On the eve of the Fourth of July, local architectural firm Thrower Design submitted documents to the city's Development Services Department describing two concepts for a three-story multifamily project that would theoretically be built near the corner of East Cesar Chavez and Clara Streets. We qualify the concept as theoretical, because the company that retained Thrower ...
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East Austin Townhome Project Tries a Throwback Look on Tillery Street
Next door to the East Fifth Condos at Fifth and Tillery Streets in the Govalle-Johnston Terrace neighborhood, there sits a well-kept little blue house on a single-family lot -- and if the owners of two small woman-owned local businesses get their way, it will soon be replaced with six two-story townhomes. The concept for these new townhomes could not be a more stark ...
Fun Facts on Downtown’s Upcoming Alexan Capitol Apartment Tower
We've been following the Alexan Capitol apartment tower planned by developer Trammell Crow Residential Company for quite a while, but things appear to be moving right along for this 30-story mixed-use project bound for a relatively sleepy corner of downtown at 700 East 11th Street. New city filings for the building have provided us with a few fun new pieces of ...
Block L Project Could Be the Final Phase of the Domain’s Residential Boom
March 7 marked a milestone in the Domain, for that was the day the City of Austin Development Services office issued the last site plan permit of more than a dozen residential building permits in the master-planned mixed-use development. Dallas-based Columbus Realty Partners Ltd., the developer, obtained the permit for Block L, an apartment complex otherwise referred to in ...
East Riverside Drive’s Apartment Boom Continues With Aspen Heights Project
Developer Aspen Heights Partners plans to break ground this summer on Aspen Heights Riverside, a $42 million, 325-unit market-rate apartment complex off East Riverside Drive, on what is mostly vacant land. Located in the 1700 block of Willow Creek Drive, the project's been making its way through the city's review process since last June. The site is comprised of 11 ...