At its meeting earlier this week, the City of Austin’s Planning Commission voted to postpone a rezoning item on its agenda for further discussion next month, allowing the applicant further time to discuss the case with the neighborhood in question — Old West Austin, a part of town not known for its intensity of growth compared to almost…
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At 80 Rainey, an Apartment Tower Searches for a Sense of Place
A 49-story tower project planned in the heart of the Rainey Street District will bring 644 apartments along with several new bars and restaurants to this fast-growing downtown neighborhood — and with a number of public-facing features including the preservation of two bungalows currently occupying its site, the development appears more willing than most to accommodate the anxieties of Austinites concerned…
44 East Avenue Tops Out 49 Floors of Condos in the Rainey Street District
Here’s a late-breaking news update you tower-minded folks will be happy to hear — the downtown Austin condo tower at 44 East Avenue by developers Intracorp has officially celebrated its topping out at the southern edge of the Rainey Street District. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Connor Matthews – Realtor (@connormatthewsrealtor) There’s a…
A Teaser for Texas’ Tallest Tower Arrives in This Downtown Austin Parking Lot
Have you noticed there’s a very small building now sitting in the parking lot at the corner of Cesar Chavez and Red River Streets? It’s got sort of a modernist hot dog stand thing going on, but what’s the real purpose of this structure? The panes of glass offer a clue — though it’s subtle,…
Admiring the Curves at Gensler’s Stunning Whole Foods Office Project
It’s not often that a low-rise building stops us in our tracks, but here goes nothing — the five-story office project designed by Gensler Austin as an expansion for the corporate headquarters of Whole Foods, now sitting in a late stage of construction at the corner of West Fifth and Bowie Streets, is shaping up to be one…
The Loren Condos Are Nearly Sold Out at South Lamar and Riverside
The long-expected development of the “Taco PUD” at the southeast corner of South Lamar Boulevard and West Riverside Drive has taken shape over the last two years since the 2019 start of work on the eight-story hotel and condo project known as the Loren at Lady Bird Lake, and though the building at 211 South Lamar…