For years Congress Avenue north of about 7th Street was a dead zone after business hours, a statement punctuated by the Chipotle occupying prime real estate at the corner – shuttered promptly at 8 p.m. and closed on weekends. That is all set to change with the Statesman reporting yesterday on a 30-story apartment tower — void of the normally ubiquitous parking…
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Waller Park Place site prep – last phase of demolition work
Yesterday we observed what appears to be the last component of demolition to prepare the site of Waller Park Place . The three tower plan would become the largest private development ever downtown Austin. 92 Red River, shown mid-demolition in the video below, is the last of the structures from Cesar Chavez to Davis Street have been razed to…
Sneak Peek of Plaza Saltillo Redevelopment
More and more news from the East Side . CapMetro will be voting on March 21st, its next board meeting, on the master development agreement with the Endeavor Real Estate Group and Columbus Realty team to redevelop the 10-acre Plaza Saltillo site into a mixed-use, mixed-mobility development. The proposal includes affordable and market-rate apartments, as well as office, retail and…
Lamar Beach master plan would face challenges
The Lamar Beach sports fields, on the western side of downtown, near the water, have always just been there. The area has its own natural beauty, like much of the area around Lady Bird Lake, especially when bathed under twilight. But it is has always just been there. Not crying for help, or being lauded…
Tyndall condos at Robertson Hill
The Tyndall condos at Robertson Hill, a planned East Austin condo development at 8th Street & I-35, will offer a downtown alternative with views of the Austin skyline. For the better part of a year, this 171,000-square-foot East Austin condo development has flown under the radar of most, despite its highly visible location along I-35 between 8th and 9th streets….
Oracle, a Fortune 100 Company, has purchased 27 acres in East Riverside
Over the past few years, developers have been steadily redeveloping a concentration of dilapidated rental housing just east of downtown along the waterfront and East Riverside Drive. There is a Starbucks, Chipotle, and whatnot nestled in faux-urban Lego-like development of the separate South Shore District and Lakeshore projects that are new and nice if that’s your sort of thing….