We've waited for a rendering of developer Transwestern's Block 36 apartment project in downtown Austin for the better part of two years at this point, so long in fact that we have all become skeletons sitting patiently in our chairs. But the wait is over! Recent marketing materials for the project give us our first good look at the planned five-story building, which is ...
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Fun Facts on Downtown’s Upcoming Alexan Capitol Apartment Tower
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 ...
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 ...
