Calling civic scenesters and philanthropic rabble rousers. The national urban planning and design advocacy firm Street Plans Collaborative is setting its sights on Austin to promote “tactical urbanism”. For the uninitiated, think of tactical urbanism as guerrilla gardening, pop-up crosswalks, and other lo-fi, citizen-driven projects aimed at drawing attention to streetscapes that could benefit from long-term improvements. The…
Roundup: More downtown Austin development yet to come in 2017
A new wave of construction projects are rolling towards groundbreaking in the heart of downtown Austin, including a new development on W. Sixth so far kept secret, and a project targeting Chinese investors. Town Lake Lofts (neé North Shore Lofts) Back in 2013, I wrote about a small project in the southeast tip of the…
Oracle moving fast to start construction in Austin
It has been almost 5 months since tech giant Oracle announced a major investment in the East Riverside Corridor . The company is putting the pedal to the metal, already submitting detailed site plans to the City, the first step towards breaking on 560,000-square-foot campus. The reason it is able to move so fast as that the Oracle’s future home was conceived as a turnkey…
Hotel Magdalena : Liz Lambert’s Next Project
All of Liz Lambert’s chic hotels on South Congress Avenue are named after saints. San Jose. Saint Cecilia. Lambert’s upcoming creation — Hotel Magdalena — is named after Mary Magdalene, and is looking to be the grandest of them all. This new five-story boutique hotel and residences will sit just off South Congress, clocking in…
Take A Virtual Ride on I-35 “Cut & Cap” Plan
I’ve been a proponent of the “cut & cap” plan for burying I-35, and reconnecting Austin , ever since Sinclair Black began sharing the concept a couple (few?) years back. To see how well the “cut & cap” design works, we need look no further than Dallas’ Klyde Warren Park , which sits atop the Woodall Rodgers Freeway. Below are six…
Austin’s First Residential Tower Planned Without Parking… and a grab bag of news from Congress Avenue
For years Congress Avenue north of about 7th Street was a dead zone after business hours, a statement punctuated by the Chipotle occupying prime real estate at the corner – shuttered promptly at 8 p.m. and closed on weekends. That is all set to change with the Statesman reporting yesterday on a 30-story apartment tower — void of the normally ubiquitous parking…
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