The Waller Creek Conservancy has been around town since 2010, but the way CEO Peter Mullan tells it, the organization's had some trouble getting Austinites to notice. "People tell me all the time that they have no idea where Waller Creek is," he says. "They'll say they've never heard of Creek Show -- which we launched in 2014 -- but that they've definitely been to the ...
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At the Drake Bridge Commons, New Public Space Brings Docks Downtown
The last time we caught up with the Drake Bridge Commons -- a project by Austin's Trail Foundation imagining a new downtown public space beneath the Drake Bridge carrying First Street across Lady Bird Lake -- we had two design options to choose between as part of the community engagement stage of the plan. Now, based on that input, the foundation's settled on one. You wanna see ...
At Downtown Austin’s Block 36, ‘Micro-Unit’ Apartments and Billboards Mingle
We've waited for a rendering of developer Transwestern's Block 36 apartment project in downtown Austin for the better part of two years at this point, so long in fact that we have all become skeletons sitting patiently in our chairs. But the wait is over! Recent marketing materials for the project give us our first good look at the planned five-story building, which is ...
Austin’s Finally Fixing Up John Treviño Metro Park — But Not Too Much
Only twenty scant acres smaller than Zilker Park, the 330-acre tract of former ranchland at the edge of District 1 now known as John Treviño Jr. Metro Park is perhaps the second most underutilized park space in far East Austin. The first, of course, is Walter E. Long Metro Park, but the almost bizarrely ambitious $800 million master plan for that enormous potential ...
At Holly Point, Long-Awaited Upgrades Head for an East Austin Park
The long-discussed plan for the improvement of East Austin's enormous tracts of parkland on the north shores of Lady Bird Lake near the former Holly Power Plant is finally taking its first small steps, nearly a decade after City Council approved the development of a vision for upgrading the area in 2009. Generally referred to as Holly Shores but technically containing ...
