The former Home Depot store currently sitting empty on a roughly 19-acre tract of city-owned land along Interstate 35 in the St. Johns neighborhood of Northeast Austin could soon be demolished, according to a number of permits filed earlier this week. It’s only the latest update in a frustratingly long saga to redevelop the vacant store located at 7211 North Interstate…
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Downtown’s Historic State Theatre Prepares for Renovation on Congress
The State Theatre, originally opened in 1935 at 719 Congress Avenue in the heart of downtown Austin, is a striking work of Art Deco architecture — and as the first theatre in the city purpose-built for screening movies, it’s also historically interesting. But its location, directly next door to the larger and grander Paramount Theatre, has arguably relegated…
Here’s How the City Plans To Upgrade East Austin’s Red Line Rails and Trails
An upcoming project by the Austin’s Transportation and Public Works Department aims to improve pedestrian and bike access along East Fifth Street as part of two planned efforts by CapMetro to double-track the Red Line rail transit network along its existing path through East Austin. The project’s pedestrian upgrades will focus on the stretch of East Fifth Street between Navasota and Pedernales Streets, which includes the…
Wilson Tower’s Downsized Downtown Austin Apartment Plan Moves Forward
Back in April, we learned that the formerly record-setting plan for a supertall residential building in downtown Austin known as Wilson Tower had been scaled back by its developers at local firm Wilson Capital, with the firm’s president Taylor Wilson citing changing market conditions for the tower’s roughly 50 percent reduction in height from 1,035 feet to approximately 515 feet, or from…
Here’s the Plan for Transforming South Austin’s Twin Oaks Shopping Center
The mixed-use redevelopment planned for the Twin Oaks Shopping Center in South Austin by the Dallas-based real estate developer Trammell Crow Company and its subsidiary High Street Residential on behalf of the 10-acre shopping center’s owners at the H-E-B Grocery Company has the potential to anchor the northeast corner of South Congress Avenue and Oltorf Street with nearly 1,000 homes, offices, a…
Austin Finally Faces Down the Housing Crisis With Single-Family Zoning Reform
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…