After tooting around since 1997, the much-loved miniature train at Zilker Park known as the Zilker Zephyr is no more, thanks to erosion from a number of heavy rainstorms at the park washing out its tracks in 2019 — but the Austin Parks Foundation will bring the experience of riding tiny rails to a new generation of Austinites in Summer 2021, as…
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East Austin’s Long-Neglected Govalle Park Finally Gets Some Attention
Though its facilities remain closed to the public in the hottest months of summer thanks to the ongoing pandemic, East Austin’s renovated Govalle Pool is ready to roll whenever we are — and with these much-needed and long-awaited upgrades completed earlier this year after breaking ground back in 2018, it’s time to extend the same courtesy to the surrounding facilities at…
A Three-Story Bar Is Business as Usual on Sixth Street, and That’s Too Bad
The longtime “Dirty Sixth” watering hole Maggie Mae’s, which has slowly grown in stature at 323 East Sixth Street since its opening in 1978, now sports seven different bars on two levels over thousands of square feet technically spanning three buildings — and now it’s growing upward. That’s at least the case presented earlier this…
Meet Block 16, a Downtown Austin Tower Plan Surprising Enough for 2020
In the blissful before-times of October 2019, as we unwittingly approached the conclusion of what we’re now calling the pre-pandemic era, we learned all about an office tower in the works downtown that would occupy the southern half of Block 16 in Austin’s original city plan — in other words, the bottom half of the block bound by San…
Let’s All Get Pumped at Butler Shores, With Public Workout Equipment on Deck
Despite the pandemic currently tearing apart our ability to conduct polite society, in regular times we’ve found a lot of downtown Austin dwellers consider the city itself their gym — the Hike-and-Bike Trail, exercise classes at various city facilities, and outdoor workout equipment at some of our parks. But there’s always room for more where that came from, if only because it reminds us…
The View From Austin’s Duncan Park Gets Better Every Year
If you’ve seen the way the wind’s blowing regarding the construction of very tall buildings and accepted that downtown Austin’s western boundary is no longer actually West Avenue, but rather North Lamar Boulevard, you might also begin to accept that Duncan Neighborhood Park is possibly the downtown region’s most overlooked green space. With Shoal Creek running along its western edge…