A permit filed with the city earlier this month indicates that local developer Pearlstone Partners is planning to build a 48-story downtown Austin condo tower at 62 East Avenue, located one block east of the rapidly-rising Rainey Street District — and the project would represent the firm’s third tower on East Avenue, joining the Natiivo and Vesper residential projects. The…
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Sixth and Guadalupe is Already the Tallest Building in Austin
It’s no secret that at 875 feet, the Sixth & Guadalupe office and residential tower currently under construction in downtown Austin will officially become the tallest building in the city when it’s done — at least until the next tallest thing comes along in a few years, of course. Scheduled for completion sometime in 2023, this 66-floor project at 400 West Sixth Street…
Celebrating 21 Years of Downtown Austin’s Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge
On June 16, 2001, Austin celebrated the grand opening of the James D. Pfluger Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge, spanning Lady Bird Lake — well, Town Lake in those days, as longtime locals will berate you in various comment sections — directly east of the Lamar Boulevard bridge. This new car-free thoroughfare offered non-drivers a safer…
Westgate Tower Seeks Historic Zoning
A downtown Austin condo tower featuring some of the city’s most famous midcentury architecture is currently seeking historic zoning. Westgate Tower, built as a 26-story apartment building at 1122 Colorado Street in 1966 and converted for condo use in the 1980s, features a striking modernist design by New Formalist architect Edward Durell Stone that proved controversial due to…
Let’s All Say ‘Good Riddance’ to Downtown Austin’s Republic Parking Lot
For longtime fans of the Republic office tower plan, announced all the way back in 2018 atop the full block directly south of Republic Square at 401 West Fourth Street in downtown Austin, seeing the start of substantial site prep on the project over the last few months is something like a dream come true. But even without taking into account that…
Take a Fresh Look at Downtown Austin’s Stunning Block 16 Office Tower Plan
Earlier this year we caught a fresh look at the latest design of the Block 16 office tower by local developers Manifold Real Estate and national investors Carr Properties, set to rise atop the southern half of the block bound by San Jacinto Boulevard, Trinity, and Second Streets in downtown Austin. This strikingly curved and terraced 738,000-square-foot office building is the…