It’s been less than a week since we found out exactly what we’re looking forward to at the northeast corner of Fifth and Brazos Streets, but when it rains, it pours. Thanks to bKL Architecture, the folks behind the design of the 32-story mixed-use tower set to bring two hotels and 274 apartment units downtown, we’ve got a better…
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Let’s Catch Up on the Frank & Angie’s Residential Tower Plan
Austin’s burger enthusiasts briefly entered a state of panic today due to circling rumors that longtime West Sixth Street burger joint Hut’s Hamburgers would close up shop next year. According to the owner, Mike Hutchinson, that’s not the case — but Frank & Angie’s, the pizzeria he also owns directly behind Hut’s at 508 West…
The Huston Apartment Project Headed to a Controversial East Austin Site
You wouldn’t necessarily peg the 2.84-acre plot on the east side of Interstate 35 between East 11th and 12th Streets as a fierce battleground for the soul of Austin. That’s not to say that the swooping pink roofline of the former Lucky Lady Bingo Hall isn’t charming, but at the end of the day it’s…
Downtown Austin Getting Two Hotels at 5th & Brazos Tower
Dual-branded hotels are all the rage these days, and Austin is no exception — the recent Aloft / Element project downtown, White Lodging’s Autograph Collection / AC Hotel currently under construction near the University of Texas Campus, and the Hotel Indigo / Holiday Inn Express combo over in the Red River Cultural District are good…
So, We’re Just Building Condo Towers at Circuit of the Americas Now, Huh?
Though it’s pretty far removed from my typical beat of shilling for downtown Austin condos and memorializing old tower designs, I couldn’t help but notice a fairly bonkers breaking news item in the local real estate development world this week, a story that somehow bypassed all the usual suspects and showed up in “luxury lifestyle” publication Robb…
At Last, Here’s Our First Look at the Block 185 Office Tower
The final undeveloped section of the former Green Water Treatment Plant in downtown Austin, the 1.26-acre site known as Block 185 at 601 West Second Street, has remained an object of curiosity for years. Even as the plots around it developed into buildings like Northshore, the new Central Library, Austin Proper, and so on, the future of that last block…