The Block 16 office tower, first announced in 2020 at the southern half of the block bound by San Jacinto Boulevard, Trinity, and Second Streets in downtown Austin, has a new developer sharing the wheel and an all-new design on deck. National real estate investors Carr Properties announced today in a press release that the firm is partnering with…
Downtown Austin’s Record-Breaking ‘Supertall’ Tower Gets the Green Light
A tower project set to become the tallest in the state has received an approval of its permit from the City of Austin, according to site plan updates from earlier this month and a LinkedIn post by WGI engineer Augustine Verrengia that set the city’s skyscraper enthusiast community on . . . Become a patron to get the full story and gain access to TOWERS’ archive….
At Fifth and Trinity, a Downtown Austin Tower Plan Hits an Invisible Wall
The hotel tower planned at the southwest corner of East Fifth and Trinity Streets in downtown Austin by prolific local hospitality developers White Lodging will contain 260 rooms in a 13-story building, according to recent city documents. The quarter-block site now preparing for development includes neighboring tracts at 307 and 311 East Fifth Street, occupied respectively by…
Preservation Austin’s 2022 Homes Tour Thinks Outside the House
Preservation Austin’s 2022 Homes Tour is trying something a bit different this spring — out of six stops along the event, only one is a house. With that in mind, the tour’s theme this year is “Out of the House,” and this fundraising event will provide its guests with a look inside an eclectic group of historic spaces the preservation nonprofit believes are representative…
Step Inside East Austin’s Transformative Springdale Green Office Project
The Springdale Green office development now underway at Springdale Road and Airport Boulevard in East Austin represents nearly an ideal future for a former industrial site with an almost 50-year backstory of poisoning its neighborhood. This 30-acre property operated from the 1940s to the 1990s as a “tank farm” for the above-ground storage of petroleum products, its facilities located…
Flash Back to Austin 1984 With These Vintage Views of Downtown’s Gold Bank
In 1984, designer and lifelong Austinite Travis Klein worked the second shift at the former Whitley Printing Company building at East Third and Brazos Streets in downtown, riding his bike from West Austin with the sunset behind him. Outside of a few familiar buildings, the skyline looked almost nothing . . . Become a patron to get…