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,…
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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: Built in 1982 before the area’s current residential boom, the Villas site straddles the western edge of the Rainey…
VIDEO: Implosion Brings Down Ashbel Smith Hall in Downtown Austin
Ashbel Smith Hall, a 10-story office tower formerly occupied by the University of Texas System at downtown Austin’s Block 71, is officially no more. Its unfortunate pedigree as perhaps one of the ugliest buildings in the city certainly didn’t tarnish the spectacle of the tower’s implosion at 8:00 a.m. this morning, the first demolition of its type Austin’s seen in more…
Implosion at Block 71 in Downtown Austin Scheduled for Sunday, March 25
An email sent this morning to the mailing list of the Downtown Austin Alliance appears to confirm the suspected date of the Ashbel Smith Hall demolition at Block 71, the first building implosion planned in the downtown area in more than 11 years — and quite possibly the largest of its type the city has ever seen. Since TOWERS.net…
Implosion Planned at Block 71, Downtown’s First in More Than a Decade
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer building, but it appears downtown Austin’s first implosion in more than 11 years will take place at Block 71’s Ashbel Smith Hall tower sometime this spring. We’ve been hunting for answers since December of last year, when various permits were filed with the city for demolition at the site, a 1.75-acre downtown block…