As 2023 drew to a close last month, we asked our readers to weigh in about the state of downtown Austin — what they enjoyed, the challenges they faced, and how they’d like to see the downtown area grow in the year to come. Despite a slowdown in new construction and increased remote work leading to high office vacancy rates and…
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Luminary Condo Tower Moving Forward Downtown at 14th and Guadalupe
The 35-story downtown Austin condo tower planned by Vancouver-based developer Northland Living for the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT) headquarters at the northwest corner of 14th and Guadalupe Streets is going public this week, with a site plan filed with the city for the project yesterday and a press release announcing the building issued today by the developer. https://austin.towers.net/35-story-downtown…
Shaking the Dust Off on West Fifth Street With 120 Feet of Housing
One of the long-term goals of this site is the ongoing coverage of projects slowly rising along West Fifth Street west of North Lamar Boulevard, a not-quite-downtown region that lots of people just call Clarksville out of convenience but is actually inside the bounds of the Old West Austin neighborhood. This area currently sits in urban limbo, with block-sized storage facilities,…
What’s Next for Downtown in 2024?
2023 marked an interesting milestone for Austin, and it’s one you probably missed — this is the first year in some time that no new major tower projects broke ground in downtown proper. That might seem hard to believe considering all the cranes around here, but everything tall currently under construction downtown started in at least 2022. (Two student…
The Death and Life of Sixth Street
In 1967, architect David Graeber bought a former saloon building dating back to 1882 on Sixth Street and painstakingly converted the crumbling structure into his own personal residence, which still stands to this day as one of downtown Austin’s lesser-known architectural marvels at 410 East Sixth Street. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bJ-GFPkli0 Graeber lived on Sixth for more . . . …
Burnet Road’s Tallest Apartment Tower Moving Forward Near the Domain
Even with a general slowdown in construction starts across the city, things look sunnier than ever for new multifamily development in the area of North Austin near the Domain and Q2 Stadium. Despite being saddled with the extremely clumsy compound regional name of “North Burnet / Gateway” — like it or not, almost everybody calls it “The Domain,”…