Austin’s City Council is currently on summer break, but when its members return next week for the meeting scheduled on July 20, they’re taking on a fairly significant land use resolution with the potential to shape the future of housing across the city. You’d think Agenda Item 126 might have dropped with a little more fanfare, considering its…
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900 Apartments Planned For McKalla Warehouse Site Near Q2 Stadium
An apartment project planned directly south of Q2 Stadium and the upcoming McKalla Place light rail station has updated its proposal to more than three times its original size, according to documents filed with the City of Austin. The plan by local firm Cypress Real Estate Advisors was first permitted as a 274-unit apartment building replacing a warehouse structure at…
Meet Sabine Tower, Bringing Some Life to Downtown Austin’s Innovation District
Sabine Tower, a 39-story building planned at a former state pension fund headquarters near the corner of East 12th and Sabine Streets in downtown Austin, is one of several projects contributing to the city’s freshly-defined Innovation District — which seems mostly like a marketing effort to attract biotech industry tenants to buildings near the UT Dell Medical School and Central Health’s redevelopment of the former Brackenridge Hospital campus. Not…
Let’s Catch Up With Downtown Austin’s Waterline Supertall Tower Project
Aren’t you glad the Waterline supertall broke ground in the Rainey Street District around this time last year? Otherwise, the 74-story tower planned by developers Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi Residential might have found itself in purgatory forever — or perhaps even seen its record-breaking height cut in half. But instead, this 1,022-foot monument capping off a generation of Austin’s growth will likely remain the high…
Here’s a New View of the Plaza Headed for Mueller’s Historic Control Tower Site
Did you know that Austin’s celebrated Mueller neighborhood used to be an airport? Yeah, sure, laugh it up — you might think that’s common knowledge if you’ve lived around here for a while, but what if you got here yesterday? The only two remaining elements of the 700-acre neighborhood that really hit you over the head with…
Excuse Me, I Would Like To Get Inside John Treviño Jr. Metropolitan Park
For years, I’ve yearned to get inside John Treviño Jr. Metropolitan Park. The request seems simple enough, as far as hopes and dreams go — it’s a roughly 330-acre tract of former ranch land located on FM 969 in Far East Austin on the northern bank of the Colorado River, purchased by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department in 2003 and named for…
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