The residents of the Bouldin Creek neighborhood in South Austin must really love wings. That's at least the impression I'm getting from a recent Austin Monitor article covering the Stream Realty Partners development of a mixed-use office building at 425 West Riverside Drive, a large triangular lot occupied by the city's only Hooters restaurant and not much else. Let's take ...
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Statesman Sale Shines Spotlight on South Central Waterfront’s Future
On Halloween earlier this week, we learned that Cox Media Group, owners of the Austin American-Statesman since 1976, have put the newspaper up for sale. It's not a particularly spooky news item unless you're a journalist concerned about the uncertain future of Austin's paper of record, but it draws attention to another interesting possibility: the development of the Statesman's ...
More Than 1,000 Apartment Units Headed to Austin’s South Shore
Over the last couple of weeks, we've watched cities around the nation bend over backwards for a chance at the economic windfall of a second Amazon corporate headquarters -- even Cleveland. Cleveland! I was never under the impression Austin was a major contender, with the details of Amazon's RFP appearing fairly out of alignment with the transit and space requirements ...
It’s Mueller Time, Baby!
Austin's Robert Mueller Municipal Airport closed in 1999. The Mueller planned unit development that would transform the site's 700 acres into a new neighborhood and city district broke ground in 2007. Time flies, huh? Now that it's 10 years later, what's going on at Mueller? The district isn't completely finished, but it's certainly well on its way, with roughly 75 percent ...
