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Ding, Dong! West Riverside’s Hooters is (Almost) Dead, With Offices on the Way

James Rambin January 25, 2019 Comment

Y’all, I’m pleased to announce that the Hooters at 425 West Riverside Drive, Austin’s only remaining outpost of the chain, is not long for this world — permits recently filed with the city indicate a starting date for demolition on February 4, 2019, with the construction of the 15-story RiverSouth office and retail project to follow soon after. If you’ve forgotten what that looks like, here’s something to refresh your memory:

A rendering of the RiverSouth office project headed to this site. Click for a larger view. Image: Stream Realty Partners
A gauzy boudoir-style rendering of the RiverSouth offices at dusk. Click for a larger view. Image: Stream Realty Partners

It’s not any particular beef we have with Hooters that makes this such exciting news. It’s just that the joint sits atop a roughly 1.35-acre piece of land with room for much, much more than wings and uncomfortably transactional social interactions — although, since the restaurant’s being replaced with an office building, they’re only really getting rid of the first one. I’ll be here all week!

A map of the RiverSouth site currently occupied by a Hooters and its big-ass parking lot. Click for a larger view. Image: Google Maps

More importantly, the project represents the first big step of the city’s South Central Waterfront Initiative, which we certainly hope will transform this part of the world through various development bonuses and other fun stuff — it’s a little planning jargon-heavy, but I explain it more and why it’s neat in the previous RiverSouth article. Right now, we’re just busy dancing on Hooters’ grave.

Anyway, demolition at this ill-fated wing shack and the rest of the site’s massive parking lot should last from February 4 – 15, according to the permit. The RiverSouth construction should kick off not long after, with an additional permit filed just today for one or more tower cranes to be assembled at the address in the near future.

Another rendering of the RiverSouth project, looking at its unique faceted facade straight on. Click for a larger view. Image: Stream Realty Partners

In my experience, the demolition and tower crane permits don’t always get filed with the city so close together, which seems to imply that RiverSouth developer Stream Realty Partners is moving quickly on getting this thing built — maybe that means they’ve already found some solid tenants for those offices? The view of downtown from this thing is pretty good, after all.

RiverSouth seen against the skyline looking north into downtown. Click for a larger view. Image: Stream Realty Partners

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James is an Austin native and fifth-generation Texan, but tries not to brag about it. Email him anything at james@towers.net.

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