After a slightly chilly reception from the city’s Historic Landmark Commission back in June, an adjusted plan for the 30-plus story tower imagined above the historic Royal Arch Masonic Lodge at 311 West Seventh Street in downtown Austin rides again at tonight’s Commission meeting, and its applicants — local architects Brett Rhode of Rhode Partners and Emily Little of Clayton & Little, working with Stone Development Group and DCI Engineers —…
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The South Lamarization of East Riverside Is Coming Soon
South Lamar Boulevard and East Riverside Drive have a lot in common. They’re both what the city considers “core transit corridors,” and that means they’re ideal for dense multi-story development often in the form of vertical mixed-use (VMU) buildings, which in theory enhance the street-level pedestrian environment along the corridor by improving sidewalks and adding ground-floor retail…
The Waller Creek Conservancy Is Now ‘Waterloo Greenway.’ What’s That Mean?
The Waller Creek Conservancy has been around town since 2010, but the way CEO Peter Mullan tells it, the organization’s had some trouble getting Austinites to notice. “People tell me all the time that they have no idea where Waller Creek is,” he says. “They’ll say they’ve never heard of Creek Show — which we launched in…
At the Drake Bridge Commons, New Public Space Brings Docks Downtown
The last time we caught up with the Drake Bridge Commons — a project by Austin’s Trail Foundation imagining a new downtown public space beneath the Drake Bridge carrying First Street across Lady Bird Lake — we had two design options to choose between as part of the community engagement stage of the plan. Now, based on that input, the…
Natiivo ‘Home Sharing’ Tower Breaks Ground in the Rainey Street District
A groundbreaking event took place this morning for Natiivo, the “Airbnb-powered” home sharing brand announced earlier this summer as the identity of the 33-story tower planned for many years at 48 East Avenue in the Rainey Street District. It's rare to see the birth of a totally new product type. STR is effectively banned by downtown condo HOAs. Railyard and…
Schlotzsky’s Soon Scuttling Its South Lamar Flagship, So Here’z What’z Next
Austin-gone-international sandwich chain Schlotzsky’s has had its ups and downs. First opened in 1971 at the current site of Amy’s Ice Cream at 1301 South Congress Avenue, the growth of the brand through the 1990s eventually saw the relocation of its flagship outlet to a two-story former grocery store at 218 South Lamar Boulevard, which also…