By all accounts, work is set to kick off any day now at the 31-floor mixed-use tower project known as (and located at) Symphony Square — within the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen demolition permits filed for the existing office buildings at the 1.7-acre site, along with permits for the raising of the project’s 430-foot tower…
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Demolition Underway at Hanover Brazos Street Tower Site in Downtown Austin
Since many of you are still working from home, we’d be remiss not to inform you of the latest development in Austin’s ongoing race to the first downtown tower groundbreaking of 2021 — demolition is underway even as we speak at the southeast corner of East Third and Brazos Streets, the future site of the 45-floor Hanover Brazos Street tower project by apartment…
Here’s How the Hike-and-Bike Trail Plans to Accommodate Austin’s Eternal Boom
Last year, the Trail Foundation nonprofit tasked with the stewardship of Austin’s beloved Hike-and-Bike Trail kicked off a community engagement process soliciting feedback from locals, part of a comprehensive safety and mobility study outlining how the city’s growth has impacted the trail’s environment and the experience of its hikers and bikers — and how we can confront these challenges with…
South Austin Gets Its Own Skyline at the Reimagined Brodie Oaks Retail Center
The $1 billion plan to redevelop South Austin’s Brodie Oaks shopping center into a 36.7-acre mixed-use district with more than 1,600 residential units, 1.1 million square feet of office space, restaurants, retail, a hotel, and 13.7 acres of open space reclaimed from the aging 1981 retail center’s massive parking lots is one of the most popular…
Top 10 Downtown Austin Condos By Total Sales Recorded in 2020
These are 2020’s top performing downtown Austin condo buildings according to sales data assembled by TOWERS.net. The table above ranks the relative performance of downtown’s residential buildings using sales data recorded last year in Austin’s MLS. The Independent and 360 Condos should naturally fill top spots simply due to the number of dwellings in each building. One…
Texas’ Tallest Tower Could Break Ground on Waller Creek in 2022
If you’ve ventured outside much lately in downtown Austin, you might have noticed some new decor installed on the fences around the corner of East Cesar Chavez and Red River Streets at the de facto entrance to the Rainey Street District — banners featuring the logos of none other than Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi…