The lighting of the 155-foot tree at Zilker Park fashioned from one of the city’s iconic moonlight towers is the most visible sign of the holiday season’s arrival in Austin. The tree itself dates back to 1967, with the Zilker celebration now known as the Trail of Lights dating back even further to a “Yule Fest” event first…
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A Second Hanover Residential Tower May Bring 41 Floors to Third and Brazos
The 44-story Hanover Republic Square apartment tower is seemingly days away from breaking ground at the corner of West Fifth and Lavaca Streets in downtown Austin, but its developer and namesake the Hanover Company already has another project up its sleeve — a 41-story residential tower planned for a 0.4-acre tract at 205 Brazos Street, also known as…
When the Klan Took Republic Square
If you were a native-born white male Anglo-Saxon Protestant Austinite interested in joining the hooded ranks of the Ku Klux Klan, the summer of 1922 was a fabulous time to be alive — after all, you had company everywhere you looked. During the hate group’s so-called second coming in the early 1920s, our burgeoning local chapter, Capital…
Here’s 90-92 Rainey, a 53-Story Tower for Downtown’s Fastest-Growing District
Earlier this year saw the announcement of a mixed-use tower in the rapidly-rising Rainey Street District by local developer and Urbanspace CEO Kevin Burns, but since that news broke back in March we haven’t heard much else about the project — described at the time as a hotel, residential, and retail building with 50-odd stories headed for the…
Hey Austin, What Happened to the Seaholm Waterfront Redevelopment?
Q: Remember the plan to remodel the Seaholm intake facility on Lady Bird Lake? It’s been forever since the city’s said anything about it, so what’s going on, my guy? A: Our readers have an uncanny knack for asking the right questions in just the right way, so let’s catch up on the future of…
Say ‘Howdy’ to Holly Project, Phase One of an Ambitious East Austin Park Plan
The East Austin park improvement initiative formerly known as Holly Point but now sporting the broader (but slightly less memorable) label of Holly Project represents the first step towards upgrading the large tract of shoreline city parkland on the north banks of Lady Bird Lake commonly referred to as Holly Shores. This area, its size exceeding a whopping 90 acres…