Listen, we're not trying to cause any trouble here. But we also have eyes, so it's hard not to notice the subtext of today's Austin Business Journal first look at the design of the downtown office tower now known as The Republic, headed to 308 Guadalupe Street -- namely, that the building looks extremely similar to Block 71, the office tower planned ...
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Here’s What We Learned From Our Fabulous Austin Survey
Last month, TOWERS.net conducted the first of what will hopefully be a series of surveys, querying our readers on topics both silly and extremely silly in an attempt to better understand how Austinites feel about the city's buildings, neighborhoods, grackles, and more. We promised to select one lucky respondent to receive a $30 gift card to downtown cafe Forthright, and ...
Take Our Fabulous Austin Survey and You Could Win a Fabulous Prize
Here at TOWERS.net, thinking about Austin is a full-time job. That's why we've decided to take an opportunity to make you think about Austin for a change -- what you like, what you don't, that sort of thing. We'll be running surveys every once in a while on various Austin topics in an ask-the-audience-style attempt to check the pulse of our readership. In return, we're ...
The Downtown Austin Alliance’s Vision Survey Needs Your Hottest Takes
Our friends over at the Downtown Austin Alliance are conducting a survey of Austinites as part of what they're calling a "Downtown Vision & Action Plan." The organization uses community input from surveys along these lines to research improvements for downtown issues like parking shortages, so they'll probably appreciate your hot takes more than random folks on the ...