The final undeveloped section of the former Green Water Treatment Plant in downtown Austin, the 1.26-acre site known as Block 185 at 601 West Second Street, has remained an object of curiosity for years. Even as the plots around it developed into buildings like Northshore, the new Central Library, Austin Proper, and so on, the future of that last block…
Downtown Austin’s 600 Guadalupe Tower: Brought to You by the Letter ‘X’
The 66-story, 848-foot residential and office tower planned at the northwest corner of Sixth and Guadalupe Streets in downtown Austin got itself a shiny write-up on this very site just last week. But wait, there’s more — a new brochure for the project released only a few days ago by developer Lincoln Property Company includes a slight adjustment to…
With Demolition Scheduled Later This Month, It’s Last Call for 300 Colorado
We’ve given extensive attention to the development headed for 300 Colorado Street in downtown Austin, not the least of which was focused on the prospective building’s minor identity crisis — first a residential tower, then an office tower, with an entirely new design to boot. But before the 31-story office tower planned at the site by Cousins Properties, Ironwood Real Estate, and Riverside…
Sound Off on the Future of Downtown Austin’s Historic Palm School
Built as an elementary school in 1892 and serving that purpose until 1976, the building now known as the Swante Palm School located at the northwest corner of Cesar Chavez Street and the I-35 Frontage Road has plenty of history behind it. The building, currently used as office space for Travis County’s Health and Human Services Department, is…
What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Signature Towers’ in Austin
Everyone should like tall buildings, at least to some degree. We sometimes fight over where those tall buildings should go, but pretty much ever since someone learned to stack a brick on top of another brick, we’ve done our best to point our towers to the sky and shake our fists at god. It’s very human! But there are…
The Word on the Street at 600 Guadalupe, Austin’s Tallest Tower Plan
At 848 feet, the 66-story residential and office tower planned at the northwest corner of Sixth and Guadalupe Streets in downtown Austin will be the city’s new tallest, at least for a couple of years — someone could announce a taller building tomorrow, but this project, known as 600 Guadalupe, has a solid head start….