We’ve got downtown Austin condos, apartments, offices, and hotels rising all around us in shiny new tower form these days, to the point where it’s kinda hard to keep the projects around the city straight even if you’re paying attention. With that in mind, here are some lightning-round updates on 10 notable projects rising around…
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Dig This Pretty Sweet Model of Austin’s Upcoming 44 East Condo Tower
Work on 44 East Avenue, one of the tallest downtown Austin condo towers planned at the moment, should kick off any time now in the Rainey Street District. Its developer, our exceedingly polite Canadian friends at Intracorp, recently opened a leasing office for the 49-floor community at 401 West Third Street, and inside you’ll find among other wonders an incredibly detailed physical…
European ‘Co-Living’ Brand Quarters Appears Headed for Downtown Austin
Quarters, a communal housing brand by German startup Medici Living Group described as the “WeWork of co-living,” appears headed for downtown Austin. That’s at least the extremely convincing case built by a series of recent city documents and corporate filings, which heavily imply the .25-acre tract at 1108 Nueces Street will soon become the next planned American outpost for Quarters —…
VIDEO: An Inside Look at Downtown Austin’s Indeed Tower Project
Though we stick to the written word for the most part, sometimes nothing beats a video for getting your point across — so here’s one of the best we’ve seen in a while. It’s from construction firm PERI Formwork Systems, working with DPR Construction, describing some of the specific challenges of building the Block 71 / Indeed Tower office project…
The Forgotten History of Normandie Arms, Austin’s First Apartment Tower
What was the first high-rise apartment building in Austin? This is obviously a trick question, but the people who keep track of this stuff will generally tell you it’s the 15-story Cambridge Tower, which opened in 1965. Using the modern (and not entirely agreed-upon) definition of a high-rise, they’re absolutely correct — especially because we’re not counting the single penthouse atop…
Micro-Apartments Head for West 12th Street’s Unofficial ‘Skateboard District’
You and I will likely never understand exactly how it feels to bomb down Castle Hill on a skateboard, which is nearly as sad for our collective joie de vivre as it is deeply comforting to our insurance providers. All you really need to know is that despite its character ranging from million-dollar homes to…