Austin city life since 2007.
A historic East Austin home is still the exact same home as before — it just happens to be sitting 17 blocks north of its original address. That’s the latest news out of local real estate firm Cielo Property Group, which announced in a press release today that it has donated the historic house formerly…
After sitting vacant for more than a year, downtown Austin condo community the Villas on Town Lake, located at 80 Red River Street, is being torn down even as we speak. Seriously, we just took this — and we’re sorry for the WorldStar-style vertical video: Built in 1982 before the area’s current residential boom, the Villas site straddles the western edge of the Rainey…
Development along Austin’s East 12th Street has been a long time coming, with anticipation fueled for months — years, really — by hush-hush land acquisitions and speculation, not to mention quite a few projects in various stages of approval, though not much actually moving on the ground. It’s safe to say that’s changed recently, with one…
The intersection of Fourth and Lavaca Streets in downtown. Photo by James Rambin. We recently asked our readers to tell us which downtown Austin streets, if they were given the keys to the city through some supernatural force, they might like to close to traffic and convert into shared pedestrian plaza spaces — think of something like…
The region of downtown Austin northwest of the Capitol, just east of the historic Judge’s Hill neighborhood and labeled by Google Maps as the “North Side,” is a bit of an odd duck. As we’ve covered in more detail before, this area’s got different zoning rules than most of downtown, meaning its buildings generally don’t go as high…
Downtown Austin condos are our true loves here at TOWERS hq, so we couldn’t let Valentine’s Day pass without giving y’all an opportunity to express your deepest feelings via some puns about tall buildings, courtesy of our extremely unfortunate senses of humor. She’ll never know the truth. pic.twitter.com/xx36GjLOcN — TOWERS.net (@austintowers) June 2, 2017 We’re not the only folks…
