If you've seen the way the wind's blowing regarding the construction of very tall buildings and accepted that downtown Austin's western boundary is no longer actually West Avenue, but rather North Lamar Boulevard, you might also begin to accept that Duncan Neighborhood Park is possibly the downtown region's most overlooked green space. With Shoal Creek running along ...
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Austin’s Most Sci-Fi Office Building Still Preparing for Arrival at Tower 5C
Though it's unclear exactly how the demand for physical office space will change in what we'll have to start calling the "post-pandemic era" -- assuming that era arrives sometime soon -- it seems Minneapolis-based real estate development outfit Ryan Companies and its equity partners PGIM have sufficient faith in both the needs of Austin's future and the depth of their own ...
Catching Up With the Hatchery, Transforming East Austin’s RBJ Center
A little more than two years after its official groundbreaking, the expansive redevelopment of the Rebekah Baines Johnson Center is making visible progress in East Austin. Soon, we'll be calling it the Hatchery -- and along with the construction of new market-rate residential, retail, and office space at the 17.8-acre site just southeast of downtown, its existing 250 units of ...
East Austin Development Roundup: Time Hasn’t Stopped, It Just Feels That Way
As we slide into month five of the pandemic, it's easy to feel like time no longer exists -- especially if you're working from home and keeping your adequate social distance. But time has not stopped in the least for the men and women working on construction sites all over Austin, with new buildings rising all over town despite current events. Let's take a look at what's going ...
Pease Park Has a Plan
Did you know that Pease Park is technically Austin's first and oldest public park? Donated to the City of Austin in 1875 by Texas Governor Elisha M. Pease, this 84-acre linear park following Shoal Creek up 16 blocks of North Lamar Boulevard is only predated by the public squares laid out in Austin's original city plan by Edwin Waller back in 1839 -- but those weren't exactly ...
