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…
East Side Roundup
KRDB’s “SOL 2.0” condos coming soon A innovative retail and condo mixed used development focused on sustainability is in the works on across the street from the State Cemetery, east of I-35, at the intersection of MLK Jr. Blvd and Leona St. This will be KRDB’s next iteration of its first Solutions Oriented Living — SOL — sustainable…
Waller Park Place site prep – last phase of demolition work
Yesterday we observed what appears to be the last component of demolition to prepare the site of Waller Park Place . The three tower plan would become the largest private development ever downtown Austin. 92 Red River, shown mid-demolition in the video below, is the last of the structures from Cesar Chavez to Davis Street have been razed to…
Sneak Peek of Plaza Saltillo Redevelopment
More and more news from the East Side . CapMetro will be voting on March 21st, its next board meeting, on the master development agreement with the Endeavor Real Estate Group and Columbus Realty team to redevelop the 10-acre Plaza Saltillo site into a mixed-use, mixed-mobility development. The proposal includes affordable and market-rate apartments, as well as office, retail and…
Fairmont Austin May Get A Sister Project
Last week, Manchester Texas Financial Group outlined a proposal to the City of Austin Historic Landmark Commission to relocate three old, but not landmarked, buildings. The houses would be relocated directly across 3rd street, landing on a wedge of land that already shared by the Trask house and Castlemen Bull house (which was also moved to its current location)….
Palm School
I’ve been thinking about the fate of the Palm School, and cannot shake the feeling that preservation-at-all-costs is as dangerous to Austin’s future as development-at-all-costs. Late last year, downtown’s representative on the Commissioners Court, Commissioner Gerald Daugherty, tapped the brakes on an effort to preserve Palm School, a 123-year-old building at E. Cesar Chavez Street and…