Like almost every week, it was a good week for towers in downtown Austin. This time around, we got a look at an all-new development in the Rainey Street District, plus progress updates for a few other projects -- not to mention some extremely fresh new renderings. As they say in the old country, "bada bing, bada boom:" 90 Rainey Street Local developer and Urbanspace CEO ...
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Rounding Up Development in Austin’s Growing East 12th Street Corridor
Development along Austin's East 12th Street has been a long time coming, with anticipation fueled for months -- years, really -- by hush-hush land acquisitions and speculation, not to mention quite a few projects in various stages of approval, though not much actually moving on the ground. It's safe to say that's changed recently, with one major commercial project nearing ...
Central Austin Development Roundup: Lots of Holes in the Ground
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 ...
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 ...