On West 34th Street just north of Hemphill Park in the North University region of Central Austin, you’ll find a nearly century-old style of housing that barely exists in the city at the moment — the cottage court. The project, known as the 34th Street Cottages, contains five small homes and dates back to the…
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Hotel and Restaurant Project Planned for Downtown Austin’s ‘Lawyer District’
A rezoning case filed earlier this month for an assembly of two adjacent properties near the intersection of West Avenue and West Ninth Street could bring more life to the so-called “Lawyer District” on the west end of downtown Austin, a region largely excluded from the rest of downtown’s denser zoning and defined by older single-family homes often converted…
Searching for Gaylord Sackler
The Gaylord Sackler Memorial Skate Park opened in the Mueller neighborhood of Central Austin last summer, an approximately 15,000-square-foot haven for skaters also featuring the first concrete pump track for BMX bikes ever built in Texas. Part of the master-planned neighborhood’s large Southeast Greenway park space envisioned by Mueller’s lead developers at California-based real estate firm Catellus and local landscape architecture…
Demolition Planned for City-Owned Home Depot Site in North Austin
The former Home Depot store currently sitting empty on a roughly 19-acre tract of city-owned land along Interstate 35 in the St. Johns neighborhood of Northeast Austin could soon be demolished, according to a number of permits filed earlier this week. It’s only the latest update in a frustratingly long saga to redevelop the vacant store located at 7211 North Interstate…
Downtown’s Historic State Theatre Prepares for Renovation on Congress
The State Theatre, originally opened in 1935 at 719 Congress Avenue in the heart of downtown Austin, is a striking work of Art Deco architecture — and as the first theatre in the city purpose-built for screening movies, it’s also historically interesting. But its location, directly next door to the larger and grander Paramount Theatre, has arguably relegated…
Here’s How the City Plans To Upgrade East Austin’s Red Line Rails and Trails
An upcoming project by the Austin’s Transportation and Public Works Department aims to improve pedestrian and bike access along East Fifth Street as part of two planned efforts by CapMetro to double-track the Red Line rail transit network along its existing path through East Austin. The project’s pedestrian upgrades will focus on the stretch of East Fifth Street between Navasota and Pedernales Streets, which includes the…