If you live in Barton Hills, Zilker, or any other neighborhood within a mile of the Brodie Oaks shopping center — a 37-acre South Austin strip mall dating back to the 1980s that’s set to be completely transformed into a $1 billion mixed-use project — you might have heard that the developer, Barshop & Oles Company, is staging an unusual…
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A Perennial Tower Sprouts Downtown at Fourth and Brazos This Summer
The first of two tower projects by local real estate firm Cielo Property Group set to transform a full downtown Austin block will break ground this year, according to an announcement from the developers. With Cielo now in control of the block between Fourth Street, Fifth Street, Brazos Street, and San Jacinto Boulevard, the first phase of the site’s development will…
The Annie B Apartment Tower Moves Forward in West Downtown
The 34-story apartment tower known as Annie B planned at the northeast corner of West 12th and San Antonio Streets in downtown Austin’s west end has reached a critical milestone towards construction this week, with the city’s Design Commission voting to recommend the project for its density bonus at its meeting Monday. Rising 400 feet at 416 West…
Here’s Our First Look at the 65-Floor Tower Headed for Second and Trinity
Remember the “extraordinary” downtown Austin condo and hotel tower planned by our friendly local Canadian developers Intracorp Homes at 307 East Second Street? Thanks to the project’s appearance at next week’s meeting of the city’s Design Commission seeking its density bonus, we’ve now got our first glimpse at the 65-story, 756-foot tower imagined for this 0.53-acre site at the corner of East…
Comedy Club Linked to Joe Rogan Planned for Austin’s Ritz Theater
The historic Ritz Theater at 320 East Sixth Street will soon host a comedy club linked to recently controversial podcast host and new Austin resident Joe Rogan, according to a number of local property filings and an application to the city’s Historic Landmark Commission. A permit seeking to install new signage at the front of the building is listed…
Psst, Hey Kid! You Wanna Buy Two Blocks in Downtown Austin?
It’s not exactly a fan-favorite building, but we’re still quite fond of the concrete-heavy 1970s institutional architecture of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas headquarters in downtown Austin. A product of the city’s 1960s urban renewal, the two-building complex spanning two full blocks at 1000 Red River Street opened its original western structure in 1973, completing its near-identical eastern expansion by the…