Hold on to yer hats, because this downtown construction wave isn’t stopping. Three new office/commercial development recently submitted plans for small to mid-rise projects downtown. Unlike the wave of preceding projects, which are practically abolishing the parking lots that are converted to stages during SXSW, all three of these are redevelopments of existing buildings. Development…
North Lamar and South Lamar still in building boom
North Lamar development picks up at Triangle It’s not just downtown that is building, cranes are also popping up on North Lamar, building luxury residential rentals near North Loop. Two projects underway now just blocks from each other – the Triangle Tract 5 and Camden Lamar Heights – will add about 600 new residential units between the Triangle…
Downtown’s Medical District: Dell Medical School Announced (Master Plan Drawings)
The University of Texas in Austin announced its campus master plan today, which includes the unveiling of the Dell Medical School after months of speculation. Here are the basics followed by some exciting renderings. The Dell Medical School is expected to open in summer 2016. The main campus has another 6.6 million square feet of…
Cousins buys Congress Ave building, other project delayed
Cousins Properties is back in the game as property owner along N. Congress in downtown Austin, and at the same time – although no one has really noticed – they seem to be running behind schedule on a proposed office building downtown. Cousins famously developed the Frost Bank Tower, a marquee and classy addition to…
Block 51, 7 Rio set to begin construction
Two long awaited projects, 7 Rio and Block 51, are very near beginning construction in downtown Austin. At the start of April, contractors filed paperwork in order to close the sidewalk at W 7th and Rio Grande to excavate in order to begin construction of 7 Rio. There was much rejoicing when, in December, news spread that 7 Rio’s site plan had been approved. But when it…
Building Boom Near Mansion at Judges Hill
The Mansion at Judges Hill is going to starting to look like the Broken Spoke: flanked by development on both sides. Dirt has started turning on a 141-unit development, dubbed 21 Pearl, will rise up west of the Mansion at Judges Hill, across from the Park West Residences condo development. Meanwhile, another 118 units (plus about 3,500 square…