The Austin Proper Hotel & Residences, with its lodging and restaurant operations already open for business as of last month, has begun the closing process for its residential units this week, with owners expected to begin moving in soon. Announced by Los Angeles-based real estate development firm the Kor Group all the way back in 2015, this 32-story downtown Austin ...
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Two Towers at the Railyard Could Redefine Austin’s Skyline Twice
After last year's blockbuster $104 million sale of downtown Austin condo community the Railyard to Los Angeles investment firm Karlin Real Estate, we knew it was only a matter of time before the site's redevelopment -- in part simply because it's a big piece of land downtown, roughly 1.6 acres of low-rise residential units spanning two half-blocks on both sides of San ...
East Austin’s Centro Offices Will Transform Nearly Two Full Blocks
Centro, a mixed-use development by local firm Riverside Resources set to bring five floors of office and retail space to the so-called "Saltillo District" of East Austin, is still working its way through the city's permitting process -- meaning the project technically exists mostly on people's computers at this point. But looking at renderings doesn't really give you a ...
Downtown Austin’s Block 87 Tower Returns With a Freshened-Up Design
A towering future for the full block at 701 Trinity Street bound by Neches, Trinity, Seventh and Eighth Streets could finally take shape, after years of speculation and modifications to a challenging design in a challenging location. What's known as Block 87 in the original downtown Austin plan, now home only to a parking lot, was originally purchased by the Episcopal Church ...
Windsor Park’s First Shopping Center Looks Ready to Grow. But How?
Windsor Village, the first shopping center opened in the midcentury Windsor Park neighborhood of East Austin in 1960, could someday host a transformative redevelopment of its property into a major residential and retail complex courtesy of prominent Houston-based commercial real estate firm Transwestern. That's at least the admittedly murky impression from ...
