Last year, TOWERS profiled the ongoing growth of Chestnut Plaza and the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) at MLK Jr. Boulevard and Alexander Avenue, located in East Austin at the MLK Jr. Station of Capital Metro's Red Line. Nearly 10 years after the rail station first opened, the area around it still has plenty of empty space waiting for growth, but some of those gaps should ...
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Take a Closer Look at the Travis, the Rainey District’s New Tallest Tower
We've already gotten one peek at what's planned for the Travis, a mixed-use project building two towers at 80 Red River Street in downtown's Rainey Street District, which could break ground as early as later this year -- but remember, the project's developers, Dallas-based Genesis Real Estate Group, say they're building this thing in phases. We saw the Phase I tower back ...
Digging Into the Blockbuster Plan for the Austin American-Statesman Site
Now that we've had a few days to digest the Austin American-Statesman's breaking news story about the redevelopment of its own headquarters on the south shores of Lady Bird Lake, we thought it might be nice to think a little further about the potential wrapped up in this roughly 19-acre site at 305 South Congress Avenue. Even though the plan, as shown in the renderings seen ...
99 Trinity Site Faces Foreclosure
It's been six years since the announcement of a tower project at 99 Trinity Street in downtown Austin, but landowner WC 1st and Trinity LP has another problem on its hands besides the residential development's seemingly complete lack of progress -- an imminent threat of foreclosure by its lender. Warehouses have occupied the southeast corner of Trinity and East Cesar Chavez ...
Yes Indeed, Downtown Austin’s Block 71 Tower Has a New Name
Austin, it appears the office tower currently rising at 200 West Sixth Street has found a new name. Previously known only as Block 71 after its block number from Austin's original downtown plan, the website for developer Trammell Crow Company, some other recent press releases, and the news coverage resulting from those press releases now all include the name Indeed Tower for ...
