Like almost every week, it was a good week for towers in downtown Austin. This time around, we got a look at an all-new development in the Rainey Street District, plus progress updates for a few other projects -- not to mention some extremely fresh new renderings. As they say in the old country, "bada bing, bada boom:" 90 Rainey Street Local developer and Urbanspace CEO ...
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The Villas on Town Lake are Coming Down in the Rainey Street District
After sitting vacant for more than a year, downtown Austin condo community the Villas on Town Lake, located at 80 Red River Street, is being torn down even as we speak. Seriously, we just took this -- and we're sorry for the WorldStar-style vertical video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CZGcXvqQWg Built in 1982 before the area's current residential ...
An Unexpected Tower Arrives in Downtown Austin’s Northwest Gap
The region of downtown Austin northwest of the Capitol, just east of the historic Judge's Hill neighborhood and labeled by Google Maps as the "North Side," is a bit of an odd duck. As we've covered in more detail before, this area's got different zoning rules than most of downtown, meaning its buildings generally don't go as high as you'll find elsewhere -- in fact, this ...
Take a Peek at Downtown Austin’s Future Skyline
Every time we come across a new downtown Austin condo, apartment, or office tower project in the planning stages, we like to cobble together a little 3D massing of it in Google Earth to help everyone visualize what it'll look like in context with the rest of the city -- for example, check out our rendering of the potential future of the Rainey Street District's skyline! We ...
In South Austin, Bouldin’s Building Up
It's not the friendliest of streets, but South First remains Bouldin's major conduit for growth. Photo by James Rambin. Bouldin Creek, though not Austin's (or even South Austin's) most development-friendly neighborhood, has seen a large push of projects recently -- many by builder PSW Real Estate along the South First Street corridor. Though the neighborhood's own defined ...