As tireless advocates for the joys of urban life, we believe everyone in Austin has the right to live downtown. That's why we support dense development and the growth of diverse housing types beyond single-family homes -- it makes that life far more accessible to a wider population. That's also why we're so excited to see Preservation Austin's upcoming 2020 Homes Tour embrace ...
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12-Story Hilton Hotel Tower Could Rise From Historic 1880s Austin Building
This evening, Austin's Historic Landmark Commission will hear the details of a proposed 12-story tower addition to the historic Bartholomew-Robinson Building at the southeast corner of West 15th and Lavaca Streets downtown. The project would seemingly integrate elements of the existing single-story building, which dates back to the 1880s, into the new structure's ground floor, ...
A Tower’s in the Works at Fourth and Brazos in Downtown Austin
A new tower development could soon rise atop a half-block at the northeast corner of East Fourth and Brazos Streets in downtown Austin -- a rising pocket of the central city blessed with quite a few prominent neighbors also planning towers of their own. Recent city filings for the .81-acre assembly of adjacent tracts at 204, 206, and 216 East Fourth Street, purchased in ...
At Third and Brazos, an Apartment Tower Plan Respects Its Elders
A 44-floor downtown apartment tower at the southeast corner of East Third and Brazos Streets by Houston-based multifamily developer the Hanover Company has cleared its first hurdle on the long road from the drawing board to reality. At a meeting earlier this week, Austin's Historic Landmark Commission approved the certificate of appropriateness for the demolition of the ...
Windsor Park’s First Shopping Center Looks Ready to Grow. But How?
Windsor Village, the first shopping center opened in the midcentury Windsor Park neighborhood of East Austin in 1960, could someday host a transformative redevelopment of its property into a major residential and retail complex courtesy of prominent Houston-based commercial real estate firm Transwestern. That's at least the admittedly murky impression from ...
