Quarters, a communal housing brand by German startup Medici Living Group described as the "WeWork of co-living," appears headed for downtown Austin. That's at least the extremely convincing case built by a series of recent city documents and corporate filings, which heavily imply the .25-acre tract at 1108 Nueces Street will soon become the next planned American ...
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The Forgotten History of Normandie Arms, Austin’s First Apartment Tower
What was the first high-rise apartment building in Austin? This is obviously a trick question, but the people who keep track of this stuff will generally tell you it's the 15-story Cambridge Tower, which opened in 1965. Using the modern (and not entirely agreed-upon) definition of a high-rise, they're absolutely correct -- especially because we're not counting the ...
Micro-Apartments Head for West 12th Street’s Unofficial ‘Skateboard District’
You and I will likely never understand exactly how it feels to bomb down Castle Hill on a skateboard, which is nearly as sad for our collective joie de vivre as it is deeply comforting to our insurance providers. All you really need to know is that despite its character ranging from million-dollar homes to interior design studios, the stretch of West 12th Street spanning both ...
In Far East Austin, Govalle’s Going Up
The Midtown RV Park, located at 720 Airport Boulevard on the far east end of Austin's equally far-east Govalle neighborhood, is no more. In its place will rise Nexus East, a 352-unit apartment project by local development firm Ardent Residential, split between two four-story buildings atop the former RV park's sizable 8.375-acre tract. The Nexus development -- though ...
The South Lamarization of East Riverside Is Coming Soon
South Lamar Boulevard and East Riverside Drive have a lot in common. They're both what the city considers "core transit corridors," and that means they're ideal for dense multi-story development often in the form of vertical mixed-use (VMU) buildings, which in theory enhance the street-level pedestrian environment along the corridor by improving sidewalks and adding ...
