River Park, the massive 109-acre mixed-use development by developer Presidium Group and global private equity firm Partners Group, envisions the construction of roughly 10 million square feet of apartments, offices, hotel, and retail space over the next 10 to 20 years near the intersection of East Riverside Drive and Pleasant Valley Road. It’s a stone’s throw from the ever-expanding Oracle corporate headquarters…
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Brodie Oaks Is the Future of Austin
The redevelopment plan for South Austin’s 37-acre Brodie Oaks shopping center received the green light from Austin’s City Council yesterday, with the $1 billion Planned Unit Development agreement between the city and development partners Barshop & Oles and Lionstone Investments passing its third and final reading and now expected to break ground sometime in 2025. We’ve talked a lot…
Is Downtown Austin Back in the Office?
Hey, is anybody working in downtown Austin? This sounds like the setup to a joke, but we’re actually curious — with high office vacancy rates and an increasing preference for hybrid or fully remote work after the start of the pandemic three years ago, the current state of working downtown is kinda up in the air. One Lady Bird Lake Office Tower Project Redesigned for Residential Use This cultural shift has all sorts of…
The Future Looks Bright and Tall for North Austin’s ‘Golden Triangle’
Have you ever looked at the Arboretum Crossing and gotten depressed? This half-dead 20-acre shopping center at 9333 Research Boulevard in Austin’s “Golden Triangle” at MoPac, U.S. 183, and Loop 360 was once the pride of the 1990s, a traditional strip mall with lots of big-box retail space built as a companion to developer Trammell Crow’s more…
It’s Time To Stop Asking Questions and Build a Giant Troll in Pease Park
This week, we need you to be thinking about trolls. You need to be talking about trolls. When you see a stranger, your first impulse should be to ask them about their stance on “the troll issue.” You should start describing yourself as “trollpilled.” The source of this recent obsession is the Pease Park Conservancy,…
This October, Celebrate Austin’s First ‘Legacy Business Month’
As advocates for economic development in Austin, it’s tough to see iconic local businesses struggling with the city’s current growing pains — between sky-high land values, labor shortages due to our festering housing crisis, and a municipal permitting bureaucracy largely unchanged since the 1980s, it takes increasingly deep patience and pockets to keep the lights on. That’s why we’re thrilled…