After a fire at its South Austin construction site last month brought the MESA condos nearly back to square one, the project’s dusting itself off and getting back on track. A message issued earlier this week to buyers at the 45-unit, three-story condo development at 4004 Banister Lane by IMPACT Developers states that despite the considerable damage,…
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With Offices on the Way, a Historic East Sixth Street Building Earns Its Face-Lift
If you’ve spent much time drinking big mugs of beer at Easy Tiger’s outdoor patio on the edge of Waller Creek in downtown Austin, you’ll probably have a vague familiarity with the Randerson-Lundell Building directly across the water. A view of the Randerson-Lundell Building’s eastern elevation facing Waller Creek. It’s not the prettiest historic building…
This New Masonic Lodge Tower Design Rules and We Should Build It Yesterday
It hasn’t been a particularly easy road for the developers of a potential tower addition to the Royal Arch Masonic Lodge, a historic 1926 three-story brick building currently standing at the corner of West Seventh and Lavaca Streets in downtown Austin. The city’s Historic Landmark Commission has now postponed its vote on a certificate of appropriateness for the project three…
Real Quick, Let’s Check Out 10 Towers Rising in Downtown Austin
We’ve got downtown Austin condos, apartments, offices, and hotels rising all around us in shiny new tower form these days, to the point where it’s kinda hard to keep the projects around the city straight even if you’re paying attention. With that in mind, here are some lightning-round updates on 10 notable projects rising around…
Dig This Pretty Sweet Model of Austin’s Upcoming 44 East Condo Tower
Work on 44 East Avenue, one of the tallest downtown Austin condo towers planned at the moment, should kick off any time now in the Rainey Street District. Its developer, our exceedingly polite Canadian friends at Intracorp, recently opened a leasing office for the 49-floor community at 401 West Third Street, and inside you’ll find among other wonders an incredibly detailed physical…
European ‘Co-Living’ Brand Quarters Appears Headed for Downtown Austin
Quarters, a communal housing brand by German startup Medici Living Group described as the “WeWork of co-living,” appears headed for downtown Austin. That’s at least the extremely convincing case built by a series of recent city documents and corporate filings, which heavily imply the .25-acre tract at 1108 Nueces Street will soon become the next planned American outpost for Quarters —…