Symphony Square, a mixed-use office and multifamily residential tower planned in the northeast corner of downtown Austin by global development firm Greystar, has bounced around the early stages of realization for several months at this point. The project’s situated atop a roughly 1.7-acre land assembly including the Austin Symphony Orchestra offices at 1117 Red River Street, and the large drive-through Velocity…
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Downtown Austin’s Extended Stay America is Finally Coming Down
Two years after the announcement of 6 X Guadalupe, a 66-story mixed-use tower planned at the northwest corner of Sixth and Guadalupe Streets in downtown Austin, the ’90s-era hotel currently occupying the site is finally, mercifully, waving goodbye. And hey, it’s about time! This demolition arrived a little later than we thought, but on this foggy Tuesday afternoon there’s a…
Okay, Let’s Talk About These New Owl Statues in Downtown Austin
Austin Proper, the downtown Austin condo and hotel tower still under construction at 600 West Second Street near Shoal Creek and the rest of the redeveloped Green Water Treatment Plant site, already has its first two permanent residents — and they’re owls. Two 10-foot owls at the corner of West Second and Nueces Streets, to be exact: It’s…
East Austin’s Latest Office Building Is a High-Minded Architectural Throwback
East Austin has seen its fair share of office development over the last couple of years, but most of that growth arrives in the form of larger buildings, rising four or five stories and occupying the better part of their blocks — or even full blocks, in some cases. That’s what makes the two-story office project preparing to rise on a diminutive .14-acre site at 1408 East Sixth…
In the Shadow of the Capitol, an Oddball Tower’s Planned at 13th and Lavaca
Dallas-based tax services company Ryan LLC and local lobbying firm McWillams appear to be developing a tower of sorts at the corner of 13th and Lavaca Streets in downtown Austin, a location situated about as close to the State Capitol Complex as you can get before actually being there. This is at least the case presented…
In 1999, the Tamale House Fixed Austin’s Hangovers on Airport Boulevard
You’ll still find a Tamale House elsewhere in town, but the location most cherished by Austinites on Airport Boulevard was technically the restaurant’s third iteration — though in our experience most people eating there didn’t have a firm understanding of why the sign had a #3 at the end. Opened in 1977 and closed after the death…