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…
Rainey Street District Drawing More Development
Two new projects have filed site plans for new construction within the Rainey Street neighborhood district. The vacant lot across the street from the Mexican American Cultural Center at 70 Rainey filed paperwork to build a mixed-use sky scraper consisting of a restaurant, residential units, and parking. Down the street, the North Shore Lofts are moving forward…
Yet another hotel coming, now at 8th & Neches
Details are still sketchy, but it looks like someone, possibly Novare-Andrews-Urban is planning to develop a hotel at the intersection of Eighth and Neches Street, across from Stubbs. The project will redevelop a ratty-looking half-story parking garage and vacant lot. The owner, oddly enough, is the United States Postal Service, and USPS reps from Washington…