Saltillo, East Austin’s most recent master-planned transit-oriented development by Endeavor Real Estate Group, transformed a 10-acre former rail yard into a mixed-use community of residential, office, and retail space a stone’s throw from the Plaza Saltillo MetroRail station — and the project is now rapidly approaching the one-year anniversary of its grand opening, despite the outbreak…
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East Sixth ‘Micro-Unit’ Project Gets Bigger, but Its Apartments Stay Small
An apartment project bringing 60 “micro-unit” apartments to the site of a shuttered longtime East Austin barbershop near the corner of East Sixth and Chicon Streets has a taller new look courtesy of local architecture firm Mark Odom Studio. Planned for several years atop a 0.26-acre lot at 1812 East Sixth Street by a team reportedly led…
Here’s How the Hike-and-Bike Trail Plans to Accommodate Austin’s Eternal Boom
Last year, the Trail Foundation nonprofit tasked with the stewardship of Austin’s beloved Hike-and-Bike Trail kicked off a community engagement process soliciting feedback from locals, part of a comprehensive safety and mobility study outlining how the city’s growth has impacted the trail’s environment and the experience of its hikers and bikers — and how we can confront these challenges with…
Marking the Medical History of East Austin at Holy Cross Hospital
A new historical marker for East Austin recently approved by the Undertold Markers program of the Texas Historical Commission will soon commemorate the final site of the former Holy Cross Hospital, the city’s first hospital for Black patients — and the first to allow Black physicians to practice alongside whites with equal privileges at the time of its opening in…
New Parkland at the Former Holly Street Power Plant Takes One Small Step
We’ve followed the civic saga of East Austin’s so-called Holly Shores region for years now, but the master plan for this enormous tract of parkland on the shores of Lady Bird Lake actually dates back all the way to 2009, when City Council first tasked the Parks and Recreation Department with forming a vision for the improvement of the…
At Rosewood Courts, a Milestone of Housing History Imagines an Upgrade
Though its historic significance doesn’t receive due attention outside the city, the Rosewood Courts public housing complex in East Austin is the first federal housing project in the nation built for African Americans. Funded by the United States Housing Authority of the New Deal thanks to the famously tireless politicking of then-Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson and completed in 1939, the…