Remember the “extraordinary” downtown Austin condo and hotel tower planned by our friendly local Canadian developers Intracorp Homes at 307 East Second Street? Thanks to the project’s appearance at next week’s meeting of the city’s Design Commission seeking its density bonus, we’ve now got our first glimpse at the 65-story, 756-foot tower imagined for this 0.53-acre site at the corner of East…
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Comedy Club Linked to Joe Rogan Planned for Austin’s Ritz Theater
The historic Ritz Theater at 320 East Sixth Street will soon host a comedy club linked to recently controversial podcast host and new Austin resident Joe Rogan, according to a number of local property filings and an application to the city’s Historic Landmark Commission. A permit seeking to install new signage at the front of the building is listed…
Psst, Hey Kid! You Wanna Buy Two Blocks in Downtown Austin?
It’s not exactly a fan-favorite building, but we’re still quite fond of the concrete-heavy 1970s institutional architecture of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas headquarters in downtown Austin. A product of the city’s 1960s urban renewal, the two-building complex spanning two full blocks at 1000 Red River Street opened its original western structure in 1973, completing its near-identical eastern expansion by the…
Demolition Planned for Avenue Lofts
After changing hands earlier this year with a negotiated buyout of its 38 condo units by local real estate firm Wilson Capital, the Avenue Lofts at 410 East Fifth Street seem to be moving quickly towards a larger tower development at this extremely desirable 0.8-acre half-block site in the heart of downtown — the address now appears on the agenda…
It Sure Looks Like the Republic Tower’s Breaking Ground This Spring
(You are standing at the southern edge of Republic Square in downtown Austin, gazing south across West Fourth Street at a massive parking lot. In your heart, you know this parking lot could be so much more. Someone starts playing a sad French accordion.) Ah, ze Republic. A tower like no other. She has many charms, non? Not ze…
East Austin’s Latest Mixed-Use Project Pioneers Affordable Commercial Space
A large mixed-use development set to transform a vacant 15-acre tract currently zoned mostly for industrial use in far East Austin hopes to introduce a new community benefit that could serve as a model for future projects — 10,000 square feet of affordable commercial space, offered at 60 percent of market rent to small arts-focused local businesses…