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…
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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…
After 15 Years of Mueller, Its Iconic Control Tower Has Never Looked Better
It was 2007 when I tried breaking into the defunct control tower at Austin’s former Robert Mueller Municipal Airport — you can call that “urban exploration” or “criminal trespassing” at your discretion, though at the age of 15 there’s admittedly not much distance between the two. My failed attempt arrived long after the site ceased…
In East Austin, Historic ‘Hepcat’ Home Has a New Lease on Life
A historic East Austin home is still the exact same home as before — it just happens to be sitting 17 blocks north of its original address. That’s the latest news out of local real estate firm Cielo Property Group, which announced in a press release today that it has donated the historic house formerly…