As the holiday season approaches and Amazon shipping windows begin to slide shut, the ambient state of panic already in the air thanks to the pandemic has become electrified. Maybe you bought all your gifts months ago — maybe your 2020 has been different than ours and you’re using this time to get organized. Maybe….
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Here’s a New Design for Downtown Austin’s 9092 Rainey Street Tower Plan
First announced back in the blissfully pre-pandemic 2019, the tower planned to replace two bars at 90 and 92 Rainey Street by a development team including Urbanspace Real Estate founder Kevin Burns and local design firms Nelsen Partners and dwg. has undergone a few twists and turns throughout the generalized turmoil of 2020 — members of the city’s…
Going Up With Austin’s Elevator-Riding Enthusiasts on YouTube
You ever take a few wrong clicks and find yourself on a completely unrecognizable side of YouTube? That’s the basic story of how we came to enjoy the videos of the elevator enthusiast community — a group of like-minded fans that, unlike many of us, appreciate elevators a lot more than the buildings they’re inside. None of…
From Riverside to Barton Springs, South Lamar’s Going on a Road Diet
One of Austin’s worst intersections, as determined by our readers no less, is located at Barton Springs Road and South Lamar Boulevard — it’s a seven-lane nightmare for cars, bikes, and pedestrians alike, and with multiple major developments on the way in this region, those issues are only going to get worse. That’s why we’re pumped to see the…
Here’s the Public Workout Equipment We’re Getting at Butler Shores
A few months back, we alerted the more athletically-minded among our readers to the future of breaking a sweat at Butler Shores, with a few design options on the table for public exercise equipment to be installed adjacent to the Hike-and-Bike Trail by our friends at the Trail Foundation. The existing workout equipment at Butler Shores. Now that…
Whole Foods Is Growing Up a Second Office Building in Downtown Austin
It’s not often that a building breaks ground in downtown Austin without us knowing the details — we’re not bragging, that’s literally our job and spending all our time downtown makes it hard to miss. But as construction fences started rising at the 15-story Shoal Creek Walk office tower site at 835 West Sixth Street sitting just east…