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NOW OPEN 1 Bu City Soap opened a new store in April at 2396 Preston Road, Ste. 475, Plano, in the Preston Towne Crossing de- velopment. The plant-based soap maker oers bath bombs, body butters, face creams and more. Bu City Soap also has locations in McKinney, Allen and Dallas. 469-825-4130. www.bucitysoap.com 2 Tropical Smoothie Cafe opened a new location in late-April at 901 W. 15th St., Ste. B, Plano. Tropical Smoothie Cafe sells a variety of smoothies in addition to wraps, sandwiches, atbreads, salads, breakfast items and more. This is the second Tropical Smoothie Cafe location in Plano after the 1937 Preston Road loca- tion that opened in 2016. 469-298-3775. www.tropicalsmoothiecafe.com 3 Psychedelic Robot , a pop-up grati-fusion art installation that rst debuted in Dallas in 2018, opened May 26 in Plano. The company opened at 6121 W. Park Blvd., Ste. B121, in The Shops at Willow Bend mall in the space that was previously occupied by the traveling Friends Experience, according to mall ocials. Psychedelic Robot is operated by the Bivins Gallery owners Karen and Michael Bivins, according to the company website. The 40,000-square-foot art ex- hibit includes a variety of interactive and

multimedia installations from dierent artists that include fashion, sculpture, painting, photography, video, music, costuming, performance and more, the company website stated. 214-494-0489. www.psychedelicrobot.com 4 Kay Jewelers is now open in Plano. The nation’s largest jewelry store chain opened its new location in early May at 2408 Preston Road, Ste. 704B, in the Preston Towne Crossing shopping center. The company held a grand opening event to celebrate the new store’s opening. Kay Jewelers has over 1,000 stores across the country and sells a variety of jewelry merchandise such as rings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, watches and more, according to the company’s website. 469-915-3348. www.kay.com COMING SOON 5 California-based hamburger restau- rant Fatburger is looking to open this Oc- tober at 1855 Dallas Parkway, Ste. 300, Plano, in the Willow Bend Crossing shop- ping center. The franchise has locations in Arlington, Allen and North Richland Hills. Fatburger rst opened in California in 1947 as a three-stool hamburger stand. The restaurant serves hand-pressed beef patties, scratch-made onion rings, homemade chili and hand-scooped ice

cream, according to its website. A phone number for the restaurant has not yet been announced. www.fatburger.com 6 A new Firehouse Subs restaurant is being built at 901 Central Express- way, Ste. 300, Plano. Work on the 1,150-square-foot restaurant is slated to be complete in July, according to a listing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The restaurant oers hot and cold sandwiches as well as salads and more. A phone number is not yet avail- able, and an opening date has not been announced. www.rehousesubs.com 7 Salata will open a new location at 1701 Preston Road, Plano. Renovations on the 2,260-square-foot location are slated to begin in August and continue into November, according to a listing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The ling lists the estimat- ed cost for the work at $300,000. The restaurant oers dierent styles of salads and wraps that can be customized with more than 50 dierent toppings, accord- ing to the Salata website. Salata has an existing store in The Shops at Legacy development in Plano. 844-725-2821. www.salata.com 8 Activate Games plans to open a location in The Shops at Preston Parkway in Plano. Activate oers high-tech games

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that test participants’ physical and mental agility, according to the business’s website. A listing with the Texas Depart- ment of Licensing and Regulation shows that more than $886,000 in renovation work is slated to be done to Activate’s future location at 5013 W. Plano Parkway between July and the end of September. An opening date has not been announced. https://activate.games EXPANSIONS 9 My Possibilities , a nonprot that oers educational and vocational training services to adults with disabilities, celebrated the groundbreaking of its new Career Services Building at 3601 Mapleshade Lane, Plano. The event

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