Along with a certain iconic midcentury control tower, the Browning Hangar is one of the only remaining structures in the Mueller neighborhood of Central Austin recalling this 700-acre community’s past as the city’s former municipal airport. Dating back to 1943 and named for local aviator Robert Browning, the structure’s use of glued pine trusses for its arched frame rather than steel…
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Searching for Gaylord Sackler
The Gaylord Sackler Memorial Skate Park opened in the Mueller neighborhood of Central Austin last summer, an approximately 15,000-square-foot haven for skaters also featuring the first concrete pump track for BMX bikes ever built in Texas. Part of the master-planned neighborhood’s large Southeast Greenway park space envisioned by Mueller’s lead developers at California-based real estate firm Catellus and local landscape architecture…
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…
Meet Solomon, Building Mueller-Style Living Across the Street From Mueller
A seemingly biblically-named building by major local developers Endeavor Real Estate Group is now under construction at the gateway to the Mueller neighborhood in Central Austin. Solomon, a five-story mixed-use apartment and retail project containing approximately 369 new residences, is located atop a largely undeveloped 3.8-acre tract at 1414 East 51st Street formerly used as parking space…
Windsor Park Apartment Project Trades Steaks for Affordable Homes
A five-story multifamily housing development at the edge of the Windsor Park neighborhood in East Austin is set to bring 308 affordable homes to a prominent empty lot near the southeast corner of I-35 and Highway 290 at Clayton Lane, a 2.5-acre site previously home to a Texas Land & Cattle steakhouse — which closed back in…
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…