Ever heard of the downtown Austin "Panhandle?" We've used this charmingly western-tinged name from time to time for the weird little peninsula of the 78701 ZIP code between I-35 and Lady Bird Lake south of Cesar Chavez Street, most of which is occupied by the Rainey Street District. Look, it's a little panhandle! This minor geographic anomaly makes the panhandle ...
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A Tower’s Headed for Downtown Austin’s Historic Royal Arch Masonic Lodge
A roughly 30-story tower project could soon rise from a historic Masonic lodge building in downtown Austin, according to a collection of planning documents filed in preparation for tonight's meeting of the city's Historic Landmark Commission. The documents, part of a certificate of appropriateness application filed with the commission by local architects Brett Rhode of Rhode ...
Take a Closer Look at the Travis, the Rainey District’s New Tallest Tower
We've already gotten one peek at what's planned for the Travis, a mixed-use project building two towers at 80 Red River Street in downtown's Rainey Street District, which could break ground as early as later this year -- but remember, the project's developers, Dallas-based Genesis Real Estate Group, say they're building this thing in phases. We saw the Phase I tower back ...
99 Trinity Site Faces Foreclosure
It's been six years since the announcement of a tower project at 99 Trinity Street in downtown Austin, but landowner WC 1st and Trinity LP has another problem on its hands besides the residential development's seemingly complete lack of progress -- an imminent threat of foreclosure by its lender. Warehouses have occupied the southeast corner of Trinity and East Cesar Chavez ...
Downtown Austin’s Getting a 15-Floor Drive-Thru Bank at Fifth and Nueces
We've known some flavor of office tower project was headed for the Horizon Bank building located at the northwest corner of West Fifth and Nueces Streets in the "financial district" of downtown Austin since last month, thanks to the reliable canary in the coal mine of city development filings. Though much of the tower's mystery remained intact at the time of our last coverage, ...
