Back in April, we learned that the formerly record-setting plan for a supertall residential building in downtown Austin known as Wilson Tower had been scaled back by its developers at local firm Wilson Capital, with the firm’s president Taylor Wilson citing changing market conditions for the tower’s roughly 50 percent reduction in height from 1,035 feet to approximately 515 feet, or from…
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Here’s the Plan for Transforming South Austin’s Twin Oaks Shopping Center
The mixed-use redevelopment planned for the Twin Oaks Shopping Center in South Austin by the Dallas-based real estate developer Trammell Crow Company and its subsidiary High Street Residential on behalf of the 10-acre shopping center’s owners at the H-E-B Grocery Company has the potential to anchor the northeast corner of South Congress Avenue and Oltorf Street with nearly 1,000 homes, offices, a…
Austin Finally Faces Down the Housing Crisis With Single-Family Zoning Reform
Austin’s City Council is currently on summer break, but when its members return next week for the meeting scheduled on July 20, they’re taking on a fairly significant land use resolution with the potential to shape the future of housing across the city. You’d think Agenda Item 126 might have dropped with a little more fanfare, considering its…
900 Apartments Planned For McKalla Warehouse Site Near Q2 Stadium
An apartment project planned directly south of Q2 Stadium and the upcoming McKalla Place light rail station has updated its proposal to more than three times its original size, according to documents filed with the City of Austin. The plan by local firm Cypress Real Estate Advisors was first permitted as a 274-unit apartment building replacing a warehouse structure at…
Meet Sabine Tower, Bringing Some Life to Downtown Austin’s Innovation District
Sabine Tower, a 39-story building planned at a former state pension fund headquarters near the corner of East 12th and Sabine Streets in downtown Austin, is one of several projects contributing to the city’s freshly-defined Innovation District — which seems mostly like a marketing effort to attract biotech industry tenants to buildings near the UT Dell Medical School and Central Health’s redevelopment of the former Brackenridge Hospital campus. Not…
Let’s Catch Up With Downtown Austin’s Waterline Supertall Tower Project
Aren’t you glad the Waterline supertall broke ground in the Rainey Street District around this time last year? Otherwise, the 74-story tower planned by developers Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi Residential might have found itself in purgatory forever — or perhaps even seen its record-breaking height cut in half. But instead, this 1,022-foot monument capping off a generation of Austin’s growth will likely remain the high…