French Place is a bit of an enigma. It’s not quite a neighborhood, but also not just one street — the best way to describe it is a small enclave within the larger Cherrywood neighborhood of East Austin, with porous boundaries depending on who you ask. Best we can tell, French Place makes up the region of…
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Here’s a New View of the Plaza Headed for Mueller’s Historic Control Tower Site
Did you know that Austin’s celebrated Mueller neighborhood used to be an airport? Yeah, sure, laugh it up — you might think that’s common knowledge if you’ve lived around here for a while, but what if you got here yesterday? The only two remaining elements of the 700-acre neighborhood that really hit you over the head with…
There’s Still Room To Grow in Austin’s Mueller Neighborhood, Believe It or Not
This year, the neighborhood fashioned out of the former Robert Mueller airport celebrates the 18th anniversary of its master development agreement between the City of Austin and developers Catellus, which began the 700-acre transformation of the site into a Central Austin destination with numerous housing types, commercial space, and a celebrated New Urbanist sensibility that makes the planned district…
Mueller’s Latest Residential Project Shows Off Its Historic Control Tower
A mixed-use project by national real estate firm Ryan Companies bound for the heart of the Mueller community of Central Austin will add 350 residences and 2,500 square feet of ground-level retail space to the city’s favorite 711-acre former-airport-turned-neighborhood — and today’s announcement of the development also brings us one step closer to learning the future…
Seeking Love and Liberty at Austin’s 1970s Clothing-Optional Apartments
It’s said that some early Christian baptisms were performed in the nude, signifying the restoration of the subject’s soul to its state of innocence at birth. To be naked without shame is to live free from original sin, at least in the biblical sense — and in the Austin of the 1970s, a legendary decade of hippie…
What’s the Worst Intersection in Austin?
For such a simple question, we’ve heard endless possible answers, so we’d like to ask our readers. Click here to fill out our survey, or use the embedded form below: (function(t,e,s,n){var o,a,c;t.SMCX=t.SMCX||[],e.getElementById(n)||(o=e.getElementsByTagName(s),a=o[o.length-1],c=e.createElement(s),c.type=”text/javascript”,c.async=!0,c.id=n,c.src=[“https:”===location.protocol?”https://”:”http://”,”widget.surveymonkey.com/collect/website/js/tRaiETqnLgj758hTBazgdwPZmV_2FAEs9sr8CUqTZNE6Upgi3u6zbvkQAnc1P5CWRv.js”].join(“”),a.parentNode.insertBefore(c,a))})(window,document,”script”,”smcx-sdk”); We’re mostly interested in troublesome intersections in the central city, like downtown and its surrounding neighborhoods, but we’re sure there’s plenty out there either way. A lot of factors are…