A 10-unit condo community in the Castle Hill district directly west of downtown Austin and adjacent to the Clarksville neighborhood has officially broken ground on the site of the city’s well-known and now-relocated outdoor graffiti gallery, formally known since 2011 as the HOPE Outdoor Gallery. The Colorfield condos will occupy the hillside at 1012 Baylor Street, a 1.2-acre property which famously…
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East Austin’s George Washington Carver Museum Is Ready To Grow
A long-awaited $58 million expansion plan that would nearly triple the square footage of East Austin’s historic George Washington Carver Museum is expected to receive the green light from Austin’s City Council later this month, with a unanimous vote of approval from the city’s Parks Board and other advisory commissions moving the project forward at the end of the expansion’s yearlong…
The Death and Life of Congress Avenue’s Neglected Historic Buildings
If you follow the (metaphorical) twists and turns of the so-called Main Street of Texas on the downtown stretch of Congress Avenue, you might also know the frustratingly extended story of three adjacent storefronts at 907, 909, and 911 Congress Avenue. The 907 and 909 buildings, both dating back to the 1880s, have historic designation — they’re known as the Grandberry…
This Summer, Alexan Waterloo Brings New Heights to Downtown’s Front Door
If you’ve been downtown in the last few months, you don’t really need us to tell you the Alexan Waterloo tower project at 700 East 11th Street is starting to look pretty close to finished, at least on the outside — but in case you’re still keeping your distance, we figured we’d go take a gander at this…
Homes Could Rise Nearly 100 Glorious Feet at a Riverside Business School
UPDATE: It turns out that despite the 120-foot height maximum of the zoning change achieved by this property, the ERC development bonus program doesn’t supersede the height limits of this area’s Waterfront Overlay district imposed by its proximity to Lady Bird Lake — meaning the maximum height of new development allowed here will be 96…
Mueller’s Latest Residential Project Shows Off Its Historic Control Tower
A mixed-use project by national real estate firm Ryan Companies bound for the heart of the Mueller community of Central Austin will add 350 residences and 2,500 square feet of ground-level retail space to the city’s favorite 711-acre former-airport-turned-neighborhood — and today’s announcement of the development also brings us one step closer to learning the future…