World Class Capital Group, an Austin-based real estate investment firm, boasts perhaps one of the most enviable property portfolios in the downtown area. Needless to say, they own a lot. Though their acquisitions have occasionally drawn controversy, the company's most visible impact on the downtown area at the moment is via the banners they hang on the side of the vacant ...
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Here’s Where Austinites Say You’ll Find the ‘Heart’ of Downtown
At the end of 2018, we asked Austinites to tell us where they considered to be the "heart" of downtown Austin -- a simple-sounding question that ended up generating a pretty wide range of responses. Still, even though we got some interesting takes, the survey ended up confirming our suspicions about what part of downtown Austinites would probably choose the most -- by a ...
Where’s the ‘Heart’ of Downtown Austin?
Here's a question for you that sounds almost offensively simple until you start thinking about it: Where's downtown Austin's "heart?" You'll see that phrase -- "the heart of downtown Austin" -- in glossy hotel brochures and Airbnb listings and even on this very site, but where do you think of when you see it? We asked some people around the office and got different ...
The Only Good Visitor’s Guide to Austin’s Convention District
Though our civic apparatus and the greater convention center-industrial complex would have you believe the ever-expanding Austin Convention Center is a critical economic booster for the city, the jury's still out for plenty of Austinites on where the sprawling center, which currently occupies six city blocks, falls on the continuum between "necessary" and ...
Notice Anything Different About Austin’s Downtown Hilton Lately?
You may have noticed a new look lately at the downtown Austin condo and hotel tower at Fourth and Neches Streets, home to the Hilton Austin and 5 Fifty Five residences. A new coat of paint is probably the quickest way to transform an existing building -- just ask the LINE Hotel, which recently brightened up the exterior of the former Radisson at Congress Avenue and ...