A 39,000-square-foot office and retail project known as Waterloo Central is planned at the former site of the now-closed Gas Pipe (The Gas Pipe? The Gas Pipe!) smoke shop at the southeast corner of East Fifth and Sabine Streets in downtown Austin. Here’s a view of the site from roughly the same perspective as the rendering above. Imagined by local developers…
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North Central Development Roundup: Not Quite Central, Not Quite North
Okay, so maybe it’s a stretch to call neighborhoods like Crestview and Allandale part of “Central Austin,” but we also feel weird saying anything south of Highway 183 is in “North Austin.” What’s a blog to do? You probably already figured this out, but we’re running with “North Central.” Here’s some stuff they’re building around…
Here’s a Shiny New View of the Travis Apartment Tower Bound for Rainey
As we’re prone to doing on this website, we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the new heights the Travis might soon bring to the west edge of the Rainey Street District in downtown Austin. The project hopes to eventually raise two towers atop the 2.3-acre former condo site at 80 Red River Street across two phases of development…
12-Story Hilton Hotel Tower Could Rise From Historic 1880s Austin Building
This evening, Austin’s Historic Landmark Commission will hear the details of a proposed 12-story tower addition to the historic Bartholomew-Robinson Building at the southeast corner of West 15th and Lavaca Streets downtown. The project would seemingly integrate elements of the existing single-story building, which dates back to the 1880s, into the new structure’s ground floor, while raising…
A Tower’s in the Works at Fourth and Brazos in Downtown Austin
A new tower development could soon rise atop a half-block at the northeast corner of East Fourth and Brazos Streets in downtown Austin — a rising pocket of the central city blessed with quite a few prominent neighbors also planning towers of their own. Recent city filings for the .81-acre assembly of adjacent tracts at 204, 206, and 216 East…
41-Story Condo Tower Filling Another Gap in the Rainey District’s Skyline
A 41-story downtown Austin condo project could raise a total of 283 residences in a pretty tight corner of the ever-growing Rainey Street neighborhood starting next year. According to local real estate firm Pearlstone Partners, which is co-developing the building with New York-based investment group ATCO, groundbreaking for the district’s latest tower is tentatively scheduled in the first quarter…