If you’re anything like us, you may have noticed on your traipses through downtown lately that the 45-story Hanover Republic Square apartment tower at the corner of West Fifth and Lavaca Streets is looking pretty much done. Heck, it’s so new that the project is still under construction in its Google Street View taken earlier this year: While it’s sometimes hard…
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Here’s Our First Look at the Apartment Tower Headed for Fifth and Red River
The 37-floor downtown Austin apartment tower planned for the corner of East Fifth and Red River Streets by local real estate developer Stonelake Capital Partners heads to the City of Austin’s Design Commission for a review of its density bonus application on Monday next week — but since we try our best to stay on the ball around here for the…
West Anderson’s No Urban Paradise, but We’ve Gotta Start Somewhere
What’s interesting about the 27 Eleven project by California-based development outfit Paydar Properties isn’t so much the building, but rather its location — now rising at 2711 West Anderson Lane, this 320-unit apartment community will soon become the only multifamily residential building directly facing the stretch of West Anderson Lane between Mopac and Burnet Road,…
Let’s Check In With the West Avenue Residential Tower Plan
It’s been four years since our mildly controversial assertion that a new downtown residential tower could soon rise at 506 and 508 West Avenue, adjacent tracts currently occupied by restaurants Irene’s and Taquero Mucho — and although nothing’s broken ground yet at this 0.57-acre land assembly, it’s become increasingly clear that a tower plan is moving forward at this site. Notification letters…
A Downtown Micro-Apartment Project Stirs to Life on East Ninth Street
Roughly six years after the first appearance of the plan, a “micro-housing” apartment project by 70 Rainey developers Sackman Enterprises appears to be moving forward at 703 East Ninth Street, a 0.76-acre land assembly at the southwest corner of East Ninth Street and the I-35 Frontage Road stretching west to the edge of Waller Creek. With its permit approved by the…
Downtown Austin Residential Tower Planned for Defunct State Pension Site
A one-acre downtown property currently occupied by the former headquarters of a state pension fund is up for rezoning at tonight’s meeting of the Planning Commission, with city staff recommending the zoning change for the site, located at East 12th Street and the I-35 Frontage Road, to a central business district (CBD) designation — paving the way for…