As we've mentioned before, the name of the 30-story apartment and office project currently under construction in the Rainey Street District known as the Quincy has nothing to do with Quincy Jones, John Quincy Adams, or Quincy, Massachusetts -- or any local Quincys, for that matter. Instead, its developers at Endeavor Real Estate Group just liked the name, and that's fine by us. ...
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City Plans Purchase of Two Downtown Blocks for Convention Center Expansion
Later this month, Austin's City Council is expected to authorize the first steps of an exclusive negotiation agreement with multiple property owners that would result in the city's purchase of two full adjacent downtown blocks for the planned expansion of the Austin Convention Center, according to documents prepared by the city's Office of Real Estate Services and confirmed by ...
Heading Higher Every Day, Indeed Tower Hits Its Marks on Austin’s Future Skyline
The most striking work of architecture currently demanding your attention on Austin's downtown skyline is undoubtedly Indeed Tower, the 36-story office structure formerly known by its number Block 71 in the original downtown plan and set to be occupied in part by the job-gettin' folks at Indeed along with whichever subtenant those flashy rascals at the Teacher Retirement System ...
A Three-Story Bar Is Business as Usual on Sixth Street, and That’s Too Bad
The longtime "Dirty Sixth" watering hole Maggie Mae's, which has slowly grown in stature at 323 East Sixth Street since its opening in 1978, now sports seven different bars on two levels over thousands of square feet technically spanning three buildings -- and now it's growing upward. That's at least the case presented earlier this week to the City of Austin's Historic Landmark ...
Meet Block 16, a Downtown Austin Tower Plan Surprising Enough for 2020
In the blissful before-times of October 2019, as we unwittingly approached the conclusion of what we're now calling the pre-pandemic era, we learned all about an office tower in the works downtown that would occupy the southern half of Block 16 in Austin's original city plan -- in other words, the bottom half of the block bound by San Jacinto Boulevard, Trinity ...
