It’s been years since Google Earth updated its 3D imagery for downtown Austin. If you’re a frequent user, you probably realized the data was a little old when you checked out the Seaholm District — it’s looked like this for as long as I can remember: As you can see, the actual satellite images receive frequent updates,…
Here’s a New View of Canopy by Hilton, West Sixth Street’s First Boutique Hotel
We’ve known the Canopy by Hilton boutique hotel brand had a new location in the planning stages at 612 West Sixth Street since last summer, but until today, we didn’t have any idea what to expect from a hotel designed for such an active commercial and nightlife district — I mean, this site is literally sandwiched between…
From Rainey to Lakeshore, North to South, Let’s Connect Some Dots
How do you think about Austin? That’s not a trick question — really, when you think of different areas in the city, how do they appear in your brain? Do you imagine individual streets, maybe districts? Or can you pull the camera higher and see things from an aggregate perspective, like you’re playing SimCity? I…
Long Before Carmelo’s It Was the Depot Hotel, Now Take a Peek at What’s Being Planned
Houston-based Allen Harrison Company has made its first public move on downtown Austin’s historic Depot Hotel at 504 East Fifth Street, by revealing plans to demolish the non-historic structures on site. Until recently, the site was the location of Carmelo’s restaurant. Michele Lynch, a land use specialist with Metcalfe Wolff Stuart & Williams, will make their case…
For Bouldin Creek’s Hooters Preservationists, Size Definitely Matters
The residents of the Bouldin Creek neighborhood in South Austin must really love wings. That’s at least the impression I’m getting from a recent Austin Monitor article covering the Stream Realty Partners development of a mixed-use office building at 425 West Riverside Drive, a large triangular lot occupied by the city’s only Hooters restaurant and not…
You Are Here: Windsor Park
Windsor Park, the assumed name for a region of neighborhoods occupying much of central Austin’s northeastern quadrant, just might be the city’s most well-preserved history lesson on the post-WWII suburbanization of the United States. Laid down from scratch, streets and all by local mega-builder Nash Phillips/Copus, the growth of master-planned subdivision projects in the city was so…
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