+ of construction

Hill Country Bible Church Steiner Ranch hosted its grand opening celebration on Sept. 8 to a packed auditorium. Construction on the new building at the 30-acre site at 4310 N Quinlan Park Rd. took just over a year. JOYCE KANG PHOTOGRAPHY

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Hill Country Bible Church moved into its new church building on the hilltop near the main entrance of Steiner Ranch a couple of weeks ago. This is the culmination of many years of dedication and planning for the church, which had been meeting remotely for a decade at Laura W. Bush Elementary. HCBC Steiner has around 300 members not including hundreds more who visit each week.

The local campus is part of the larger Hill Country Bible Church at Lakeline. HCBC has other campuses and church plants throughout Austin and beyond. 

Groundbreaking for the Steiner church on its 30-acre site was July 29, 2018 

Continue reading →

LISD approves hiring 20 additional special education staffers

Parent urges meaningful inclusion 

By APRIL S. KELLEY, Hill Country News

Local parent Kevin O’Brien asked the Leander Independent School District to make “meaningful inclusion” part of the special education program, prior to the board’s approval to hire 20 additional staff members for the program at a cost of nearly $800,000. This happened at the Sept. 5 board meeting.

“I understand that there is going to be about $800,000 going towards special education,” O’Brien said. “I hope that you guys focus not just on hiring more teachers but changing the mindset of what meaningful inclusion is and why it works.” 

Continue reading →