A development planned for an assembly of properties along Rainey Street currently occupied mostly by the Rainey Street Food Truck Lot is currently seeking city approval for the construction of a 48-story tower bringing more residences to this downtown Austin neighborhood — and though it’s not the tallest plan underway in the district, if built this would displace an earlier proposal and be unique…
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Homes Could Rise Nearly 100 Glorious Feet at a Riverside Business School
UPDATE: It turns out that despite the 120-foot height maximum of the zoning change achieved by this property, the ERC development bonus program doesn’t supersede the height limits of this area’s Waterfront Overlay district imposed by its proximity to Lady Bird Lake — meaning the maximum height of new development allowed here will be 96…
Affordable Housing Unlocks Surprising New Heights at Cambrian East Riverside
Despite the explosive variety of multifamily housing development along East Riverside Drive in Southeast Austin, one thing is almost always the same — the buildings are six floors tall at most, the ubiquitous wood-framed apartment configuration known in cities all over the country as a one-plus-five. (You’ll notice the first image on the Wikipedia entry for this building style literally…
Timbercreek Redevelopment Could Bring 550 Apartments to Bouldin
The redevelopment of a 1970s-era South Austin apartment community could bring up to 550 new apartment units to the Bouldin Creek neighborhood, only a stone’s throw from the city’s growing South Central Waterfront district. The proposal, outlined in a briefing by Austin’s Planning and Zoning Department at a meeting of the city’s Environmental Commission earlier this week, will…
Aura On Lamar Apartments Head for North Loop’s ‘Friendly Whale’
Hey, remember the weird chunk of land at the southeast corner of North Lamar Boulevard and West Koenig Lane we decided was shaped kinda like a whale? This guy: The quirky and currently quite empty 3.4-acre tract at 5629 North Lamar Boulevard, purchased from the State of Texas last year for an undisclosed sum by Dallas-based multifamily developer Trinsic…
Here’s What’s Next at Symphony Square
Symphony Square, a mixed-use office and multifamily residential tower planned in the northeast corner of downtown Austin by global development firm Greystar, has bounced around the early stages of realization for several months at this point. The project’s situated atop a roughly 1.7-acre land assembly including the Austin Symphony Orchestra offices at 1117 Red River Street, and the large drive-through Velocity…