Last week, we noted the second possible demolition of an Extended Stay America hotel in the central city to make room for taller growth, but that doesn’t mean the mid-tier extended stay hotel is obsolete in downtown Austin — ha ha, au contraire! City permit filings from this month indicate plans for the development of a 166-room TownePlace Suites…
Hotel Rezoning Could Bring New Height to Austin’s South Central Waterfront
Committed readers of this blog might recall the 2019 demolition of the widely-disliked Extended Stay America hotel at 600 Guadalupe Street in downtown Austin was the first step toward the development of the
Whoops, We Accidentally Named This Tower on Rainey Street
Maybe you’ve heard that the 48-story downtown Austin apartment tower now under construction at 80 Rainey Street is going by the name Paseo. What you didn’t hear, since we weren’t sure how to talk about it without sounding insanely full of ourselves, is that we came up with . . . Become a patron to get the full story and…
Meet Austin’s Top 3 Shopping Centers Begging for the Brodie Oaks Treatment
Last month, we introduced the thought experiment of the Brodie Oaksifyer, a sort of sci-fi laser cannon capable of instantly converting one of Austin’s many sprawled-out shopping centers into a Brodie Oaks-style redevelopment — we’re talking denser and more walkable urban design, new housing, and green space reclaiming underused parking lots, among other . . . Become a patron to…
Montage Condo Project Breaks Ground on South Lamar
The Montage condo project by local real estate firm Pearlstone Partners celebrated its official groundbreaking earlier today, bringing approximately 182 new homes to a 1.86-acre property at 2323 South Lamar Boulevard, formerly the site of a used car dealership near Bluebonnet Lane. The building is currently scheduled for completion by the spring of 2025, according to the developers. <span…
New Apartments Seek to Heal the Sprawl on Shoal Creek Boulevard
Along with the incredible explosion of density cooking in the region directly around the Domain, there’s a few notable projects headed to other parts of