Marie Kondo is the diminutive dynamo of breakout Netflix series Tidying Up,which examines how people with disheveled homes can find peace and harmony by applying her approach to surveying, discarding, organizing, and displaying the objects that fill our homes, known as the KonMari Method. “Does this spark joy?” If it does, keep it. If not,…
Central Austin Development Roundup: Lots of Holes in the Ground
It turned out to be quite a news week for downtown Austin development, so let’s shotgun some stories real quick and feel extremely informed. Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell strangers on the street — the towers are coming, and some of them are pretty neat. We put the neatest one first: Block 185…
‘Another One’ by World Class Capital
World Class Capital Group, an Austin-based real estate investment firm, boasts perhaps one of the most enviable property portfolios in the downtown area. Needless to say, they own a lot. Though their acquisitions have occasionally drawn controversy, the company’s most visible impact on the downtown area at the moment is via the banners they hang on the…
On Rainey Street’s Doorstep, the Cambria Hotel is Back From the Dead
A Cambria Hotel location in Southlake. We know the East Avenue location won’t look like this — it’ll be taller and skinnier, owing to the smaller size of its lot. Let’s just all agree right now that that’s a very good thing. Image: Choice Hotels Well, well well. Just when we thought the Cambria Hotel bound for…
Here’s Where Austinites Say You’ll Find the ‘Heart’ of Downtown
At the end of 2018, we asked Austinites to tell us where they considered to be the “heart” of downtown Austin — a simple-sounding question that ended up generating a pretty wide range of responses. Still, even though we got some interesting takes, the survey ended up confirming our suspicions about what part of downtown Austinites would probably…
Here’s a Look at the Condo Project Replacing Castle Hill’s Graffiti Park
The development of a residential building atop the heavily-tagged remains of a failed 1980s Austin condo development was probably the least surprising end imaginable for the HOPE Outdoor Gallery, which plans to reopen in a new location in 2019. Looking southeast towards downtown from the heights of the HOPE Outdoor Gallery in 2018. Photo by Alvaroreguly / Flickr. Even before the official dubbing…
