Last year, TOWERS profiled the ongoing growth of Chestnut Plaza and the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) at MLK Jr. Boulevard and Alexander Avenue, located in East Austin at the MLK Jr. Station of Capital Metro's Red Line. Nearly 10 years after the rail station first opened, the area around it still has plenty of empty space waiting for growth, but some of those gaps should ...
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With ‘The Hatchery,’ East Austin’s RBJ Center Heads Back to the Future
The redevelopment of East Austin's Rebekah Baines Johnson Center, a 1972 housing complex for low-income seniors built on a 17.8-acre tract southeast of downtown, is slowly gaining steam -- and the project's recently-revealed name, "The Hatchery," evokes the curious history of this property even as it creates a new master-planned community for housing Austin's future. After a ...
Downtown Austin’s Getting a 15-Floor Drive-Thru Bank at Fifth and Nueces
We've known some flavor of office tower project was headed for the Horizon Bank building located at the northwest corner of West Fifth and Nueces Streets in the "financial district" of downtown Austin since last month, thanks to the reliable canary in the coal mine of city development filings. Though much of the tower's mystery remained intact at the time of our last coverage, ...
East of the Capitol, Symphony Square’s Getting Taller Very Carefully
We've said this before, but the region of downtown Austin sandwiched between the eastern edge of the Capitol grounds and I-35 is one of the city's most interesting areas for potential growth. There are projects in the pipeline both in and around it, but for clarity's sake let's focus on the box formed by East 15th and East 11th Streets; San Jacinto Boulevard, and the I-35 ...
South Lamar’s Dead Taco Cabana Rides Again, With a Hotel and Condos on Deck
Everything old is new again at the southeast corner of South Lamar Boulevard and West Riverside Drive, as a long-delayed project perhaps best known for irritating its neighbors and not being built for years finally springs into action once more. That's at least the impression recent city filings give us regarding the 0.93-acre property at 211 South Lamar Boulevard, ...
