Here’s a completely true thing you can say that will greatly irritate many people: Condos are pretty rare in Austin. Although they’re the boogeyman of choice for locals lamenting the relentless march of time, the fact is that the vast majority of new multifamily residential construction in Austin delivers apartments for rent, rather than condos…
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Two North Lamar Projects Break Ground on More Than 600 New Apartments
Two residential developments planned roughly two miles apart on the Central Austin corridor of North Lamar Boulevard are marking groundbreakings this month, with both projects bringing a combined total of 605 new apartment residences to the area — yet another sign that even a softening housing market hasn’t stopped many planned multifamily residential developments from…
ATX Tower Topped Out a While Back. What’s ATX Tower? We’re Glad You Asked
You ever meet somebody who uses LinkedIn a little too much like Facebook? Downright haunting stuff, arguably some of the worst content ever posted. Us, we log in maybe once a quarter, and are hit within seconds by a wave of private messages inviting us to join various online executive MBA programs, at which point we log…
Austin, Please Suggest Some Things We Could Put On Top of This Highway
As the Texas Department of Transportation’s Capital Express project widening I-35 though Austin slowly chugs to life, the possibility of a decade of construction crossing the central city has many presumably traumatized locals putting a lot of faith into the plan’s roughly $900 million silver lining — so-called caps and stitches, large and small decks covering the highway and reclaiming up to…
Redevelopment Concept Now in Review for Shady Grove Site on Barton Springs
After the widely-mourned closure of longtime Barton Springs Road restaurant and live music venue Shady Grove in 2020 not long after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the possibilities of the site’s redevelopment didn’t go undiscussed in local circles. But despite its current tax appraisal value of more than $7 million, not to mention a location in the heart of…
Austin’s Record-Setting Waterline ‘Supertall’ Is Halfway Done Downtown
Waterline, the 74-story “supertall” tower project poised to break the state’s height record upon its expected completion in late 2026, is approximately halfway through its construction schedule, with the building now rising past the 35-floor mark and increasingly visible on the downtown Austin skyline. The mixed-use building by development partners Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi Residential is set…