Austin’s best-known architectural duo Fehr & Granger are remembered locally for the classic midcentury designs they brought to the city, with iconic buildings like the whimsical control tower and terminal of the former Mueller Airport. But this famed partnership of modernists also worked on a few projects that didn’t pan out, and we often find that unbuilt plans contain some of the…
Here’s How the Hike-and-Bike Trail Plans to Accommodate Austin’s Eternal Boom
Last year, the Trail Foundation nonprofit tasked with the stewardship of Austin’s beloved Hike-and-Bike Trail kicked off a community engagement process soliciting feedback from locals, part of a comprehensive safety and mobility study outlining how the city’s growth has impacted the trail’s environment and the experience of its hikers and bikers — and how we can confront these challenges with…
Before 911, Emergencies Had Austinites Flipping Through the Phone Book
Amid the trials of last month’s historic winter storm, many Austinites who hadn’t experienced such extreme weather here in a generation found themselves in situations requiring emergency services, with a massive surge in 911 calls straining the resources of local first responders for the duration of the crisis. Though our dispatch system certainly showed it has some limits, we’re confident nobody had…
South Austin Gets Its Own Skyline at the Reimagined Brodie Oaks Retail Center
The $1 billion plan to redevelop South Austin’s Brodie Oaks shopping center into a 36.7-acre mixed-use district with more than 1,600 residential units, 1.1 million square feet of office space, restaurants, retail, a hotel, and 13.7 acres of open space reclaimed from the aging 1981 retail center’s massive parking lots is one of the most popular…
Top 10 Downtown Austin Condos By Total Sales Recorded in 2020
These are 2020’s top performing downtown Austin condo buildings according to sales data assembled by TOWERS.net. The table above ranks the relative performance of downtown’s residential buildings using sales data recorded last year in Austin’s MLS. The Independent and 360 Condos should naturally fill top spots simply due to the number of dwellings in each building. One…
Texas’ Tallest Tower Could Break Ground on Waller Creek in 2022
If you’ve ventured outside much lately in downtown Austin, you might have noticed some new decor installed on the fences around the corner of East Cesar Chavez and Red River Streets at the de facto entrance to the Rainey Street District — banners featuring the logos of none other than Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi…