What do you call the part of downtown Austin northwest of the Capitol? No, I don't mean Judge's Hill, a neighborhood located further to the west than this area according to its self-defined boundaries -- we're talking about the region roughly bound by West 12th Street to the south, Rio Grande Street to the west, MLK Jr. Boulevard to the north, and Lavaca or perhaps ...
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The Only Good Visitor’s Guide to Austin’s Convention District
Though our civic apparatus and the greater convention center-industrial complex would have you believe the ever-expanding Austin Convention Center is a critical economic booster for the city, the jury's still out for plenty of Austinites on where the sprawling center, which currently occupies six city blocks, falls on the continuum between "necessary" and ...
CodeNEXT Is Dead, Long Live CodeNEXT!
CodeNEXT, Austin's long-awaited rejiggering of the land development code, is dead. Mayor Steve Adler was the first politician to acknowledge the reality that "something has gone horribly wrong" and the project had been "poisoned" by "misinformation, hyperbole, fearmongering, and divisive rhetoric." The news cycle moved from breaking news to roundups and ...
You Are Here: Hyde Park
It's difficult to say anything new about Hyde Park. Perhaps Austin's most beloved central neighborhood, the area bound by Guadalupe, West 45th, Duval, and West 38th Streets has been extensively preserved, chronicled, celebrated, and fought for with an intensity arguably unlike that of any other part of the city. Like Windsor Park, the similarly posh-sounding neighborhood ...
Getting to Know East Austin’s Chestnut Plaza
It's kind of cliche at this point to mention how much a particular area of East Austin has changed. Still, if the breakneck pace of development on this side of town continues, it's in our best interest to make this growth as smart as possible. That's the intended goal of the Transit Oriented-Development (TOD) known as Chestnut Plaza emerging around the MLK Jr. ...