After more than seven months of coronavirus-related restrictions and shutdowns, we’re interested in learning more about how our readers have altered their habits and lifestyles — and today, we’re curious about ridesharing services. Many Austinites we know living downtown and around the central city say they previously used services like Uber and Lyft to get around town nearly every day or at…
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Get a Virtual Glimpse of a Relocated Dougherty Arts Center at Butler Shores
The future of the Dougherty Arts Center, Austin’s favorite community theater and art gallery operating out of a converted Naval Reserve Training Center at 1110 Barton Springs Road, will first require a building that wasn’t built in 1947. Despite its abundant character, the structure that’s housed the center since its opening in 1978 is falling apart at a…
Meet the River Street Residences, Rainey’s Next Game-Changing Tower
Texas’ most acclaimed architecture studio could soon bring its tallest building yet to one of Austin’s most famous streets. Rising 48 floors and 571 feet at the northeast corner of Rainey and River Streets in the heart of the Rainey Street District, the project currently known as the River Street Residences designed by San Antonio-based architecture firm Lake…
Enjoyed by More Austinites Than Ever, the Hike-and-Bike Trail Plans for Growth
Austin’s much-loved Hike-and-Bike Trail has likely never been so important as an outdoor recreation facility of choice for downtown dwellers, even with a few pandemic-related challenges — and judging by its heavy use even during this endless crisis, not to mention the continual growth of the local housing market in spite of economic uncertainty elsewhere, it’s important to keep in…
Take a Funky Ride on the Cutting-Edge Public Transportation of 1970s Austin
As Austin prepares to vote on the historic $7.1 billion transit plan known as Project Connect, we thought it might be a good time to look back at the history of public transportation in our fair city — and the Austin History Center clearly feels the same, uploading this priceless video to its YouTube page earlier this month:…
West 12th Tower Plan Straddles a Historic Fence With Two Design Options
The potential demolition of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Headquarters located in the west end of downtown Austin at 416 West 12th Street for a 31-floor residential tower project by developers Stratus Properties remains an unpopular proposition for the City of Austin’s Historic Landmark Commission — and that’s despite two new design options presented to the HLC’s Architecture Review Committee…