An apartment development planned for a sprawling former industrial tract could bring approximately more than 400 new residences to the edge of the North Loop neighborhood in Central Austin, according to site plan documents currently in review with the city. The project by local real estate development firm Seco Ventures would raise two adjacent five-story apartment structures…
78751
Avoiding an Expanding Highway’s Gravitational Pull at the Frio Apartments
The redevelopment of the 22-acre former campus of Concordia University at the eastern edge of the Hancock neighborhood is one of Austin’s lesser examples of the planned unit development (PUD) process — “the deal so bad, a guy went to jail!” Although it’s taken a bit longer than we expected for this large collection of tracts just west of I-35 to build out since the approval of the…
Triangle State Office Complex Prepares for Phase 2, and a Lot More Parking
The 1980s-era John H. Winters state office complex housing the Texas Health and Human Services Commission at the southeast corner of North Lamar Boulevard and West 51st Street in the Central Austin district popularly known as the Triangle received a pretty nice upgrade from the Texas Facilities Commission in 2021, with a new 406,000-square-foot office building by architects Jacobs and…
Celebrating the High-Flying History of Highland’s Hidden Hangar
There’s plenty to love about the Highland neighborhood of Central Austin, but for our money there’s no part of this region more interesting than the small district of mostly industrial properties located just south of the Red Line tracks directly east of North Lamar Boulevard. We think there’s a lot of potential in these few blocks for…
Hancock’s Miller-Long House Heads for the National Register of Historic Places
Built in 1929, the Miller-Long House at 813 Park Boulevard is an extremely visible architectural treasure of the Hancock Neighborhood in Central Austin, designed in the charmingly whimsical 20th-century Tudor Revival style that feels torn from an old children’s book — and in keeping with the darker side of fairy tales, the home is slowly crumbling like…
Does This Austin Duplex Look Illegal?
The duplex seen above, located on Avenue C in the cherished Hyde Park neighborhood of Central Austin, is one of many older residences providing this district’s eclectic historical charm. Constructed in 1931 during the neighborhood’s largest period of growth, its exterior appearance reflects the modest, but stylish architecture of this area’s many bungalows originally built for working-class…