Today, we’re just going to casually chat about some towers downtown. That sounds nice, doesn’t it? It’s certainly a lot nicer than me trying to write an entire article about one of these projects, since the updates we’re about to discuss are fairly small. Still, don’t you like feeling informed? Of course you do. Hit…
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Republic Tower Project Planned for Downtown Block at 308 Guadalupe
308 Guadalupe Street is the address generally used for a future project at the downtown block bordered by West Third, San Antonio, West Fourth, and Guadalupe Streets. That block, located directly south of Republic Square’s snazzy new incarnation and currently only occupied by a parking lot, is one of Austin’s last remaining empty downtown blocks…
North Austin Complex Plan Jumps Off the Drawing Board
An $11 million renovation of the John H. Winters Building across West Guadalupe Street from mixed-use project The Triangle is about to begin, and it’s occurring in advance of a construction project building a nine-story office building and parking garage, only the first phase of development at the roughly 80-acre plot of state-owned land around the…
Restaurant and Bar Project Headed to Fifth and Colorado’s Empty Corner
Q: There’s a construction fence up at the northeast corner of Fifth and Colorado Streets, and the food trucks have been kicked out. What’s going on? A: Located behind the former American National Bank Building, now known as the beautifully-renovated midcentury headquarters of advertising agency McGarrah Jessee, this little corner at Fifth and Colorado Streets has seen more than…
29-Story Mixed-Use Tower Planned for Red River Street Near Rainey
Back in February, we took an early look at some of downtown Austin’s most mysterious upcoming towers. One of the murkiest of the bunch was the residential development planned at 91 Red River Street, a .74-acre plot of land owned by entities associated with mega-firm Endeavor Real Estate Group. Though documents describing the project only use the 91 Red…
Block L Project Could Be the Final Phase of the Domain’s Residential Boom
March 7 marked a milestone in the Domain, for that was the day the City of Austin Development Services office issued the last site plan permit of more than a dozen residential building permits in the master-planned mixed-use development. Dallas-based Columbus Realty Partners Ltd., the developer, obtained the permit for Block L, an apartment complex otherwise…