A groundbreaking ceremony this morning at Austin’s Pease Park marks the start of work on Kingsbury Commons, a roughly 10-acre area at the south entrance of the park, which contains 84 total acres of green space following North Lamar Boulevard between West 15th and West 31st Streets. The Kingsbury improvements — which include multiple playground areas including…
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With Groundbreaking Later This Month, 44 East Avenue is 25 Percent Sold
44 East Avenue, the tallest downtown Austin condo tower headed for the Rainey Street District at the moment, is less than a month away from celebrating its groundbreaking — and more than 25 percent of the project’s reported 322 residential units are already under contract, according to local real estate firm Urbanspace. Intracorp, the developers behind the tower…
Take a Closer Look at the 701 Rio Offices Headed for West Downtown
Nearly a year ago, we dug into plans for 701 Rio, a five-story office project bound for a 0.6-acre collection of lots at the northeast corner of West Seventh and Rio Grande Streets in the generally lower-density west end of downtown Austin. Though the development was originally expected to kick off back in April 2019 with the demolition of the existing…
Let’s Not Call This the P.F. Chang’s Tower, But Here’s a Sneak Peek Anyway
Last week’s breaking news item regarding a potential tower project on the doorstep of the Austin Convention Center was an interesting read, to say the least. Imagined by local developers Manifold Real Estate — the group, if you recall, behind the mysterious tower concept floated for the former Frank & Angies site on West Avenue — the plan could bring roughly 730,000…
Take a Fresh Look at Natiivo, the Rainey Street District’s ‘Home Sharing’ Tower
Natiivo, the Airbnb-powered “home sharing” concept currently under construction at 48 East Avenue in the Rainey Street District of downtown Austin, received a lot of attention both local and national regarding its unique ownership model after the project’s announcement earlier this year — and at the time of the tower’s groundbreaking ceremony back in August, its developers Pearlstone Partners and the Miami-based Newgard…
Downtown Austin’s Marriott Hotel Tower Celebrates Its ‘Topping Out’
It sounds a little strange to call a 31-story tower project “under the radar,” but for all its prominence, the new Marriott hotel tower rising at the northwest corner of Cesar Chavez and Trinity Streets just across from the Austin Convention Center hasn’t received all that much attention in the news lately. Still, its 613 guest rooms and…