The owners of two adjacent office parks along the MoPac frontage road containing three buildings and a parking garage are now seeking a 12.26-acre rezoning for a mixed-use redevelopment that could build more than half a million square feet near Steck Avenue in Northwest Austin. The Park and Park North office complexes, respectively dating back to 1981…
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Great Hills Market Shopping Center Plans Partial Demolition in North Austin
Demolition permits are now pending with the City of Austin for two buildings inside the Great Hills Market shopping center, a 17.23-acre strip mall dating back to the late 1980s located between Jollyville Road, Great Hills Trail, and Research Boulevard near U.S. Highway 183. The sites set for demolition are the former Romano’s Macaroni Grill…
Demolition Pending for North Lamar Apartment Site Near Crestview Station
Demolition permits are now pending for approximately five buildings spread across four adjacent properties near the northeast corner of North Lamar Boulevard and West St. Johns Avenue in the Highland neighborhood of Central Austin, clearing the approximately 3.6-acre land assembly for a 378-unit apartment and retail building planned by residential mega-developers Greystar. The four tracts…
Demolition Planned for East Austin’s Most Mysterious Abandoned Strip Mall
The history of the shopping center at the northeast corner of Ed Bluestein Boulevard and FM 969 — also known as 183 and East MLK Jr. Boulevard — ends before it begins. Known at various points of its non-development as East Pointe, Palm Square, and Journey Plaza, the effort to build a strip mall in…
Zephyr Condos, Not Montage, Build a Zilker Homage on South Lamar
This week, we’ve learned that the 182-unit condo project by local developers Pearlstone Partners currently under construction atop the site of a former used car lot at 2323 South Lamar Boulevard would not be called Montage after all — which is kinda funny, because I have an insulated tumbler sitting in my kitchen cabinet with that name on…
Gaining 50 Floors and Saving a Dive Bar on South Congress Avenue
Although we were aware back in 2023 that New York-based megadeveloper the Related Companies was looking to redevelop a roughly six-acre collection of uninspiring properties at the corner of South Congress Avenue and West Riverside Drive, you never really know what that means until the renderings drop — and drop they did, in a late-breaking story last Friday…