The redevelopment of East Austin’s Rebekah Baines Johnson Center, a 1972 housing complex for low-income seniors built on a 17.8-acre tract southeast of downtown, is slowly gaining steam — and the project’s recently-revealed name, “The Hatchery,” evokes the curious history of this property even as it creates a new master-planned community for housing Austin’s future. After a…
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Here’s Our First Look at the Condo Tower Headed for 17th and Guadalupe
Hey, remember that 27-story downtown Austin condo plan by New York developers Reger Holdings that kinda came out of nowhere over at 1615 Guadalupe Street? It’s just one of the many interesting projects going up in the overlooked northwestern region of the central city we’re stubbornly making everyone call “North By,” and now we’ve got ourselves a rendering — literally, just one — from local…
Downtown Austin’s Getting a 15-Floor Drive-Thru Bank at Fifth and Nueces
We’ve known some flavor of office tower project was headed for the Horizon Bank building located at the northwest corner of West Fifth and Nueces Streets in the “financial district” of downtown Austin since last month, thanks to the reliable canary in the coal mine of city development filings. Though much of the tower’s mystery remained intact at the time…
What’s Next for Waller Creek?
We’re big fans of the Waller Creek Conservancy’s ongoing mission to restore and redevelop the stretch of Waller Creek running through downtown Austin — which, if all goes well, should eventually transform 35 acres of the under-appreciated creek’s narrow riparian corridor into a connected series of parks and trails spanning more than a mile in total length. We’re…
East of the Capitol, Symphony Square’s Getting Taller Very Carefully
We’ve said this before, but the region of downtown Austin sandwiched between the eastern edge of the Capitol grounds and I-35 is one of the city’s most interesting areas for potential growth. There are projects in the pipeline both in and around it, but for clarity’s sake let’s focus on the box formed by East 15th and East 11th…
South Lamar’s Dead Taco Cabana Rides Again, With a Hotel and Condos on Deck
Everything old is new again at the southeast corner of South Lamar Boulevard and West Riverside Drive, as a long-delayed project perhaps best known for irritating its neighbors and not being built for years finally springs into action once more. That’s at least the impression recent city filings give us regarding the 0.93-acre property at…