After nearly two years of leaked renderings, city permit filings, and other eyebrow-raising scraps of intel, the news is finally here in official form: the tower planned in downtown Austin at 98 Red River Street by developers Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi Residential quietly broke ground on June 13 earlier this year — and when the 74-story building reaches its maximum height of…
residential
Fixing Up Downtown Austin’s Secret Porch at 301 Congress
Downtown Austin’s most overlooked outdoor space is located on Fourth Street, at the halfway point of the block between Congress Avenue and Brazos Street — it’s sort of like a backyard to the 301 Congress office tower, containing a couple of trees and a bit too much pavement tucked away next to the building’s parking…
14th and Lavaca Is Austin’s First Victory Over the Capitol Dominance Overlay
Demolition is currently underway at the southwest corner of 14th and Lavaca Streets in downtown Austin, clearing a number of unused properties in preparation for a residential tower development by local builders Pearlstone Partners — and while the site doesn’t really look different from any other downtown demolition at the moment, the project taking shape here at the corner symbolizes the…
Step Inside This Virtual Tour of East Austin’s Historic Oakwood Cemetery
Oakwood Cemetery, as Austin’s oldest city burial ground dating back to 1839 and growing through the years to its current size of approximately 40 acres at 1601 Navasota Street, is the resting place for generations of the city’s history — but the memories buried here, reflecting the formerly segregated surrounding neighborhoods of East Austin, were unequally distributed, some forgotten for more…
Congress Lofts at St. Elmo Condo Project Starts Construction Next Month
A South Austin condo project headed to the emerging St. Elmo District off South Congress Avenue is scheduled to begin construction next month, according to its local developer Intracorp. Located at the site of a former used car dealership at 4315 South Congress Avenue near a number of other recent additions to the neighborhood, the Congress Lofts at St. Elmo project will rise…
Hanover Republic Square Residential Tower Opens in Downtown Austin
If you’re anything like us, you may have noticed on your traipses through downtown lately that the 45-story Hanover Republic Square apartment tower at the corner of West Fifth and Lavaca Streets is looking pretty much done. Heck, it’s so new that the project is still under construction in its Google Street View taken earlier this year: While it’s sometimes hard…