The demolition of a long-empty East Austin warehouse dating back to the 1960s kicked off late last month at 1300 East Fifth Street, working to clear the site’s approximately 0.88-acre site — comprising a half-block facing East Fifth Street between Attayac and Navasota Streets — for the development of a five-story office building with ground-level retail space…
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Here’s Our First Look at Downtown Austin’s Horizon Bank Tower
It might not be downtown Austin’s first drive-thru bank, but the Horizon Bank building at 600 West Fifth Street is definitely our newest, originally opened at the northwest corner of West Fifth and Nueces Streets in 2004 as a Sovereign Bank — banks seriously love buying other banks, shuffling them around, changing the name on the sign five times in…
Sienna at the Thompson Brings Hotel-Adjacent Apartments to Fifth and Brazos
The 32-floor mixed-use tower development now nearing completion at the northeast corner of Fifth and Brazos Streets contains two Hyatt-owned hotel brands — the Thompson Hotel and the more casual, strategically-lowercased tommie — but atop the hotels and their associated retail closer to the ground at 501 Brazos Street, there’s a substantial residential component occupying the tower’s upper floors…
Mueller’s Latest Residential Project Shows Off Its Historic Control Tower
A mixed-use project by national real estate firm Ryan Companies bound for the heart of the Mueller community of Central Austin will add 350 residences and 2,500 square feet of ground-level retail space to the city’s favorite 711-acre former-airport-turned-neighborhood — and today’s announcement of the development also brings us one step closer to learning the future…
Preservation Work Planned for Residential Project at Threadgill’s Site
A multifamily residential development could be in the cards for the former restaurant and music venue Threadgill’s Old #1 at 6416 North Lamar Boulevard, which closed approximately a year ago — but the new owners hope to preserve part of the original building as a monument to this site’s storied past. That’s the latest from local developers Journeyman Group, which outlined its tentative plans…
The Travis Apartment Tower Project Finally Stirs to Life in the Rainey District
The still-uncertain impact of the last year’s pandemic on many of the tower projects previously announced for downtown Austin has us watching several sites around town with more anxiety than usual, and the Travis at 80 Red River Street was near the top of our list for towers we weren’t quite sure would survive. But in this…