Is “Facebook Employee No. 6” planning a hotel in East Austin?
Ezra Callahan, aka. Facebook’s sixth hire, decided to invest in building a chic, eco-friendly, boutique hotel brand -- Arrive Hotels.
There is no official announcement, but it appears that Ezra is hot for Austin and is planning another Arrive Hotel at Sixth and Chicon. Specifically a 5-story hotel, totaling 80 units with restaurants on the bottom facing the street, totaling about 12,000 square feet. The project site is currently occupied by a Goodwill office building, which would be demolished. Burton Baldridge is . . .