Last week, we found out traffic woes and other mobility headaches in the Rainey Street District have prompted the City of Austin's Design Commission to recommend conducting a comprehensive mobility study for the neighborhood. The end goal of the study would use its gathered data and other community input for crafting a "Rainey Neighborhood Mobility Plan," which would contain ...
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For the Rainey Street District, Getting There Is Half the Fun
From an urban planning perspective, the Rainey Street District is one of Austin's weirder locales. A small neighborhood of narrow streets and single-family homes, effectively annexed into downtown by the construction of an interstate highway and later upzoned to allow infill development at the skyscraper scale, the Rainey area now stands as the poster child for downtown Austin ...
Here’s the Travis, Bringing 50 Floors of Apartments to the Rainey Street District
Ever since the Villas on Town Lake condos at 80 Red River Street finally came down earlier this year, we knew it was only a matter of time until we'd see a progress update on The Travis, an apartment tower planned atop the former condo site by Dallas developer Genesis Real Estate Group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CZGcXvqQWg Genesis purchased the 2.3-acre property, ...
Getting to Know 44 East Avenue, Raising the Roof in the Rainey Street District
Although our first good look at the Block 185 office tower was obviously the hottest item at last week's meeting of the City of Austin's Design Commission, another topic of interest showed up on the agenda -- 44 East Avenue, a downtown Austin condo project planned atop a roughly .68-acre plot in the Rainey Street District by Vancouver real estate development outfit Intracorp, ...
The Villas on Town Lake are Coming Down in the Rainey Street District
After sitting vacant for more than a year, downtown Austin condo community the Villas on Town Lake, located at 80 Red River Street, is being torn down even as we speak. Seriously, we just took this -- and we're sorry for the WorldStar-style vertical video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CZGcXvqQWg Built in 1982 before the area's current residential ...