An office tower by national commercial developer Ryan Companies will rise 41 floors -- 633 feet and 11 inches, to be exact -- at the southeast corner of West Fifth and Colorado Streets in downtown Austin, according to recent city permit filings and statements from the developers. Occupying nearly a quarter-block, the project contains 463,723 square feet of offices and 1,722 ...
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Here’s Our First Look at South Lamar’s Next Mixed-Use Transformation
South Lamar Boulevard is no stranger to growth, but recent plans show there's still more than enough room left for dense, smart expansion on the corridor -- honest! Next on the menu down south is a 3.88-acre redevelopment of adjacent tracts at 1303, 1311, and 1401 South Lamar Boulevard, which will replace locations of Austin’s Automotive Specialists, Genie ...
Micro-Apartments Head for West 12th Street’s Unofficial ‘Skateboard District’
You and I will likely never understand exactly how it feels to bomb down Castle Hill on a skateboard, which is nearly as sad for our collective joie de vivre as it is deeply comforting to our insurance providers. All you really need to know is that despite its character ranging from million-dollar homes to interior design studios, the stretch of West 12th Street spanning both ...
The South Lamarization of East Riverside Is Coming Soon
South Lamar Boulevard and East Riverside Drive have a lot in common. They're both what the city considers "core transit corridors," and that means they're ideal for dense multi-story development often in the form of vertical mixed-use (VMU) buildings, which in theory enhance the street-level pedestrian environment along the corridor by improving sidewalks and adding ...
Sixth and Lamar is the Worst Intersection in Austin
After two rounds of our extremely rigorous and not-at-all scientific survey about the worst Austin intersections, a majority of votes nearly as overwhelming as traffic itself has brought us a clear answer, at least in the opinion of our readers: Sixth Street and North Lamar Boulevard takes the cake, with more than 30 percent of the vote. We received 538 total votes in this ...
