What we reported In April, Frisco City Council approved a 15-story, 295-room Hyatt Regency hotel and conference center that will be attached to Stonebriar Centre. The council also approved an agreement to buy the hotel’s conference center for $10.5 million, and plans include a 3,000-square-foot space the city will lease for $1 per year for the development of the city’s first branch library.

The latest The Frisco Economic Development Corp. and the Community Development Corp. later in April approved an agreement to provide funding toward the cost of the hotel’s construction.

What’s next General Growth Properties, the owner of Stonebriar Centre, will begin construction on a parking garage in March and the hotel in August, with a July 2019 projected opening.