A groundbreaking event took place this morning for Natiivo, the "Airbnb-powered" home sharing brand announced earlier this summer as the identity of the 33-story tower planned for many years at 48 East Avenue in the Rainey Street District. https://twitter.com/downtown_austin/status/1141159401304285184 The Natiivo business model is pretty groundbreaking in its own right, ...
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Demolition at the 6 X Guadalupe Tower Site Could Arrive Next Month
To build the new tallest tower in Austin, you've got to break a few eggs -- or, in this case, demolish a completely unremarkable hotel. In other words, the Extended Stay America now occupying the famously "cursed" former home of the late Alamo Hotel at the northwest corner of West Sixth and Guadalupe Streets is not long for this world, with recent city documents pointing to its ...
Video: Austin’s Hooters Hoots No More
We've been waiting a little longer than we thought, but the deed is finally done: Stream Realty Partners has kicked off demolition at the former Hooters restaurant located at 401 South First Street, making way for the upcoming construction of its 15-story office and retail project RiverSouth. At a "ceremonial demolition" and groundbreaking held at the site earlier today, an ...
3 New Towers Headed for the Domain
A rendering of the residential tower and one of the office towers planned by Stonelake at the Domain. Image: Stonelake Capital Partners / HPI / StreetLights Residential / Beck / Boka Powell / DWG. Texas real estate firm Stonelake Capital Partners submitted an application to the city last summer concerning sidewalks and landscaping for three high-rise buildings -- two office ...
Central Austin Development Roundup: Lots of Holes in the Ground
It turned out to be quite a news week for downtown Austin development, so let's shotgun some stories real quick and feel extremely informed. Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell strangers on the street -- the towers are coming, and some of them are pretty neat. We put the neatest one first: Block 185 Arrives in Style Probably the biggest tower news this week broke ...
