The Rainey Street District of downtown Austin is currently home to at least four planned tower projects expected to exceed 40 floors or more in height, one of which if built would become the tallest building in the state — and with other towers like Natiivo, 44 East Avenue, and the East Tower, East Avenue is fast becoming the neighborhood’s most interesting corridor for growth besides Rainey Street itself….
Austin’s Seaholm Waterfront Project Finally Moves Forward Next Week
Can you tell we’re excited about the Seaholm Waterfront project? Our antsy coverage of the city’s plan to adapt the historic 1950s former intake building of the also-former Seaholm Power Plant into a new public space and venue on Lady Bird Lake has followed the project’s various stages of imagination since long before the appearance of a master plan for the space by famed design firm…
Recent Downtown Austin Condo Tower 70 Rainey Is 100% Sold
The sales team of 70 Rainey , a 34-floor downtown Austin condo tower at the heart of the city’s ever-growing Rainey Street District, announced this week that the community has reached the 100 percent sales mark. As of Monday, May 24, all of the building’s 164 residences are officially sold or under contract, according to representatives of local brokerage Gottesman…
Pease Park’s $15 Million Kingsbury Commons Project Opens Next Month
Donated to the City of Austin in 1875 by Texas Governor Elisha M. Pease, the 84-acre Pease Park is Austin’s oldest civic green space outside of the downtown public squares laid out in the city’s original plan, and next month the facility will debut its most significant upgrade since the park’s first major improvements nearly a century ago. Known as Kingsbury Commons, the project…
It’s Not Looking Good for the Hotel Atop a Historic Building at 15th and Lavaca
The recent purchase of a historic building at the southeast corner of West 15th and Lavaca Streets in downtown Austin by the State Bar of Texas likely indicates the demise of a previously planned hotel tower project at this location. The Bartholomew-Robinson Building at 1415 Lavaca Street, built in the 1880s but most recently serving as office space for…
Here’s Our First Look at Downtown Austin’s Horizon Bank Tower
It might not be downtown Austin’s first drive-thru bank, but the Horizon Bank building at 600 West Fifth Street is definitely our newest, originally opened at the northwest corner of West Fifth and Nueces Streets in 2004 as a Sovereign Bank — banks seriously love buying other banks, shuffling them around, changing the name on the sign five times in…