The latest round of expansion in the Rainey Street District of downtown Austin could be the first step towards an improvement some of us have anticipated patiently for the better part of a decade -- the paving of the alley that runs between Rainey Street and East Avenue. Discussed as a possible upgrade for at least a decade, paving this alley would allow access to properties in ...
On a Changing Barton Springs Road, McPhail’s Florist is the Last of Its Kind
There's a lot to love about the eclectic jumble of buildings at 605 Barton Springs Road -- the round windows, whimsically painted stucco walls currently rocking shades of turquoise and violet, and the long greenhouse running down the west end of the complex, its panes increasingly smashed out, allowing peeks at the few remaining plants left to run wild inside. This is the ...
Meet the East Tower, Planned to Break Ground in the Rainey District by 2021
Having topped out its Natiivo project at 48 East Avenue in the Rainey Street District just last week, Austin firm Pearlstone Partners has an only slightly different address on its mind at 84 East Avenue, where the developers' 284-unit downtown Austin condo tower plan currently known by the placeholder name The East Tower is quickly passing through the permitting stages on ...
Austin’s Waller Creek ‘Supertall’ Project Would Be Texas’ Tallest Tower
In the aftermath of the revelation that Austin could soon receive its first "supertall" tower in the form of a mixed-use project called Waller Creek by developers Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi Residential at 98 Red River Street -- a site that's sat undeveloped despite multiple evolving plans for its transformation over the years -- whichever anonymous individual ...
Natiivo Is Officially Topped Out at 33 Floors in the Rainey Street District
Only a year and change after its groundbreaking ceremony in August 2019, downtown Austin condo tower project Natiivo is officially topped out. Its 33 floors, rising at 48 East Avenue on the edge of the forever-growing Rainey Street District, will operate under a unique "home sharing" ownership model its developers at Pearlstone Partners and Newgard Development Group ...
