It’s difficult to say anything new about Hyde Park. Perhaps Austin’s most beloved central neighborhood, the area bound by Guadalupe, West 45th, Duval, and West 38th Streets has been extensively preserved, chronicled, celebrated, and fought for with an intensity arguably unlike that of any other part of the city. Like Windsor Park, the similarly posh-sounding neighborhood that…
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Getting to Know East Austin’s Chestnut Plaza
It’s kind of cliche at this point to mention how much a particular area of East Austin has changed. Still, if the breakneck pace of development on this side of town continues, it’s in our best interest to make this growth as smart as possible. That’s the intended goal of the Transit Oriented-Development (TOD) known as Chestnut Plaza emerging around…
You Are Here: Windsor Park
Windsor Park, the assumed name for a region of neighborhoods occupying much of central Austin’s northeastern quadrant, just might be the city’s most well-preserved history lesson on the post-WWII suburbanization of the United States. Laid down from scratch, streets and all by local mega-builder Nash Phillips/Copus, the growth of master-planned subdivision projects in the city was so…
You Are Here: Lakeshore
A few weeks ago, we asked our readers to weigh in on the name of the region in southeast Austin around East Riverside Drive and Lakeshore Boulevard. This was a fairly difficult question, as it turns out. 151 comments later, we’re still not sure. Various folks believe with authority that the area is called either…
You Are Here: Clarksville
Clarksville, founded in 1871 by freedman Charles Clark as a settlement for former African-American slaves in the aftermath of the Civil War, couldn’t hold onto every part of its history. Despite the neighborhood’s roots, its demographics shifted heavily in the early 1900s as land values increased alongside city-enforced segregation. The neighborhood now occupies Austin’s second most expensive zip code , with home prices…
It’s Mueller Time, Baby!
Austin’s Robert Mueller Municipal Airport closed in 1999. The Mueller planned unit development that would transform the site’s 700 acres into a new neighborhood and city district broke ground in 2007. Time flies, huh? Now that it’s 10 years later, what’s going on at Mueller? The district isn’t completely finished, but it’s certainly well on…