A six-story “micro-housing” apartment project by local commercial real estate firm Watershed Development Group has officially broken ground in East Austin, bringing 60 residences to an approximately quarter-acre site at 1812 East Sixth Street. This 34,364-square-foot building, named Sixth and Chicon after the nearby intersection, features apartments ranging from 252 to 465 square feet in size — overall, the average size…
321 West Tower Breaks Ground With a New Look at Sixth and Guadalupe
The 58-floor office and apartment tower plan known as 321 West celebrated its official groundbreaking on Wednesday this week at the southeast corner of West Sixth and Guadalupe Streets in downtown Austin, even though its crackerjack development team of Ryan Companies and Tishman Speyer haven’t actually mentioned it yet — there’s been no media blitz, no hashtag, nothing. We actually respect the hell out of…
A Defunct Post Office Ponders Its Future Under Hyde Park’s All-Seeing Eye
The closing of the Hyde Park neighborhood’s “beloved” post office at 4300 Speedway sent shockwaves through one of Austin’s most charming and change-averse districts last year, with the possibility of the 1967 building’s demolition and replacement by something a few floors taller sparking a public discourse over whether the property’s owner and potential developer Blake Thompson of local firm State Street…
Don’t Panic, but Here’s How Those Cranes Looked at Brodie Oaks
Late last week, we prepared our readers for either the silliest or most frightening demonstration this city’s seen in a while, depending on how much you think a few tall buildings represent the desecration of Austin’s soul or whatever. The raising of two cranes by developers Barshop & Oles Company at the Brodie Oaks shopping center on South…
Bad Vibes Arrive at the Brodie Oaks Shopping Center Redevelopment
If you live in Barton Hills, Zilker, or any other neighborhood within a mile of the Brodie Oaks shopping center — a 37-acre South Austin strip mall dating back to the 1980s that’s set to be completely transformed into a $1 billion mixed-use project — you might have heard that the developer, Barshop & Oles Company, is staging an unusual…
A Perennial Tower Sprouts Downtown at Fourth and Brazos This Summer
The first of two tower projects by local real estate firm Cielo Property Group set to transform a full downtown Austin block will break ground this year, according to an announcement from the developers. With Cielo now in control of the block between Fourth Street, Fifth Street, Brazos Street, and San Jacinto Boulevard, the first phase of the site’s development will…