Unlike a lot of downtown Austin developments that kick around in a state of limbo for what feels like a million years before turning dirt, the Texas Facilities Commission isn't screwing around. Commission documents from earlier this month indicate that construction on the underground parking garage component of the Capitol Complex Master Plan's Texas Mall project will begin by ...
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Australian Investors Weigh Development Options on East Cesar Chavez
On the eve of the Fourth of July, local architectural firm Thrower Design submitted documents to the city's Development Services Department describing two concepts for a three-story multifamily project that would theoretically be built near the corner of East Cesar Chavez and Clara Streets. We qualify the concept as theoretical, because the company that retained Thrower ...
East Austin Townhome Project Tries a Throwback Look on Tillery Street
Next door to the East Fifth Condos at Fifth and Tillery Streets in the Govalle-Johnston Terrace neighborhood, there sits a well-kept little blue house on a single-family lot -- and if the owners of two small woman-owned local businesses get their way, it will soon be replaced with six two-story townhomes. The concept for these new townhomes could not be a more stark ...
Mixed-Use Expansion Planned at State Employees Retirement System Offices
The Employees 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, ...
Hotel Planned for West 17th and Lavaca Street Parking Lot in Downtown Austin
Within the last couple of weeks, a New Orleans-based developer began its application process with the City of Austin's Development Services Department to build a 204-room hotel at Lavaca and West 17th Streets, according to city documents. The company, HRI Development, has carried out some impressive adaptive reuse projects on historic buildings over the last 36 years, ...