The internet’s crazy, right? You can find all sorts of stuff on here. More importantly, people put all sorts of stuff on here, and sometimes they don’t even seem to realize that other people can see the stuff. Pretend you didn’t read the preceding sentences and let’s dig into the mysterious plans for a 36-story…
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Meet the Graduate Austin Hotel, Bringing 200 Feet of Bricks Downtown
Austin’s own location of the Graduate Hotel is not anticipated to be a particularly subtle building. This collegiate-minded boutique lodging brand is set to develop a new outpost only a few blocks removed from the University of Texas campus in the far northwest corner of downtown at 1800 Guadalupe Street — and like many of the other locations designed…
The Summit Condo Project Heads for East Riverside’s Doorstep
A mixed-use project bound for East Riverside Drive could bring six floors of new residences alongside 3,500 square feet of retail space to an unusually narrow tract on one of the city’s fastest-growing corridors. The project, described in city site plan filings as a 72-unit condo community known as The Summit at Riverside, would replace two vacant retail…
An Austin Holiday Tradition Goes Car-Free at the 37th Street Lights
The elaborate and offbeat displays of Christmas lights fashioned yearly by residents along West 37th Street in the city’s North University neighborhood are one of those “Keep Austin Weird” situations that actually lives up to our eclectic reputation. Though participation dipped in the 2000s after a group of neighbors first started the tradition in the mid-1980s, the 37th Street Lights came back strong in…
Plotting a New Beginning for East Austin’s Bolm District Park
Like a number of other large chunks of city park property still waiting for their time in the spotlight, at the moment Bolm District Park is practically a blank canvas. Located directly south of U.S. 183 on the banks of the Colorado River as it meanders into a region known for somewhat resembling the head of a dog, the…
West Sixth and Rio Grande Residential Tower Plan Not Dead Yet, Actually
Everybody wants to announce they’re building a tower, but nobody wants to announce they’re not building a tower. That state of limbo is where we find a lot of projects unveiled between 2020 and 2022 but as yet unbuilt in downtown Austin, with a slowing market and some remarkably low occupancy numbers in the office sector forcing pivots and delays all over. But…