As Austin has grown and changed in the past few years, so has the stretch of Barton Springs Road between South Lamar Boulevard and Zilker Park. New restaurants, including a microbrewery, have moved in to the popular restaurant row, as well as condominium and apartment developments. Amid this changing landscape, however, is a relic of Austin’s past: the Pecan Grove RV Park. 

On “bottle special” Thursdays, The Library Bar in downtown Austin can go through nearly 80 cases of beer – that’s 1,920 bottles. The bottles are dumped into the trash receptacles behind the East Sixth Street bar, along with half-eaten pizzas, broken plastic cups and other garbage. Like most other downtown bars, The Library recycles only cardboard. 

Texas Business reports:  An Austin-area firm won a $12.4 million military printer contract, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—HID Global, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, began construction of its operations center in Austin, Texas. 

Beekeepers in Texas are hopeful that a late-blooming wildflower crop will be enough to keep their colonies alive, despite predictions of intensifying drought conditions that have taken a toll on the bee population in recent years. 

NEW BRAUNFELS — Off a dirt road connected to ever-flowing Interstate 35, a little metal sign on a wooden fence is the only indication of what lies ahead. Nearby, Buckley Powder, a mining and construction supply company, stores large quantities of ammonium nitrate, the source of the explosion at a fertilizer depot that killed at least 14 people and injured hundreds more last month in West.

AUSTIN — Cross-breed a family business in Houston with an Austinite’s ethos, and here’s what you get: a bunch of steel plates stacked in a field between Ben White Boulevard and Interstate 35. 

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—Visolis, a student-run company from the Indian School of Business, beat 39 teams from top graduate programs around the world to claim the grand prize at the 30th annual Global Venture Labs Investment Competition (GVLIC) held at The University of Texas at Austin earlier this month. 

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—On Tuesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) told judges overseeing the licensing case for two proposed South Texas Project nuclear reactors that the applicant (NINA) is subject to foreign ownership control or domination requirements and does not meet the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act in this regard. 

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas System board of regents recently considered a $334 million plan to build a medical school at The University of Texas at Austin. 

Texas Business reports:  Dell acquired Enstratius, a cloud-management software and services provider that delivers single and multi-cloud management capabilities. 

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—Buyer Group International Inc. acquired option rights to the majority interest in  Caribou Greenland Corporation (GCG) based near the town of Isortoq, Greenland, including lands and surface rights approximating 360,000 acres, and a 50% interest in the meat processing  facility, equipment and small hydro facilities, and live herd, all valued at approximately $4,000,000.

Researchers at The University of Texas are developing technology that may soon allow individuals to be tested for a number of infections and diseases without having to make a trip to the doctor’s office. 

 Texas Business reports:  A Boerne firm won a $63.7 million contract change to provide wood products to the military, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Texas Business reports: AUSTIN – The Texas Attorney General’s Office resolved the state’s enforcement action against Austin-based legal services provider Just for People Inc. 

 Texas Business reports: PFLUGERVILLE, Texas—The Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC) announced that TrackingPoint, Inc., an applied technology company that designs, develops and manufactures the world's first precision-guided firearms (PGFs), will relocate and expand its corporate headquarters, manufacturing, and research and development facilities to a 48,000-square-feet office space in the 130 Business Park at 130 Commerce Center in Pflugerville.

 Texas Business reports: KINGSTON, Okla.—Quantum Materials Corporation chose the greater Austin area in Texas to relocate headquarters and to establish the company's research and development laboratories, officials announced.

AUSTIN — In a nondescript industrial office park in Northeast Austin, a group of hackers works in a sprawling warehouse equipped with cutting edge technologies, plotting the expansion of their organization. 

Avinash Panga and Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan, both of Austin, recently received U.S. Patent 8,394,282 for “Adaptive Nanotopography Sculpting.”

Texas Business Patent of the Day:  Two Texas residents developed a way to make structures on the microscopic scale. Avinash Panga and Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan, both of Austin, recently received U.S. Patent 8,394,282 for “Adaptive Nanotopography Sculpting.”

AUSTIN — East Austin is changing, but Isaias Hernandez isn’t complaining. The native of Guadalajara, Mexico, found a successful career selling piñatas in the traditionally Hispanic neighborhood. But as East Austin has become a hot venue for affluent young residents and trendy businesses that have displaced many Hispanics, Hernandez’ shop is benefiting from the boom.

Texas Business reports: A Round Rock firm won a $9.6 million contract to provide computers to the U.S. Army, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.  

Texas Business reports: An Austin firm won a $14.1 million Fort Hood food service contract change, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—Bulldog Solutions Inc. appointed Darin Hicks as the company's chief executive officer.