It would take us years to tally up Austin’s near-countless cultural gifts to Texas, not to mention the rest of the country, but a good place to start might be the national businesses that originally found their roots somewhere around here. A lot of the original locations for these companies weren’t exactly glamorous, but that’s…
Let’s All Get Pumped at Butler Shores, With Public Workout Equipment on Deck
Despite the pandemic currently tearing apart our ability to conduct polite society, in regular times we’ve found a lot of downtown Austin dwellers consider the city itself their gym — the Hike-and-Bike Trail, exercise classes at various city facilities, and outdoor workout equipment at some of our parks. But there’s always room for more where that came from, if only because it reminds us…
In Defense of 405 Colorado
405 Colorado, an office tower by Brandywine Realty Trust now noticeably on the rise at the northeast corner of West Fourth and Colorado Streets, has managed to snatch the title of “most divisive downtown architecture” away from the Independent — and that makes sense, because it’s a pretty unusual building in its own right. Expected by 2022,…
The View From Austin’s Duncan Park Gets Better Every Year
If you’ve seen the way the wind’s blowing regarding the construction of very tall buildings and accepted that downtown Austin’s western boundary is no longer actually West Avenue, but rather North Lamar Boulevard, you might also begin to accept that Duncan Neighborhood Park is possibly the downtown region’s most overlooked green space. With Shoal Creek running along its western edge…
Austin’s Most Sci-Fi Office Building Still Preparing for Arrival at Tower 5C
Though it’s unclear exactly how the demand for physical office space will change in what we’ll have to start calling the “post-pandemic era” — assuming that era arrives sometime soon — it seems Minneapolis-based real estate development outfit Ryan Companies and its equity partners PGIM have sufficient faith in both the needs of Austin’s future…
Catching Up With the Hatchery, Transforming East Austin’s RBJ Center
A little more than two years after its official groundbreaking, the expansive redevelopment of the Rebekah Baines Johnson Center is making visible progress in East Austin. Soon, we’ll be calling it the Hatchery — and along with the construction of new market-rate residential, retail, and office space at the 17.8-acre site just southeast of downtown, its existing 250 units…