A 44-floor downtown apartment tower at the southeast corner of East Third and Brazos Streets by Houston-based multifamily developer the Hanover Company has cleared its first hurdle on the long road from the drawing board to reality. At a meeting earlier this week, Austin's Historic Landmark Commission approved the certificate of appropriateness for the demolition of the ...
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Downtown Austin’s Block 87 Tower Returns With a Freshened-Up Design
A towering future for the full block at 701 Trinity Street bound by Neches, Trinity, Seventh and Eighth Streets could finally take shape, after years of speculation and modifications to a challenging design in a challenging location. What's known as Block 87 in the original downtown Austin plan, now home only to a parking lot, was originally purchased by the Episcopal Church ...
Windsor Park’s First Shopping Center Looks Ready to Grow. But How?
Windsor Village, the first shopping center opened in the midcentury Windsor Park neighborhood of East Austin in 1960, could someday host a transformative redevelopment of its property into a major residential and retail complex courtesy of prominent Houston-based commercial real estate firm Transwestern. That's at least the admittedly murky impression from ...
Here’s How Austin Should Grow in the 2020s, According to Austin
Earlier this month, at the dawn of a sparkling new decade, we asked our readers for their thoughts on the next 10 years of growth in downtown Austin and beyond -- and which positive and negative aspects of that growth they noticed during the 2010s. Naturally, traffic woes topped the list of growth-related frustrations experienced in the last 10 years -- so overwhelmingly in ...
Timbercreek Redevelopment Could Bring 550 Apartments to Bouldin
The redevelopment of a 1970s-era South Austin apartment community could bring up to 550 new apartment units to the Bouldin Creek neighborhood, only a stone's throw from the city's growing South Central Waterfront district. The proposal, outlined in a briefing by Austin's Planning and Zoning Department at a meeting of the city's Environmental Commission earlier this week, will ...
