Hey, remember our sneak peak at downtown’s most mysterious upcoming tower projects? It looks like we don’t have to draw a big green box anymore for the building planned at 91-93 Red River Street, a rectangular .74-acre plot of land assembled from two adjacent addresses owned by entities associated with Austin-based commercial real estate firm Endeavor Real Estate Group. Its location,…
Colorado Street Goes Two-Way This Month in Downtown Austin
Have you enjoyed driving both directions on Fifth Street lately? Then you’ll probably be stoked to learn that after some serious delays, the planned two-way conversion of Colorado Street in downtown Austin is nearly upon us. On July 18, the stretch of Colorado Street running north-to-south between Ninth and Cesar Chavez Streets will be adapted to accommodate traffic in both directions, according…
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…
Five Takeaways From the Shoal Creek Conservancy’s New Trail Plan
Shoal Creek, flowing roughly 11 miles from its headwaters north of Highway 183 to Lady Bird Lake, is one of the two major creeks running through downtown Austin. That fact alone makes it relevant to any conversation about the peaceful coexistence of the natural and built environments in the urban core, but it doesn’t seem…
The View From the Top at 70 Rainey
70 Rainey, the 34-floor condo tower set to transform the skyline of downtown Austin’s eastern edge as the Rainey Street District’s tallest building, is officially “topped out” this month, with its highest floor poured and ready for finish-out. But even from the ground floor, the building is already an imposing figure on Rainey Street itself: To celebrate,…
Here’s Our First Look at the Redesigned 300 Colorado Office Tower
Though ground hasn’t even broken on the project, it’s still been a wild ride for the building planned by Cousins Properties, Ironwood Real Estate, and Riverside Resources at 300 Colorado Street in downtown Austin. What once was described as a 44-story residential tower is now a 31-story office tower, with its 377,500 square feet of office space entirely leased to oil and gas drilling firm Parsley Energy….