After more than 20 years of false starts, neighborhood opposition, and at least one bankruptcy, one of the longest-planned residential projects in Austin’s history is finally speeding toward a hard-earned finish at 1155 Barton Springs Road. Perched atop a picturesque hillside at the edge of the Bouldin Creek neighborhood with an impressive view of the downtown skyline just north…
A Hidden Railroad Relic Steams Toward Historic Status in Downtown Austin
In the shadow of the Independent, the downtown Austin condo tower taller than any other residential structure west of the Mississippi, you’ll find an unlikely relic of an unrecognizable past — the Third Street Railroad Trestle, an overgrown piece of vestigial infrastructure removed from the current context of its urban surroundings by nearly a century. Built over…
Talavera Lofts Brings High Design to Mixed-Income Renters in East Austin
Saltillo, East Austin’s most recent master-planned transit-oriented development by Endeavor Real Estate Group, transformed a 10-acre former rail yard into a mixed-use community of residential, office, and retail space a stone’s throw from the Plaza Saltillo MetroRail station — and the project is now rapidly approaching the one-year anniversary of its grand opening, despite the outbreak…
East Sixth ‘Micro-Unit’ Project Gets Bigger, but Its Apartments Stay Small
An apartment project bringing 60 “micro-unit” apartments to the site of a shuttered longtime East Austin barbershop near the corner of East Sixth and Chicon Streets has a taller new look courtesy of local architecture firm Mark Odom Studio. Planned for several years atop a 0.26-acre lot at 1812 East Sixth Street by a team reportedly led…
The Mystery of Symphony Square, Austin’s Best-Kept 31-Story Secret
By all accounts, work is set to kick off any day now at the 31-floor mixed-use tower project known as (and located at) Symphony Square — within the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen demolition permits filed for the existing office buildings at the 1.7-acre site, along with permits for the raising of the project’s 430-foot tower…
Demolition Underway at Hanover Brazos Street Tower Site in Downtown Austin
Since many of you are still working from home, we’d be remiss not to inform you of the latest development in Austin’s ongoing race to the first downtown tower groundbreaking of 2021 — demolition is underway even as we speak at the southeast corner of East Third and Brazos Streets, the future site of the 45-floor Hanover Brazos Street tower project by apartment…