In 2016, the City of Austin adopted a planning framework envisioning a more urban and connected development pattern for the roughly 118-acre collection of adjacent properties directly south of the river from downtown, a district freshly dubbed the South Central Waterfront. The South Central Waterfront Vision Framework Plan — you know, the S.C.W.V.F.P. we all know and love! — was the blueprint, as they say,…
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One Lady Bird Lake Office Tower Project Redesigned for Residential Use
The 15-story tower project announced last year on the south shore of Lady Bird Lake by New York-based development firm the Related Companies will no longer contain approximately 475,000 square feet of office space, according to a set of design development documents for the site dating back to a little more than a month ago. Instead, the building…
South Central Waterfront Tower Plan Could Build Austin an Observation Deck
Last month, we dug into the potential rezoning of the Extended Stay America hotel at 507 South First Street in Austin’s growing South Central Waterfront district, with plans describing a residential tower at this site rising up to 490 feet. This month, an update to that rezoning application filed by local land use firm Armbrust & Brown on behalf of the…