After a brief pause in local construction due to pandemic-related concerns, work is spinning back up at sites around Austin -- and one of them is really, really visible, smack in the middle of downtown at the corner of Eighth Street and Congress Avenue. Internal demolition and construction work at the future site of the 31-story, 246-room Hyatt Centric Congress Avenue ...
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Current Events Aside, Downtown Austin’s BBVA Tower Plan Is Extremely Narrow
If keeping up with the news over the last week has you more than a little burnt out, we're here with a welcome distraction -- the 60-story apartment and office tower planned by BBVA USA and developer Ryan Companies at 321 West Sixth Street in downtown Austin is extremely narrow. How narrow, you ask? Very. But you wouldn't necessarily be able to tell that from the ...
Here’s a Shiny New View of the Travis Apartment Tower Bound for Rainey
As we're prone to doing on this website, we've spent a lot of time thinking about the new heights the Travis might soon bring to the west edge of the Rainey Street District in downtown Austin. The project hopes to eventually raise two towers atop the 2.3-acre former condo site at 80 Red River Street across two phases of development -- the first phase tower rising 50 floors to ...
12-Story Hilton Hotel Tower Could Rise From Historic 1880s Austin Building
This evening, Austin's Historic Landmark Commission will hear the details of a proposed 12-story tower addition to the historic Bartholomew-Robinson Building at the southeast corner of West 15th and Lavaca Streets downtown. The project would seemingly integrate elements of the existing single-story building, which dates back to the 1880s, into the new structure's ground floor, ...
A Tower’s in the Works at Fourth and Brazos in Downtown Austin
A new tower development could soon rise atop a half-block at the northeast corner of East Fourth and Brazos Streets in downtown Austin -- a rising pocket of the central city blessed with quite a few prominent neighbors also planning towers of their own. Recent city filings for the .81-acre assembly of adjacent tracts at 204, 206, and 216 East Fourth Street, purchased in ...
