Austin city life since 2007.
The Employee Retirement System of Texas occupies one of the more creatively-designed buildings in the Texas Capitol Complex at 200 East 18th Street, but the agency seems to have outgrown its home, with plans for a major expansion underway. The main building, a five-story 1979 structure shaped like a Chinese wood puzzle, will remain as the agency’s main office. However, a much shorter…
Remember Austin Energy’s plans for a new downtown substation at 55 East Avenue? The project’s still a couple of years out from breaking ground — dig the timeline below, champ — but the city’s utility provider is already hard at work on preliminary concepts for the station, and held the first of several community engagement meetings last night. If this type of…
Since it’s visible from almost everywhere in and around downtown, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that Austin’s next tallest tower, The Independent, is topped out and in a late stage of construction at 301 West Avenue in the emerging Seaholm District. Roughly 80% of the 58-story residential building’s 370 units are spoken for, and the…
We received the video below from a fan of the site who was lucky enough to take a helicopter ride low over downtown Austin and the West Campus area earlier this month. We don’t often see downtown from this perspective, and it’s a great way to see progress on some of the towers currently underway…
If you hadn’t heard, Austin has a newfangled pilot program for dockless bikes and scooters. This is awesome because scooters are awesome and bikes are awesome, and if you disagree, I’ll leave you in my scooter dust, at no more than 15 miles per hour. via GIPHY So, now that we’re a month into the city’s new dockless regulations, let’s…
If you’re interested in the historic architectural styles of single-family homes, Virginia McAlester’s 1984 book, “A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America’s Domestic Architecture” isn’t just a good place to start — it’s the only place, really. This acclaimed 880-page guidebook to the design language of nearly every permutation…
Home size: 754 sq ft Lot size: 87 sqft Year built: 1940
1 bed 1 bath $435,000
Home size: 732 sq ft Lot size: 87 sqft Year built: 2008
1 bed 1 bath $415,000
Home size: 1,423 sq ft Lot size: 130 sqft Year built: 2011
2 beds 3 baths $1,200,000
Home size: 748 sq ft Lot size: 87 sqft Year built: 2008
1 bed 1 bath $479,900
Home size: 821 sq ft Year built: 2014
1 bed 1 bath $539,900
Home size: 714 sq ft Lot size: 130 sqft Year built: 2006
1 bed 1 bath $335,000
Home size: 879 sq ft Lot size: 174 sqft Year built: 2006
1 bed 1 bath $375,000
Home size: 494 sq ft Lot size: 392 sqft Year built: 1983
1 bed 1 bath $375,000
Home size: 1,035 sq ft Lot size: 653 sqft Year built: 1964
2 beds 2 baths $435,000
Home size: 1,068 sq ft Lot size: 87 sqft Year built: 2011
2 beds 2 baths $964,500
Home size: 1,472 sq ft Lot size: 871 sqft Year built: 2012
2 beds 2 baths $749,900
Home size: 5,055 sq ft Lot size: 522 sqft Year built: 2004
3 beds 4 baths $2,522,445
Home size: 558 sq ft Lot size: 174 sqft Year built: 2016
1 bed 1 bath $405,000
Home size: 2,099 sq ft Lot size: 217 sqft Year built: 2004
2 beds 3 baths $1,299,000
Home size: 884 sq ft Lot size: 217 sqft Year built: 1949
1 bed 1 bath $329,000
Home size: 6,639 sq ft Lot size: 4,878 sqft Year built: 1983
4 beds 5 baths $3,299,000
Home size: 983 sq ft Lot size: 87 sqft Year built: 2007
2 beds 2 baths $689,900
Home size: 1,266 sq ft Lot size: 1,481 sqft Year built: 1961
2 beds 2 baths $439,999
Home size: 728 sq ft Lot size: 87 sqft Year built: 2008
1 bed 1 bath $439,000
Home size: 821 sq ft Lot size: 130 sqft Year built: 1965
1 bed 1 bath $432,500
Home size: 685 sq ft Year built: 2016
1 bed 1 bath $439,900
Home size: 3,335 sq ft Lot size: 261 sqft Year built: 2008
3 beds 4 baths $3,395,000
Home size: 1,360 sq ft Lot size: 1,045 sqft Year built: 1983
2 beds 2 baths $409,000
Home size: 1,038 sq ft Lot size: 87 sqft Year built: 2007
2 beds 2 baths $660,000
Home size: 802 sq ft Lot size: 30,056 sqft Year built: 1949
1 bed 1 bath $330,000
