The 13-story hotel planned as part of Marriott’s Autograph Collection brand by local hospitality firm White Lodging could kick off demolition and construction at the southwest corner of East Fifth and Trinity Streets in downtown Austin before the end of the year, according to recent city permit documents, with demolition and site prep work currently scheduled to…
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Austin’s Record-Setting Waterline ‘Supertall’ Is Halfway Done Downtown
Waterline, the 74-story “supertall” tower project poised to break the state’s height record upon its expected completion in late 2026, is approximately halfway through its construction schedule, with the building now rising past the 35-floor mark and increasingly visible on the downtown Austin skyline. The mixed-use building by development partners Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi Residential is set…
Gaining 50 Floors and Saving a Dive Bar on South Congress Avenue
Although we were aware back in 2023 that New York-based megadeveloper the Related Companies was looking to redevelop a roughly six-acre collection of uninspiring properties at the corner of South Congress Avenue and West Riverside Drive, you never really know what that means until the renderings drop — and drop they did, in a late-breaking story last Friday…
Demolition Expected for Fifth and Lavaca Corner in Downtown Austin
The news this week that downtown ping pong bar Smash ATX had permanently closed at the southeast corner of West Fifth and Lavaca Streets didn’t come as a huge surprise to us considering the longstanding plans for a dual-branded Embassy Suites and Tempo by Hilton hotel with a combined 480 rooms in a 30-story tower at this site, but if…
This Downtown Apartment Building Is Becoming a Hotel, for Some Reason
I’ve always hated the name of the student-oriented apartment complex located at 1715 Guadalupe Street in downtown Austin: “The G.” You know, short for Guadalupe. Like an ice pick in the ear every time. Da Gee! But this goofy name’s reign of terror could soon come to an end, with new permits for the 79-unit…
A New Hotel Tower’s in the Works on Congress Avenue, But Don’t Tell Anyone
The internet’s crazy, right? You can find all sorts of stuff on here. More importantly, people put all sorts of stuff on here, and sometimes they don’t even seem to realize that other people can see the stuff. Pretend you didn’t read the preceding sentences and let’s dig into the mysterious plans for a 36-story…