If you're a longtime Towershead, you'll know we spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the development of the Rainey Street District. It's downtown Austin's fastest-growing region in terms of announced or planned projects, but the neighborhood is also geographically isolated due to the boundaries created by Lady Bird Lake and I-35, meaning there are only a few access ...
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The Seaholm Waterfront’s First Phase Is Ready to Roll on Lady Bird Lake
It's not like we haven't had plenty of other important things to think about lately, but over the last few months our minds have wandered once again to the status of the Seaholm Waterfront, the long-awaited adaptive reuse project by the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, the Trail Foundation, the Austin Parks Foundation, and local architecture firm Cotera + Reed to ...
Digging Into East Austin’s John Treviño Jr. Metro Park Master Plan
After about a year of development, the City of Austin's Parks and Recreation Department and Seattle landscape architecture firm GGN finally have a master plan for the improvement of the unused 330-acre East Austin parkland named for the city's first elected Mexican-American City Council member John Treviño Jr. -- and this is great news, because the tract at 9501 FM 969 is ...
Here’s Hanover Brazos Street, Ready for Its Close-Up in Downtown Austin
You'll notice in our prior coverage of Hanover Brazos Street, the 45-floor, 308-unit apartment tower planned by Houston developers the Hanover Company for the southeast corner of East Third and Brazos Streets, there are almost no images including the top of the building. That's because its architects at Chicago firm SCB were being pretty coy about releasing full views -- ...
At Roy’s Taxi, the Segregated East Austin Could Count on a Ride
In the early days of the Great Depression, construction jobs all but disappeared, and that was bad news for Mexican-American Austinite Roy Velasquez, who had risen to the role of foreman on a crew laying sewer pipe in the late 1920s before he was 20 years old. With no local work left, he traveled to Kingsland to organize a crew and build cabins for workers at a granite quarry ...
