Opening a local business is hard enough without having to come up with a good name, but as you probably already know, names have power. If you’re trying to meaningfully enter a community with your business and want to signify your commitment with its name, it’s a popular choice to go with something that includes the name of…
More Growth’s on the Map for East Riverside and Pleasant Valley
Texas real estate firm Presidium Group owns a significant number of properties along the rapidly-developing East Riverside corridor, to put it lightly. The company’s portfolio includes the roughly six-acre shopping center at 2015 East Riverside Drive, the Element Apartments at 1500 Royal Crest Drive, the Solaris Apartments at 1601 Royal Crest Drive, and the recently-completed…
Can We ‘Tidy Up’ Our Cities?
Marie Kondo is the diminutive dynamo of breakout Netflix series Tidying Up,which examines how people with disheveled homes can find peace and harmony by applying her approach to surveying, discarding, organizing, and displaying the objects that fill our homes, known as the KonMari Method. “Does this spark joy?” If it does, keep it. If not,…
Central Austin Development Roundup: Lots of Holes in the Ground
It turned out to be quite a news week for downtown Austin development, so let’s shotgun some stories real quick and feel extremely informed. Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell strangers on the street — the towers are coming, and some of them are pretty neat. We put the neatest one first: Block 185…
‘Another One’ by World Class Capital
World Class Capital Group, an Austin-based real estate investment firm, boasts perhaps one of the most enviable property portfolios in the downtown area. Needless to say, they own a lot. Though their acquisitions have occasionally drawn controversy, the company’s most visible impact on the downtown area at the moment is via the banners they hang on the…
On Rainey Street’s Doorstep, the Cambria Hotel is Back From the Dead
A Cambria Hotel location in Southlake. We know the East Avenue location won’t look like this — it’ll be taller and skinnier, owing to the smaller size of its lot. Let’s just all agree right now that that’s a very good thing. Image: Choice Hotels Well, well well. Just when we thought the Cambria Hotel bound for…