The hits just keep on coming, y'all. We've got an all-star roundup of local development items revved up for you this week, with almost every update related to a tower on the way in downtown Austin. Giddyup: Fifth & Brazos Hotel The 32-story mixed-use hotel and residential tower by Magellan and Ryan Companies at Fifth & Brazos Streets is really happening. We ...
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At RiverSouth, Austin’s South Central Waterfront Plan Takes One Small Step
By all accounts, Austin's only Hooters restaurant is pretty bad -- and that's even by Hooters standards, which means something's somehow falling through the cracks between the Sysco truck and the microwave. If nothing else, the joint is a fun reminder of the good ol' days of Austin when a restaurant about 2,000 feet from downtown got to have a parking lot roughly six ...
Welcome to the New East Avenue
At 51 stories, the recently-announced 44 East Avenue project could soon become one of the tallest Austin condo towers built so far. Although a tower project at this address, located on the south end of the rapidly-developing Rainey Street District, has been anticipated for quite a while, the sheer size of the planned building is more than we ever could have expected. 51 floors ...
Demolition Starts at 91 Red River This Month, Clearing Site for 30-Story Tower
The folks at Endeavor Real Estate Group aren't wasting any time on the 30-story mixed-use tower planned at 91 Red River Street. The building, called Red River Tower in some documents, will bring 328 apartments, three floors of office space, and ground-level retail to the growing Rainey Street District -- and demolition clearing the .74-acre site for the tower's ...
In Loving Memory: Downtown Austin’s ‘Rather Tawdry’ Alamo Hotel
Earlier this week, a demolition permit was issued by the city for the Extended Stay America building at 600 Guadalupe Street in downtown Austin. Despite its central location, this fenced-off, unremarkable low-rise structure was nearly identical to what you might find on the side of a highway anywhere else in America, and unless you were a business traveler looking for a room ...