After substantial public engagement and a final engineering report issued back in July, the City of Austin's Transportation Department has nailed down its plans for a pedestrian bridge crossing Lady Bird Lake near Longhorn Dam in East Austin -- and as we'd hoped, the "Wishbone" bridge option presented alongside several others last year is the prize pig, ready to enter the ...
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East Austin’s Long-Neglected Govalle Park Finally Gets Some Attention
Though its facilities remain closed to the public in the hottest months of summer thanks to the ongoing pandemic, East Austin's renovated Govalle Pool is ready to roll whenever we are -- and with these much-needed and long-awaited upgrades completed earlier this year after breaking ground back in 2018, it's time to extend the same courtesy to the surrounding facilities at ...
Digging Up the Humble Beginnings of Austin-Built Brands Gone National
It would take us years to tally up Austin's near-countless cultural gifts to Texas, not to mention the rest of the country, but a good place to start might be the national businesses that originally found their roots somewhere around here. A lot of the original locations for these companies weren't exactly glamorous, but that's the scrappy startup saga every aspiring ...
Catching Up With the Hatchery, Transforming East Austin’s RBJ Center
A little more than two years after its official groundbreaking, the expansive redevelopment of the Rebekah Baines Johnson Center is making visible progress in East Austin. Soon, we'll be calling it the Hatchery -- and along with the construction of new market-rate residential, retail, and office space at the 17.8-acre site just southeast of downtown, its existing 250 units of ...
East Austin Development Roundup: Time Hasn’t Stopped, It Just Feels That Way
As we slide into month five of the pandemic, it's easy to feel like time no longer exists -- especially if you're working from home and keeping your adequate social distance. But time has not stopped in the least for the men and women working on construction sites all over Austin, with new buildings rising all over town despite current events. Let's take a look at what's going ...
