Inside the Loop

🛒 Trader Joe's is planning to open a third San Antonio store in the Huebner Oaks shopping center. Construction could be finished in October. (Express-News 🔑)

💊 UT Health San Antonio developed a drug that has been found to more than double the survival time for patients who have glioblastoma, an aggressive and common brain tumor. (UT Health SA)

🌄 Stat du jour

Visits to Big Bend National Park grew more than 10% from 2023 to 2024, per National Park Service data released last week.

• Visits to the San Antonio Missions grew more than 8% from 2023 to 2024.
• The changes came just before Trump administration cuts to the National Park Service that removed at least five employees from Big Bend and one from the San Antonio Missions.