Remember Austin Energy’s plans for a new downtown substation at 55 East Avenue? The project’s still a couple of years out from breaking ground — dig the timeline below, champ — but the city’s utility provider is already hard at work on preliminary concepts for the station, and held the first of several community engagement meetings last night. If this type of…
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Engineering the Independent, Austin’s Next Tallest Tower
Since it’s visible from almost everywhere in and around downtown, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that Austin’s next tallest tower, The Independent, is topped out and in a late stage of construction at 301 West Avenue in the emerging Seaholm District. Roughly 80% of the 58-story residential building’s 370 units are spoken for, and the…
VIDEO: Aerial Views From Downtown Austin to West Campus
We received the video below from a fan of the site who was lucky enough to take a helicopter ride low over downtown Austin and the West Campus area earlier this month. We don’t often see downtown from this perspective, and it’s a great way to see progress on some of the towers currently underway…
Lockless and Flockless: The State of Austin’s Dockless Vehicle Pilot Program
If you hadn’t heard, Austin has a newfangled pilot program for dockless bikes and scooters. This is awesome because scooters are awesome and bikes are awesome, and if you disagree, I’ll leave you in my scooter dust, at no more than 15 miles per hour. via GIPHY So, now that we’re a month into the city’s new dockless regulations, let’s…
Digging Into New Plans for the Seaholm Waterfront’s Long-Awaited Redesign
The saga of the Seaholm intake goes way back. After work began on a mixed-use project adapting the decommissioned historic Seaholm Power Plant in 2013, the City of Austin’s Parks and Recreation Department announced a competition soliciting designs from local architects for a remodel of the power plant’s intake building, located on the shores of Lady Bird Lake across Cesar Chavez…
Hotel Planned for West 17th and Lavaca Street Parking Lot in Downtown Austin
Within the last couple of weeks, a New Orleans-based developer began its application process with the City of Austin’s Development Services Department to build a 204-room hotel at Lavaca and West 17th Streets, according to city documents. The company, HRI Development, has carried out some impressive adaptive reuse projects on historic buildings over the last 36…