If you're a longtime Towershead, you'll know we spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the development of the Rainey Street District. It's downtown Austin's fastest-growing region in terms of announced or planned projects, but the neighborhood is also geographically isolated due to the boundaries created by Lady Bird Lake and I-35, meaning there are only a few access ...
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Grab Some New Views of the 41-Story Condo Tower Headed to 84 East Avenue
As we announced back in February -- which feels like a decade ago -- the 41-floor downtown Austin condo tower headed for 84 East Avenue will bring a reported 283 "attainably priced" residences to the ever-popular Rainey Street District, courtesy of local developers Pearlstone Partners. A current view of the tower site on East Avenue. Though our minds are obviously ...
Discover a Different Rainey Street in This Unearthed 1981 Documentary
The Rainey Street neighborhood, currently downtown Austin's fastest-growing corner, was once a predominantly Mexican-American district of single-family homes. Effectively annexed into the downtown area and cut off from adjacent neighborhoods by the construction of I-35 in the early 1960s, Rainey Street's proximity to downtown and Lady Bird Lake made the district extremely ...
Is Rainey Street Better Without Cars?
Have you experienced the car-free version of Rainey Street? If not, you've got about a month left to check out the City of Austin pilot program closing the street to all motor vehicle traffic from 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays between December 5, 2019 and March 8, 2020. It's part of a larger effort to address the mobility and safety issues in this ...
Here’s a Shiny New View of the Travis Apartment Tower Bound for Rainey
As we're prone to doing on this website, we've spent a lot of time thinking about the new heights the Travis might soon bring to the west edge of the Rainey Street District in downtown Austin. The project hopes to eventually raise two towers atop the 2.3-acre former condo site at 80 Red River Street across two phases of development -- the first phase tower rising 50 floors to ...
