If developer Intracorp successfully brings its 51-story tower to life at 44 East Avenue, our definition of height on this side of downtown will change forever. Like we've mentioned before, this 330-unit Austin condo tower plan isn't just tall for the Rainey Street District, it's tall by the whole city's standards -- and along with plenty of other nearby projects in ...
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Our Fall Survey Results Are In, and Here’s What We’ve Learned
At the end of last month, we opened a little survey to learn more about our readers and their interests around Austin. The carrot to this survey's stick was the possibility of winning one of five copies of our recently-released Austin coloring book, and we'll be sending those out next week. For the time being, let's take a look at the results and see what we've ...
I’m Going to Pound Beers in Republic Square and the Law Cannot Stop Me
In some of my posts, I have casually mentioned the fact that I like to drink beer. Still, I've never gone quite so far as to describe myself as a "drinking in a public park" kind of guy -- I mean, I'm betting most downtown Austin condo cosmopolitans have a pretty dim view of that sort of thing. You're picturing a brown bag, aren't you? We think of drinking in public ...
At RiverSouth, Austin’s South Central Waterfront Plan Takes One Small Step
By all accounts, Austin's only Hooters restaurant is pretty bad -- and that's even by Hooters standards, which means something's somehow falling through the cracks between the Sysco truck and the microwave. If nothing else, the joint is a fun reminder of the good ol' days of Austin when a restaurant about 2,000 feet from downtown got to have a parking lot roughly six ...
The TOWERS Fall Survey: Tell Us How You Really Feel, and Win!
Between the mountain of thoughtful comments and small pile of completely unhinged rants, we got some pretty great responses from our last Austin survey earlier this year -- so naturally, we've decided it's time to pick everyone's brain again. This time, to give you an even better reason to spend a few of your precious minutes spilling out your thoughts, we're giving away copies ...