We'd be lying if we said the redevelopment of Waterloo Park wasn't an agonizingly slow process -- this downtown Austin park has remained closed to the public since 2011, which means we're creeping up on nearly a decade without its 11 acres of green space around the banks of Waller Creek between East 12th and East 15th Streets. Still, the Waterloo Greenway nonprofit ...
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East Austin’s Centro Offices Will Transform Nearly Two Full Blocks
Centro, a mixed-use development by local firm Riverside Resources set to bring five floors of office and retail space to the so-called "Saltillo District" of East Austin, is still working its way through the city's permitting process -- meaning the project technically exists mostly on people's computers at this point. But looking at renderings doesn't really give you a ...
With Groundbreaking Later This Month, 44 East Avenue is 25 Percent Sold
44 East Avenue, the tallest downtown Austin condo tower headed for the Rainey Street District at the moment, is less than a month away from celebrating its groundbreaking -- and more than 25 percent of the project's reported 322 residential units are already under contract, according to local real estate firm Urbanspace. Intracorp, the developers behind the tower ...
Downtown Austin’s Marriott Hotel Tower Celebrates Its ‘Topping Out’
It sounds a little strange to call a 31-story tower project "under the radar," but for all its prominence, the new Marriott hotel tower rising at the northwest corner of Cesar Chavez and Trinity Streets just across from the Austin Convention Center hasn't received all that much attention in the news lately. Still, its 613 guest rooms and direct proximity to the ...
South Austin’s MESA Condos Will Soon Rise Again After Recent Fire
After a fire at its South Austin construction site last month brought the MESA condos nearly back to square one, the project's dusting itself off and getting back on track. A message issued earlier this week to buyers at the 45-unit, three-story condo development at 4004 Banister Lane by IMPACT Developers states that despite the considerable damage, the project will ...
