By April 2019, 3M will move some 800 employees from this site in Four Points.

By LYNETTE HAALAND
Four Points News

Some 800 local, 3M employees will be moving from its 156-acre campus at 6801 River Place Blvd. to a new building off Parmer Lane in Northeast Austin by April 2019. The announcement comes after 3M shared with employees last week that it has reached a deal to sell the campus with 11 buildings to World Class Capital, a private investment firm that focuses on real estate.

The move affects hundreds of employees who both live and work in Four Points. Local 3M employees include engineers, and research and development, marketing, and supply chain positions.

One 3M employee moved to Austin 20 years ago and built in the Four Points area to be close to work. He shared his thoughts on this announcement and requested to remain anonymous.

“We have no details outside of where the new site is and estimated move date for the first wave, April 2018,” he said.

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This photo was taken by Megan Rondini’s close friend at University Park Mall in Dallas a week or two before died. A junior at Southern Methodist University, Megan had transferred colleges after her claims of rape — by an influential, Alabama 34-year-old man — were unresolved.

By KATIE BAKER
BuzzFeed

Megan Rondini, the daughter of Mike and Cindy Rondini, grew up in Steiner Ranch and graduated from Vandegrift High School with honors. While she attended the University of Alabama on an honors scholarship, she reported that she was sexually assaulted on July 1, 2015 by T.J. Bunn Jr. She did everything she thought she was supposed to do in going to the hospital to be examined in the early hours of the morning and to the police station to file the report. But, Feb. 26, 2016, without closure to her drawn-out rape case, she ended up hanging herself.

Bunn is the son of an influential Tuscaloosa family.

July 1, 2015
Megan, who stood 5-foot-6 and around 130 pounds, went to the Innisfree Irish Pub on July 1, 2015. She had about five cups of beer.

Bunn, who maintains that the two had consensual sex, later told authorities he offered 20-year-old Megan a ride home because he and a friend saw her leaving downtown Tuscaloosa alone. Megan couldn’t remember how she ended up in Sweet T’s white Mercedes on the way to his mansion.

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David and Gina Bohreer recently opened F45 Training and hosted a West Austin Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday at 7900 RM 620, adjacent to Home Depot.

By LYNETTE HAALAND
Four Points News

A local couple opened F45 Training fitness studio last month and hosted a West Austin Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday at 7900 RM 620, adjacent to Home Depot.

“F45 is a 45 minute functional, high intensity, interval training, group class that anyone can do from beginners to advanced members,” said owner David Bohreer, a sixth-degree black belt in taekwondo and Steiner Ranch resident. “What sets F45 Training Four Points there are 27 different programs and over 3,000 different exercises so you will never experience the same class twice.”

Bohreer and his wife, Gina, have a son, Jacob at Vandegrift, and a daughter, Julia at Canyon Ridge Middle School. They have lived in Austin for three years and lived in Phoenix before that.

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