Image: Kimley-Horn / Ziegler Cooper Architects
Hey, remember our sneak peak at downtown’s most mysterious upcoming tower projects? It looks like we don’t have to draw a big green box anymore for the building planned at 91-93 Red River Street, a rectangular .74-acre plot of land assembled from two adjacent addresses owned by entities associated with Austin-based commercial real estate firm Endeavor Real Estate Group.
A map of the 91-93 Red River Street site. Image: Google Maps
Its location, which is currently occupied by an unpaved parking lot and warehouse building, couldn’t be more adjacent to the area’s rapidly-growing entertainment district — it’s at the corner of Red River and Davis Streets just across from the Hotel Van Zandt, and right next door to Rainey Street hotspot Container Bar.
A current view of the 91 Red River Street site, used for parking at the moment. The warehouse structure seen on the left side of the image behind the parking lot will be demolished to make room for the planned tower. Photo by James Rambin.
New city utility filings give us a first look at the design of this 29-floor mixed-use building, identified simply as “91 Red River” in these documents but labeled “Red River Tower” on some of the architectural illustrations below:
West-facing (left) and north-facing (right) elevations of the 91 Red River tower. Images: Kimley-Horn / Ziegler Cooper Architects
South-facing (left) and east-facing (right) elevations of the 91 Red River tower. Images: Kimley-Horn / Ziegler Cooper Architects
No matter what name it gets in the end, the tower contains 328 residential units, three floors of offices totaling nearly 80,000 square feet of space, and two ground-floor retail spaces suitable for restaurants. The building also contains one level of subterranean parking, then seven additional floors of garage above the street-level lobby, with curb cuts allowing access from Davis and Driskill Streets.
Floors nine through 11 are occupied by office space, with a 17,000-square-foot amenity level on the 12th floor. Levels 13 to 29 contain the tower’s residential units — which have not yet been identified as condos or apartments, though apartments seem more likely — with roughly 18,000 square feet of space per floor. Along with 588 parking spaces, the building will provide space for 65 bikes.
Detailed illustrations of the top portion of the 91 Red River tower, seen from the northwest (left) and southeast (right). Images: Kimley-Horn / Ziegler Cooper Architects
The project’s design architect is listed as Houston firm Ziegler Cooper Architects — the same folks behind the design of the Austonian — with local architects dwg. handling the building’s landscaping. The planning selection below shows the improvements in store for the building’s streetscape, including widened sidewalks and new trees planted along Davis, Red River, and Driskill Streets:
A landscape plan showing ground-level features of the 91 Red River tower. Image: dwg.
The exact timeline of the building’s construction is unknown for the time being, but we’ve reached out to Endeavor to see if we can learn more. Man, isn’t that Rainey Street District skyline coming together?
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