You'll still find a Tamale House elsewhere in town, but the location most cherished by Austinites on Airport Boulevard was technically the restaurant's third iteration -- though in our experience most people eating there didn't have a firm understanding of why the sign had a #3 at the end. Opened in 1977 and closed after the death of owner Robert Vasquez in 2014, the Tamale ...
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Kingsbury Commons Project Celebrates Groundbreaking at Pease Park
A groundbreaking ceremony this morning at Austin's Pease Park marks the start of work on Kingsbury Commons, a roughly 10-acre area at the south entrance of the park, which contains 84 total acres of green space following North Lamar Boulevard between West 15th and West 31st Streets. The Kingsbury improvements -- which include multiple playground areas including a big ...
With Groundbreaking Later This Month, 44 East Avenue is 25 Percent Sold
44 East Avenue, the tallest downtown Austin condo tower headed for the Rainey Street District at the moment, is less than a month away from celebrating its groundbreaking -- and more than 25 percent of the project's reported 322 residential units are already under contract, according to local real estate firm Urbanspace. Intracorp, the developers behind the tower ...
Take a Closer Look at the 701 Rio Offices Headed for West Downtown
Nearly a year ago, we dug into plans for 701 Rio, a five-story office project bound for a 0.6-acre collection of lots at the northeast corner of West Seventh and Rio Grande Streets in the generally lower-density west end of downtown Austin. Though the development was originally expected to kick off back in April 2019 with the demolition of the existing ...
In 1989, This Absurdly Corny Easy-Listening Album Had ‘Pride in Austin’
The world didn't discover Austin yesterday, even if it might feel that way sometimes. Our local tourism industry, booming roughly as long as the city itself, saw 7.5 million visitors in 1989, though three decades later we're looking at a yearly count closer to 30 million. With a lineup of new towers downtown, the ongoing success of Aqua Fest, and a small music event known as ...
