• Developers commenced environmental preparations this week to break ground on the Parkside Village retail and medical office center in southwest Austin’s Circle C Ranch community. The Stratus Properties Inc. (Nasdaq:STRS) project at the southwest corner of South Mopac and West Slaughter Lane will have seven buildings with a combined 92,440 square feet. Comerica Bank is financing the $20.5 million project, which is slated for completion in about nine months. Alamo Drafthouse will anchor the development with a 33,650-square-foot restaurant/theater. Austin Diagnostic Clinic has also agreed to take about 13,890 square feet of space.
• MamaWise eco-friendly baby supply store opened near the intersection of William Cannon and West Gate Blvd. The store specializes in sustainably-made cloth diapers, baby accessories and toys. The store will also offer natural birth education classes, as well as training for cloth diapers. "I had always wanted to start a business which was just an extension of my ‘real life’. So, a natural parenting store selling cloth diapers and other products I already used was truly a natural fit," founder Jenny Wood said.
• Papa Murphy’s leased 1,360 square feet in Westcreek Shopping Center at 4404 West William Cannon. Russ Howard and Graham Carter with the Commercial Retail Division of The Weitzman Group handled negotiations as exclusive retail leasing agents for the shopping center. Neal Kieschnik with United Commercial Realty represented the tenant. Papa Murphy’s joins a line-up that includes Gold’s Gym, Smoothie Factory, Cypress Grill, Great Clips, AT&T and several others.
• Air duct and vent cleaning franchise AdvantaClean is now serving Central Texas. Austinites George and Allison McMillan own the local service area, the first in the state. The company provides mold remediation, emergency water damage and disaster restoration services, among other services. The local AdvantaClean services one-hour driving radius around the West Lake Hills community.

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