If you’re a real Towershead, you’re aware of our laser focus on the northwest region of downtown Austin as the next big hotspot for development around here. Upcoming residential tower projects like the Linden, Shoal Cycle, Annie B, 14th & Lavaca, and many more are set to bring a new population all across this region over the next few years, and we’re hoping that development…
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Downtown Austin’s Salvation Army Redevelopment Comes Into View
Perhaps by now you’ve heard that the Salvation Army is selling its acre-sized downtown Austin property near the corner of Eighth and Neches Streets, occupied for years by the charity’s homeless shelter until an abrupt closure last month. The site, now being marketed by commercial real estate giants CBRE, will probably need a fairly sensitive redevelopment to overcome the…
A Block-Sized Demolition’s Headed for Sixth & Blanco West of Downtown Austin
A five-story mixed-use project bringing retail, hotel, office, and residential space to more than two acres along West Sixth Street near downtown Austin is headed for the demolition phase. Sixth & Blanco, a new name for the plan first announced last summer as Clarksvillage, imagines a large-scale destination for the neighborhoods west of downtown courtesy of…
Here’s How the Waterloo Greenway’s Second Phase Transforms Waller Creek
This morning, the Waterloo Greenway Conservancy celebrates the official groundbreaking of The Confluence, the second phase of its project in partnership with the city to create a linear urban park along the path of Waller Creek through downtown Austin. Formerly known as the Waller Delta, the $91.5 million Confluence plan will transform approximately 13 acres along the creek from Fourth…
Say Goodbye to the Frank Erwin Center, a Building Austin Doesn’t Mind Losing
By most accounts, Frank Erwin was not a very nice guy. As longtime power broker of the state’s Democratic Party and chairman of the University of Texas System’s Board of Regents in the 1960s and ’70s, to the UT counterculture Erwin embodied every imaginable stereotype of The Man. His efforts against the era’s student protest…
Redevelopment Planned for Six-Acre Site on South Congress
An application for a planned unit development (PUD) at an approximately six-acre land assembly on South Congress Avenue could represent the next step towards building out the South Central Waterfront planning area directly south of the river near downtown Austin. Filed with the city earlier this week, the PUD concerns a collection of three adjacent tracts located around…