Here’s a little surprise for your weekend: All of a sudden, the narrow strip of downtown between the Capitol building and I-35 is the most interesting part of the city, and it’s not even close. Well, from a development perspective, that is. We’re just as surprised as you, but the writing’s on the wall —…
Austin Redditors Dig Up Rainey Street’s Past Life
[image-comparator left=”http://austin.towers.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/96rainey.jpg” right=”http://austin.towers.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/bar962017.png” method=”overlay” width=”100%” value=”50″ link_images=”false” overlayed_slider=”false” classes=”hover”][/image-comparator] A view of the house at 96 Rainey Street in 1980 and 2017, which is now a sports bar called Bar 96. Photos courtesy of the Texas Historical Commission and the Austin Convention & Visitor’s Bureau. Austin’s changed all over, but you might not find a…
New Block 87 Plans Describe Market, Hotel Space at 7th and Trinity Mixed-Use Project
New city filings for the mixed-use project at Block 87, one of Austin’s final undeveloped blocks downtown, shed a bit more light on the future of the Episcopal Church-owned parking lot at Seventh and Trinity Streets. The development by Cielo Property Group, which is currently known as “Episcopal Archives” in city filings, will in fact host the church’s substantial historical archives —…
An Inside Look at Fifth & West
Last night, I had the opportunity to take a brief tour of the Fifth & West luxury residential tower project construction site. The tower will top out at 39 stories, but this tour only took us as high as seven — enough to get a good look at the view from the building’s pool deck, which is probably the most…
The Guthrie Brings Multifamily Development to an East Austin Lumberyard
Gonzales Street is quiet, for now. It’s a sleepy path of single-family homes in far East Austin just north of the East Seventh Street bridge’s span over Tillery Street, and the elevation of Seventh Street in this area insulates nearby homes from most major traffic. The abundant trees on the un-and-underdeveloped lots at the intersection of…
Travis Heights to Host Austin’s Next Affordable Housing Development
This April, Austin-based multifamily developer Saigebrook Development LLC had an application approved that changed zoning on a vacant wooded lot in Travis Heights to Multifamily Residence — giving the company the green light for an affordable housing project. The zoning change was necessary to proceed with a tax credit-financed project. It got through the Planning Commission “on consent,” meaning without…