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…
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…