Development along Austin's East 12th Street has been a long time coming, with anticipation fueled for months -- years, really -- by hush-hush land acquisitions and speculation, not to mention quite a few projects in various stages of approval, though not much actually moving on the ground. It's safe to say that's changed recently, with one major commercial project nearing completion and a couple of others turning dirt.
(The downtown stretch of East 12th Street west of I-35, near the forthcoming Waterloo . . .
