It turned out to be quite a news week for downtown Austin development, so let's shotgun some stories real quick and feel extremely informed. Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell strangers on the street -- the towers are coming, and some of them are pretty neat. We put the neatest one first: Block 185 Arrives in Style Probably the biggest tower news this week broke ...
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Central Austin Development Roundup: The Hits Just Keep On Coming
By now, I'd really hope that you folks know the drill. It's time to check the pulse on some projects around town, and we're going to have a lot of fun while doing it. Alexa, play "Dublin Blues" by Guy Clark. Block 71 Austin's biggest and best pit is located at the Block 71 office tower site, but it's getting smaller every day as the building's underground parking ...
The Only Good Visitor’s Guide to Austin’s Convention District
Though our civic apparatus and the greater convention center-industrial complex would have you believe the ever-expanding Austin Convention Center is a critical economic booster for the city, the jury's still out for plenty of Austinites on where the sprawling center, which currently occupies six city blocks, falls on the continuum between "necessary" and ...
North Central Roundup: Say ‘Howdy’ to More Than 1,500 Apartment Units
Yesterday, we dug into apartment plans for the former Honda dealership at 1301 West Koenig Lane, but it didn't take long before we realized there's a lot more development worth noting in the north central neighborhoods of Austin. Being downtown-dwellers, we don't always pay enough attention to what's going on in the neighborhoods up north from the University of Texas campus, so ...
Central Austin Development Roundup: Towers, Towers, and More Towers
The hits just keep on coming, y'all. We've got an all-star roundup of local development items revved up for you this week, with almost every update related to a tower on the way in downtown Austin. Giddyup: Fifth & Brazos Hotel The 32-story mixed-use hotel and residential tower by Magellan and Ryan Companies at Fifth & Brazos Streets is really happening. We ...