If you’ve strolled around downtown in the last few days and you’ve got a couple of brain cells left to rub together, you might have noticed a bit of demolition currently underway at West 15th and Lavaca Streets, clearing the existing buildings and a big parking lot from the state-owned block at the northeast corner of this…
Development Watch
The inside scoop on upcoming development in the Austin area.
Raise a Glass to Austin’s Planned Abolition of Bar Parking Mandates
Minimum parking requirements are bad for cities. Once upon a time you’d risk getting run out of town for saying this in public, but we’ve seen an increasing awareness over the last decade of these and other invisible rules shaping how places like Austin grow, and the results aren’t always great — ask yourself, why does every new tower downtown have a…
More Than 2,000 Homes Could Replace This Massive East Austin Industrial Site
An approximately 71-acre industrial site east of Highway 183 near the Colorado River could redevelop as a mixed-use project with 2,219 new residences, according to a rezoning application filed with the city this week by law firm Armbrust & Brown on behalf of the land’s owners at Texas Materials Group, which currently operates concrete and asphalt manufacturing…
Here’s a First Look at the Fifth & Walsh Offices, Rising West of Downtown Austin
You may have heard that Austin’s post-pandemic office market is kind of a work in progress. Although our recovery is going better than a lot of folks around the country, there’s still a lot of vacant office space downtown, and the future of new commercial developments coming online is unclear. So the news that Endeavor…
Graduate Hotel Planned in Downtown Austin’s Growing Northwest Corner
It’s always a great day here on the blog when our idle speculation actually predicts the future, so we’re thrilled to announce that after months of connecting the dots around the roughly acre-sized property at 1800 Guadalupe Street, we can now confirm with an outrageously cool sense of self-assuredness that Nashville-based real estate firm Adventurous Journeys Capital Partners plans to build the…
Designing Streets for Everyone in Downtown Austin Starts With You
The Austin Transportation Department’s ongoing study of mobility options and street infrastructure in downtown, known as the Austin Core Transportation (ACT) Plan, has entered its second phase of community engagement — and before you completely glaze over, we’d like to make a case for why you ought to care. With the future public transit improvements of Project Connect seemingly in the lurch at the…