If keeping up with the news over the last week has you more than a little burnt out, we're here with a welcome distraction -- the 60-story apartment and office tower planned by BBVA USA and developer Ryan Companies at 321 West Sixth Street in downtown Austin is extremely narrow. How narrow, you ask? Very. But you wouldn't necessarily be able to tell that from the ...
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Waterloo Central Office Project Heads for a Shuttered Smoke Shop Downtown
A 39,000-square-foot office and retail project known as Waterloo Central is planned at the former site of the now-closed Gas Pipe (The Gas Pipe? The Gas Pipe!) smoke shop at the southeast corner of East Fifth and Sabine Streets in downtown Austin. Here's a view of the site from roughly the same perspective as the rendering above. Imagined by local developers Elevate Growth ...
North Central Development Roundup: Not Quite Central, Not Quite North
Okay, so maybe it's a stretch to call neighborhoods like Crestview and Allandale part of "Central Austin," but we also feel weird saying anything south of Highway 183 is in "North Austin." What's a blog to do? You probably already figured this out, but we're running with "North Central." Here's some stuff they're building around there -- apartments, mostly, but an office ...
Preservation Austin’s 2020 Homes Tour Gives Downtown Living Its Due
As tireless advocates for the joys of urban life, we believe everyone in Austin has the right to live downtown. That's why we support dense development and the growth of diverse housing types beyond single-family homes -- it makes that life far more accessible to a wider population. That's also why we're so excited to see Preservation Austin's upcoming 2020 Homes Tour embrace ...
Here’s a Shiny New View of the Travis Apartment Tower Bound for Rainey
As we're prone to doing on this website, we've spent a lot of time thinking about the new heights the Travis might soon bring to the west edge of the Rainey Street District in downtown Austin. The project hopes to eventually raise two towers atop the 2.3-acre former condo site at 80 Red River Street across two phases of development -- the first phase tower rising 50 floors to ...
