Though its facilities remain closed to the public in the hottest months of summer thanks to the ongoing pandemic, East Austin's renovated Govalle Pool is ready to roll whenever we are -- and with these much-needed and long-awaited upgrades completed earlier this year after breaking ground back in 2018, it's time to extend the same courtesy to the surrounding facilities at ...
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The View From Austin’s Duncan Park Gets Better Every Year
If you've seen the way the wind's blowing regarding the construction of very tall buildings and accepted that downtown Austin's western boundary is no longer actually West Avenue, but rather North Lamar Boulevard, you might also begin to accept that Duncan Neighborhood Park is possibly the downtown region's most overlooked green space. With Shoal Creek running along ...
Catching Up With the Hatchery, Transforming East Austin’s RBJ Center
A little more than two years after its official groundbreaking, the expansive redevelopment of the Rebekah Baines Johnson Center is making visible progress in East Austin. Soon, we'll be calling it the Hatchery -- and along with the construction of new market-rate residential, retail, and office space at the 17.8-acre site just southeast of downtown, its existing 250 units of ...
Pease Park Has a Plan
Did you know that Pease Park is technically Austin's first and oldest public park? Donated to the City of Austin in 1875 by Texas Governor Elisha M. Pease, this 84-acre linear park following Shoal Creek up 16 blocks of North Lamar Boulevard is only predated by the public squares laid out in Austin's original city plan by Edwin Waller back in 1839 -- but those weren't exactly ...
Celebrating Austin’s Finest Public Restroom Architecture
Austin's got its problems, sure, but one thing this city's crushing is public restroom design. We take this topic very seriously, not only due to an appreciation of good architecture but because we often use these facilities ourselves, and we believe their existence is critical for safe, equitable urban life. Let's round up the best of 'em: Festival Beach Restroom Our ...
