One of the long-term goals of this site is the ongoing coverage of projects slowly rising along West Fifth Street west of North Lamar Boulevard, a not-quite-downtown region that lots of people just call Clarksville out of convenience but is actually inside the bounds of the Old West Austin neighborhood. This area currently sits in urban limbo, with block-sized storage facilities,…
What’s Next for Downtown in 2024?
2023 marked an interesting milestone for Austin, and it’s one you probably missed — this is the first year in some time that no new major tower projects broke ground in downtown proper. That might seem hard to believe considering all the cranes around here, but everything tall currently under construction downtown started in at least 2022. (Two student…
The Death and Life of Sixth Street
In 1967, architect David Graeber bought a former saloon building dating back to 1882 on Sixth Street and painstakingly converted the crumbling structure into his own personal residence, which still stands to this day as one of downtown Austin’s lesser-known architectural marvels at 410 East Sixth Street. Graeber lived on Sixth for more than 30 years, and was…
Burnet Road’s Tallest Apartment Tower Moving Forward Near the Domain
Even with a general slowdown in construction starts across the city, things look sunnier than ever for new multifamily development in the area of North Austin near the Domain and Q2 Stadium. Despite being saddled with the extremely clumsy compound regional name of “North Burnet / Gateway” — like it or not, almost everybody calls it “The Domain,”…
One of Austin’s Oldest Dive Bars Seeks Historic Zoning at Deep Eddy Cabaret
Deep Eddy Cabaret at 2315 Lake Austin Boulevard offers beer even colder than its namesake spring-fed swimming pool one block south. According to historic nonprofit Preservation Austin, at 72 years old and counting the dive is the city’s oldest neighborhood bar, and these days its presence is a comforting counterargument to the increasingly posh reputation…
State Bar Adaptation of Historic Downtown Austin Building Approved
After 140 years, the Bartholomew-Robinson Building at 1415 Lavaca Street is bound for its biggest change since the ’90s. A successful vote this week from the City of Austin’s Historic Landmark Commission approved the Certificate of Appropriateness for an adaptation to the historic structure planned by the 0.14-acre property’s new owners at the State Bar of Texas, a…