After years of extensive planning, the Austin Children’s Shelter has completed its new facility that will offer the ability to provide emergency shelter as well as longer term residential care for abused and neglected children and youth. In this expanded facility, ACS will ultimately care for as many as 78 children at a time and increase its programs to include an on-site charter school and family-based support services. Built on 13 acres adjacent to Mueller, the new campus of five “cottages” and three program support buildings is designed to safeguard children with some areas in the campus not generally open to the public.

Please join us for this one opportunity to tour the entire site of our new campus and celebrate our 25th anniversary on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 from 5:00-7:00pm.

Activities will include:

• Campus tours by Austin Children’s Shelter Guild members
• Minis and Friends – Little Horses, Big Hearts
• ACS Kids Council Lemonade Stand
• Live Music from The Biscuit Brothers (courtesy of A Texas Christmas Carol and other artists), and musical artist Elizabeth Wills
• Tastings from Which Wich, Tres Amigos, Stardust Pastry and EL CHILE CAF É Y CANTINA
• Interactive Play-Doh Station for the kids
• Visit Da Bull, dancers and coaching staff of the Austin Toros in the gym

Frost Bank is celebrating their grand opening in the Mueller retail center with three days of family-friendly fun! See more information about the festivities below.

Thursday, September 10
7 am to 9 am
TexMex Breakfast from Lee’s Meat Market

Thursday, September 10
3 pm
The Frost Mueller Financial Center offers American Sign Language access through Deaf Link’s Video Remote Interpreting to the deaf and hard of hearing customers. Frost is inviting the deaf community (any anyone else ionterested in this technology) to attend a presentation demonstrating this service.

Friday, September 11
7 am to 9 am
Chuckwagon breakfast in the parking lot

Saturday, September 12
11 am to 1 pm
Family Fun Day: Frost Bank will be serving barbecue from Hoover’s and dessert from Upper Crust Bakery for lunch. For the kids, they will be giving away 100 Build-A-Bears from the Build-A-Bear Workshop. They will also have music provided by the Reagan High School Drum Line!

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for these wonderful community events all happening at Frost Bank in the Mueller retail center at 1200 Barbara Jordan Blvd.

SEDL, the first corporate headquarters to open in Mueller, has received an $80,000 grant to help the Lunar and Planetary Institute reach 18- to 35-year-olds with a new educational tool, MyMoon. This portal will provide information on lunar science and research. SEDL will examine the community-building process and social networking environment to advise NASA and the Institute over the next four years. 

Click here to read the entire article.

10 years ago in May 1999, the last flight left Robert Mueller Municipal Airport and signified the closing of Austin’s first airport. The return flights landed at Austin Bergstrom International Airport and planning for how to reuse the 711 acres that was the former airport continued. Now, with over 20 years of planning and four years of construction, progress in Mueller can be widely seen. Over 500 homes are sold and over 3,000 employees call Mueller home. 75 acres of parks are completed and three historic structures still stand. To learn more about the historic timeline behind Mueller, visit the “History” page under the “Explore” tab on MuellerAustin.com.

The Austin American-Statesman profiled Mueller with a Sunday front page feature that includes an online interactive piece and two photo galleries providing a thorough update of Mueller. Follow the link below to view the story.

http://www.statesman.com/search/content/business/stories/other/03/01/0301mueller.html