Unless you happen to live in one of the lovely condo towers in the small northern pocket of downtown between 15th Street and MLK Jr. Boulevard, you might not be fully aware of what’s currently happening behind the fences of the Texas Capitol Complex Project, a multi-phase plan by the Texas Facilities Commission to transform the region of drab state office buildings and parking…
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A New Developer Takes the Wheel at 14th and Lavaca in Northwest Downtown
As we so brilliantly predicted a while back after seeing a number of projects here and connecting some pretty obvious dots, the northwestern quadrant of downtown is increasingly looking like the central city’s next frontier for growth — and there’s a new face on the block, with local developer Pearlstone Partners along with their frequent collaborators at New York-based ATCO Properties…
Is Downtown’s Vince Young Steakhouse Building Historic, or Just Really Old?
An application to demolish the 109-year-old former warehouse building currently occupied by the Vince Young Steakhouse in the Vegas-lite heart of downtown’s Convention Center District has run afoul of the city’s Historic Landmark Commission, and the situation presents a philosophical quandary — if a building survives for a century, how do you distinguish its long presence in history from actual historic merit? The…
The Austonian Finally Flips the Lights Back On in Downtown Austin
The Austonian, a fetching 56-story downtown Austin condo tower standing 683 feet at 200 Congress Avenue, enjoyed its status as the city’s tallest building from its completion in 2010 until the arrival of the Independent in 2019 — but for many of those years, the tower’s original crown lighting was switched off. Read More
East MLK Office Project Breaks Ground Near Ferdinand Street
Compared to the rapid growth along other more industrial corridors in East Austin, the stretch of East MLK Jr. Boulevard near I-35 has maintained a pretty quiet pace of development over the last few years, with large tracts like Oakwood Cemetery and the UT baseball stadium at UFCU Disch–Falk Field occupying large stretches of land closer to…
Take a Trip Through Time to the Austin of 1990 With These Home Videos
Mark Steger is a blogger out of Richardson, Texas, but over Labor Day weekend back in September 1990 he and his family visited Austin for a vacation — and Steger, an enthusiastic producer of home video, filmed several moments of the trip. These candid clips capturing Austin on a beautiful summer day more than 30 years ago…