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The East McKinney Learning Garden is expected to be completed later this year.

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FEATURED IMPACT COMING SOON The East McKinney Learning Garden , a new collaborative eort between the McKinney Parks Foundation and the city of McKinney, is expected to be completed this fall, according to a presentation at a July 27 McKinney Community Development Corp. board meeting. Bruce Mead, a McKinney Parks Foundation board member, began looking into the idea of creating a learning garden in late 2022. The project is intended to be an eort to help address food insecurity in the McKinney area, he said. “There are a million dierent ways that you can create a vegetable garden in your backyard,” Mead said. “Giving people the knowledge on how to do that is going to be important.” offers vaccinations, physicals, wound care, lab testing and more, according to its website. The clinic takes walk-in pa- tients as well as scheduled appointments. 214-548-5033. www.dpuc.healthcare RELOCATION 8 Harry’s Boot and Shoe Repair moved from its downtown McKinney location. The shop, now located at 501 S. Mc- Donald St., relocated at the beginning of July, a company representative said. Along with shoe repairs, Harry’s Boot and Shoe Repair also offers shoe shine services, leather repair and belt shorten- ing. 972-529-6363. www.instagram.com/

The new garden will be constructed on a quarter-acre property on the corner of the new Tupps Brewery site at Greenville Street and Andrews Street. The garden will feature about 30 raised garden beds in a variety of styles as well as picnic tables, potting benches, a harvest wash area and an outdoor classroom with a teaching area. www.mckinneyparksfoundation.org.

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the demand for more memberships and resident artist spaces, the owners of the business said in an email. A larger space for LX Artworks, an art gallery featuring work by Lindsay Ekstrom in a variety of mediums, is also being constructed at the McKinney Cotton Mill, located at 610 Elm St. The space will total 4,500 square feet and include workspace, a storefront and exhibition space. Both expansions are expected to be completed later this year. www.glazeceramicstudio.com. www.lxartworks.com 10 Tasty Casa in east McKinney ex- panded its offerings to include pack- aged liquor, owner Neeta Barot said. The store, located at 1213 S. McDonald St., McKinney, began offering liquor for purchase in the store and through the drive-thru Aug. 1, Barot said. Prior to the expansion, the business operated as a restaurant serving tacos, nachos, fajitas and more, according to its menu. The store still offers food items to-go through the drive-thru but no longer offers dine-in, Barot said. 469-796-5041. www.facebook.com/tastycasa

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