After three years of planning and over one year of data-gathering (hey, don’t laugh) from a migrating temporary restroom, the City of Austin is ready to put down roots, with two permanent public restroom installations headed downtown this November and a third on the way by January 2020. Thanks to recent city utility filings and some assistance from…
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At Austin Energy’s New Rainey Street Substation, ‘Modern’ Is the Look
The community engagement process for the design of a new downtown electrical substation at 55 East Avenue on the edge of the Rainey Street District has reached a conclusion — of the three themes put to a vote a couple of months ago, Austin Energy announced yesterday that the “modern” design option for screening the facility eventually won out. Here’s…
99 Trinity Site Faces Foreclosure
It’s been six years since the announcement of a tower project at 99 Trinity Street in downtown Austin, but landowner WC 1st and Trinity LP has another problem on its hands besides the residential development’s seemingly complete lack of progress — an imminent threat of foreclosure by its lender. Warehouses have occupied the southeast corner…
With ‘The Hatchery,’ East Austin’s RBJ Center Heads Back to the Future
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…
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…