If keeping up with the news over the last week has you more than a little burnt out, we're here with a welcome distraction -- the 60-story apartment and office tower planned by BBVA USA and developer Ryan Companies at 321 West Sixth Street in downtown Austin is extremely narrow. How narrow, you ask? Very. But you wouldn't necessarily be able to tell that from the ...
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Waterloo Central Office Project Heads for a Shuttered Smoke Shop Downtown
A 39,000-square-foot office and retail project known as Waterloo Central is planned at the former site of the now-closed Gas Pipe (The Gas Pipe? The Gas Pipe!) smoke shop at the southeast corner of East Fifth and Sabine Streets in downtown Austin. Here's a view of the site from roughly the same perspective as the rendering above. Imagined by local developers Elevate Growth ...
North Central Development Roundup: Not Quite Central, Not Quite North
Okay, so maybe it's a stretch to call neighborhoods like Crestview and Allandale part of "Central Austin," but we also feel weird saying anything south of Highway 183 is in "North Austin." What's a blog to do? You probably already figured this out, but we're running with "North Central." Here's some stuff they're building around there -- apartments, mostly, but an office ...
A Tower’s in the Works at Fourth and Brazos in Downtown Austin
A new tower development could soon rise atop a half-block at the northeast corner of East Fourth and Brazos Streets in downtown Austin -- a rising pocket of the central city blessed with quite a few prominent neighbors also planning towers of their own. Recent city filings for the .81-acre assembly of adjacent tracts at 204, 206, and 216 East Fourth Street, purchased in ...
Windsor Park’s First Shopping Center Looks Ready to Grow. But How?
Windsor Village, the first shopping center opened in the midcentury Windsor Park neighborhood of East Austin in 1960, could someday host a transformative redevelopment of its property into a major residential and retail complex courtesy of prominent Houston-based commercial real estate firm Transwestern. That's at least the admittedly murky impression from ...
