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
Take a Look at the 45-Story Apartment Tower Headed for Fifth and Lavaca
Over the last six months or so, we’ve seen a steady stream of progress on a tower plan by apartment developers the Hanover Company at the southwest corner of Fifth and Lavaca Streets in downtown Austin. Still, until now we weren’t certain of the building’s height or appearance — enter some new city site plan . ….
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