We've been following the Alexan Capitol apartment tower planned by developer Trammell Crow Residential Company for quite a while, but things appear to be moving right along for this 30-story mixed-use project bound for a relatively sleepy corner of downtown at 700 East 11th Street. New city filings for the building have provided us with a few fun new pieces of ...
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What Can You Do With a Block With a View? In Downtown Austin, Not Much
Hey, who would win in a wrestling match: Capitol View Corridors, or God? Trick question -- Capitol View Corridors are God. Okay, maybe I’m kidding just for the sake of an oblique reference to an American classic, but they both do a bang-up job hanging out all invisible up in the sky just waiting to cold-cock any enterprise of man that presumes to protrude beyond his ...
Ora Houston, City Council’s Least Predictable Voter, Would Like You to Stop Selling Austin’s Soul
That 10 of the 11 elected leaders in the Austin City Council are at least nominally associated with the Democratic Party does not mean there is any shortage of divisions on the dais. The Council's all-too-frequent marathon sessions, often stretching into the wee hours of the morning, reveal the many differences of opinion that exist on budgets, economic development, ...
Renderings Emerge for 30-Story Alexan Apartment Tower at 11th & Sabine
We've been following the ongoing saga of the apartment tower at 700 East 11th Street since long before we knew its identity as part of developer Trammell Crow Residential's national Alexan brand of communities. Now, thanks to new filings with the city's Design Commission, we've got a first look at renderings of the 30-story tower set to rise at the site of the Texas Trucking ...
What’s the Latest on the Emerging Downtown District East of the Capitol?
American literary theorist Kenneth Burke famously described the nature of mankind as "rotten with perfection," so obsessed with defining the "proper" names for everything around us that we lose any ability to see outside of the hierarchies we've created. I've never seen this observation demonstrated faster than when I use vague terminology to describe overlapping neighborhoods ...