If we’re being precise, Block 71 is the City of Austin’s assigned number for a 1.75-acre downtown block owned by the University of Texas and bordered by West Seventh, Colorado, West Sixth and Lavaca Streets. But more importantly, it’s also the presumed name of developer Trammell Crow Company’s planned mixed-use complex, set to transform the site with a 36-story office tower, retail, restaurants, an…
South Shore Highline Development is East Riverside’s New Normal
I just can’t quit East Riverside. Between Oracle’s massive new office campus in Lakeshore and the general trend of new projects springing up all the way out to Montopolis and beyond, there’s a reason I keep crawling back. Don’t even get me started on the potential of the Project Catalyst development — point is, there’s suddenly a lot going on in a part…
The Ballad of 1155 Barton Springs, a Project Fighting 40 Years of Bad Luck
Last month, news emerged once again about multifamily residential development on the way at 1155 Barton Springs Road. If that address sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because this site is home to what might be the city’s most spectacularly long-lived example of development vaporware, a project that’s lived and died and been revived so many times over the…
Rainey Street’s 9-Story Mixed-Use Project Moves Forward
Remember Rainey Street’s most mysterious mixed-use project? Looks like we weren’t too far off predicting that we’d see progress on this development in the near future. New documents filed with the city give a closer look at what to expect from the nine-story office and retail development that will soon occupy the food truck park at 78 – 84 Rainey Street, courtesy of…
Cielo Property Group’s 4 East Project Splits the Planning Commission
Tyler Buckler, principal at Cielo Property Group, left the City of Austin’s Planning Commission this week without an answer to his request to build a 90-foot office tower next to the Plaza Saltillo Station in East Austin. Buckler’s company acquired six single family residential lots over the past year to cobble together a half block tract at the northeast…
The Independent Wins 2017 Design Award From American Architecture Prize
Love it or hate it, you’ve got to admit that the Independent, perhaps better known as Austin’s “Jenga Tower,” is boldly designed. This 58-story building currently under construction in what’s now known as downtown’s Market District will be the tallest tower in the city — at least for a few years until the 850-foot tower planned at 600 Guadalupe gets off…