An apartment project set to bring approximately 300 new residences to a drive-thru bank and adjacent parking lot of an office building on Burnet Road is preparing to take its first steps in the Allandale neighborhood of North Central Austin, with the site plan for the development at 7618 Burnet Road now approved by the city and…
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Austin’s Weirdest Tower Is Officially Under Construction at La Vista de Lopez
“Keep Austin Weird” isn’t a great slogan, since it puts pressure on people who live here to act like they’re extraordinarily quirky and different from people in other cities — and that’s usually much more annoying than weird. But every now and then, Austin sees an authentically very weird thing worth celebrating, and this is…
The Frio Apartments Preparing to Rise Against a Widening I-35
The planned redevelopment of the former Concordia University campus , a 22-acre site located just west of I-35 in the Hancock neighborhood of Central Austin, has taken 16 years to grow to its current crop of apartment, office, and retail buildings. That’s a bit longer than we expected when the city approved the Planned Unit Development (PUD) zoning for extra density at the…
Demolition Pending for River Park Mixed-Use Project on East Riverside
River Park, the massive 109-acre mixed-use development by developer Presidium Group and global private equity firm Partners Group, envisions the construction of roughly 10 million square feet of apartments, offices, hotel, and retail space over the next 10 to 20 years near the intersection of East Riverside Drive and Pleasant Valley Road. It’s a stone’s throw from the ever-expanding Oracle corporate headquarters…
The Hanger Project Brings Apartments to a Former North Loop Industrial Site
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…
Here’s a New View of Block 32, Building a Double Dose of Towers Downtown
The Block 32 project proposed by local developer Manifold Real Estate could bring a pair of residential towers to a half-block site one block away from the Austin Convention Center at the corner of East Third and San Jacinto Streets downtown — and let’s be real, after the last bit of news on the project dropped last summer, we weren’t sure we’d ever hear…