This year, the neighborhood fashioned out of the former Robert Mueller airport celebrates the 18th anniversary of its master development agreement between the City of Austin and developers Catellus, which began the 700-acre transformation of the site into a Central Austin destination with numerous housing types, commercial space, and a celebrated New Urbanist sensibility that makes the planned district…
Hundreds of Homes Rising Near Rails on an Oddly-Shaped East Austin Site
A six-story East Austin apartment project by local developer Lincoln Ventures is set to rise atop a triangular piece of land at 2700 East Fifth Street, bringing 625 residential units, a co-working space spanning two floors, and a 2,400-square-foot retail cafe and “urban grocery store” to the site, according to the developer — a bright future for…
New Downtown Austin Hotel Tower Planned at Fifth and Trinity Corner Site
The approval of demolition applications for two adjacent buildings in downtown Austin late last month by the city’s Historic Landmark Commission will clear the southwest corner of East Fifth and Trinity Streets for a new hotel tower project, according to development permits filed earlier this week. Occupying a quarter-block, the adjacent structures at 307 and 311 East…
Former State Pension Office Could Host Tower in Downtown’s ‘Innovation District’
The one-acre former headquarters of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, a state pension program providing retirement and disability benefits to municipal employees in hundreds of Texas cities, could soon be up for grabs. The program relocated its operations to a new office building at the recently-opened Grove development . . . Become a patron to get the…
Two East Austin Landmarks Headed for the National Register of Historic Places
Federal historic recognition is pending for two properties located roughly a mile apart in East Austin after the approval of nominations by the Texas Historical Commission’s State Board of Review earlier this month. The respective sites, both notable landmarks in the history of the region’s Mexican American community, are Parque Zaragoza at 2608 Gonzales Street in the…
The Waterloo Greenway’s Next Phase Begins Later This Year on Waller Creek
Now that Austin’s had a few months to get familiar with the reopened Waterloo Park, you might wonder what’s next for the Waterloo Greenway conservancy, since the nonprofit’s plans for transforming the rest of Waller Creek into a 35-acre linear park running 1.5 miles from 15th Street to Lady Bird Lake on the eastern edge of downtown…