Hey, who would win in a wrestling match: Capitol View Corridors, or God? Trick question — Capitol View Corridors are God. Okay, maybe I’m kidding just for the sake of an oblique reference to an American classic, but they both do a bang-up job hanging out all invisible up in the sky just waiting to cold-cock any enterprise of man that…
Getting to Know the Avenue, Downtown’s Upcoming Experiment in Car-Free Living
With so many tower projects in the works for downtown Austin, picking a favorite is a lot like picking a favorite child — you’ve probably got one, but it’s not polite to talk about in front of the other buildings. Still, the Avenue apartment tower planned at 721 Congress Avenue is high on my list, for a…
North Austin Complex Plan Jumps Off the Drawing Board
An $11 million renovation of the John H. Winters Building across West Guadalupe Street from mixed-use project The Triangle is about to begin, and it’s occurring in advance of a construction project building a nine-story office building and parking garage, only the first phase of development at the roughly 80-acre plot of state-owned land around the…
Restaurant and Bar Project Headed to Fifth and Colorado’s Empty Corner
Q: There’s a construction fence up at the northeast corner of Fifth and Colorado Streets, and the food trucks have been kicked out. What’s going on? A: Located behind the former American National Bank Building, now known as the beautifully-renovated midcentury headquarters of advertising agency McGarrah Jessee, this little corner at Fifth and Colorado Streets has seen more than…
29-Story Mixed-Use Tower Planned for Red River Street Near Rainey
Back in February, we took an early look at some of downtown Austin’s most mysterious upcoming towers. One of the murkiest of the bunch was the residential development planned at 91 Red River Street, a .74-acre plot of land owned by entities associated with mega-firm Endeavor Real Estate Group. Though documents describing the project only use the 91 Red…
West Campus’ remarkable growth, charted
This blog has something of an obsession with West Campus. It’s the neighborhood that lives by upside-down, inside-out rules and it’s a window into the Austin that could be. So when we got a hold of data about West Campus’ growth, we pretty much had no choice but to put it in charts. Part 1: Understanding the scale and…