Over the last six months or so, we've seen a steady stream of progress on a tower plan by apartment developers the Hanover Company at the southwest corner of Fifth and Lavaca Streets in downtown Austin. Still, until now we weren't certain of the building's height or appearance -- enter some new city site plan filings that give us a reasonable impression of both: Eastern and ...
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In 2019, Let’s Make Austin Gold Again
Earlier this year, we looked back fondly on the history of downtown Austin's Chase Tower, which sported a glowing golden exterior from its construction in 1974, until a remodel in 1994 gave it the rather drab look we have a hard time remembering today. Chase Tower in 2018, showing the new exterior installed back in 1994. Image: Lincoln Property Company Austin old-timers ...
Will Downtown Austin’s 48 East Avenue Be ‘Powered by Airbnb?’
A rendering of the development planned at 48 East Avenue. Image: STG Design It's been a long and winding road, development-wise, for the residential tower planned at 48 East Avenue on the edge of downtown Austin's rapidly-growing Rainey Street District. First announced as a 35-story apartment tower by local developer Robert Lee of Pearlstone Partners back in 2014, the 48 ...
Closings have begun at Fifth & West
Contract holders at one of the four new downtown Austin condo towers have begun taking possession of their new homes. Fifth & West condos, located at 501 West Avenue, is notable for its 39 floors and a triangular shape resulting from a Capitol View Corridor crossing part of the site. Construction of Fifth & West began in 2015. According to a post on Fifth & ...
Where’s the ‘Heart’ of Downtown Austin?
Here's a question for you that sounds almost offensively simple until you start thinking about it: Where's downtown Austin's "heart?" You'll see that phrase -- "the heart of downtown Austin" -- in glossy hotel brochures and Airbnb listings and even on this very site, but where do you think of when you see it? We asked some people around the office and got different ...