The Texas Lottery Commission plans to vacate its current headquarters at Grant Plaza in the 600 block of East Sixth Street, according to city documents issued earlier this month. Empire Square Group , a boutique private equity firm that owns the plaza, will lose its main tenant in the move. According to the landlord’s portfolio description, the commission occupies 92 percent of…
Details Arrive on 44-Story Tower Above Sullivan’s at 3rd and Colorado
A 44-story mixed-use tower will rise at the corner of Third and Colorado Streets, according to new city documents. Known only for the moment as Third and Colorado, this Riverside Resources project will go up at 300 Colorado Street, a corner currently occupied by Sullivan’s Steakhouse. According to documents filed with the city’s Design Commission, the tower, designed…
Canopy by Hilton Boutique Hotel Headed to West Sixth Street
According to permits filed with the city today by engineering firm UDG, a new boutique hotel concept with a ground-floor restaurant will soon take shape at 612 West Sixth Street. The permit is filed under the name Canopy by Hilton, the 12th hotel brand of Hilton Worldwide first launched in 2014. Canopy is described as a…
A “Respectful” Building Is…
So we’ve already heard the major details on the residential tower project planned at the former site of the Villas on Town Lake, a condo community built in 1982 in the pre-Rainey Street boom era. The complex sold to the Sutton Company last year, but now Dallas-based developer Genesis Real Estate Group has taken the reins, with a 40-story…
One Way Out: 5th and Colorado Streets Converting for Two-Way Traffic Downtown
It’s not something many of us have to think about very often, but you might still be interested to learn that there’s a growing movement against one-way streets in major cities all over the country. Originally built in dense urban centers as a method of ostensibly speeding up traffic flow by consolidating it in a single direction…
What’s the Latest on the Emerging Downtown District East of the Capitol?
American literary theorist Kenneth Burke famously described the nature of mankind as “rotten with perfection,” so obsessed with defining the “proper” names for everything around us that we lose any ability to see outside of the hierarchies we’ve created. I’ve never seen this observation demonstrated faster than when I use vague terminology to describe overlapping…