Anderson Square is the official name for the 16-acre ocean of asphalt located at the southwest corner of the interchange between Highway 183, West Anderson Lane, and North Lamar Boulevard in Central Austin; a sleepy yet humongous shopping center anchored by a Hobby Lobby, Planet Fitness, and one of the city’s most consistently underused parking lots. Aside…
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In Austin, ‘More Housing’ Doesn’t Scare People Quite Like It Used To
The transformative land use changes passed by Austin City Council last week didn’t come out of nowhere, although the possibility of their adoption felt like wild fantasy only a few short years ago. The speed of Austin’s
The City’s Barton Springs Road Safety Project Works. Where Should It Go Next?
After a history of serious car crashes and a particularly dramatic accident in 2022 injuring 10 people, the yearlong safety pilot implemented on Barton Springs Road by the City of Austin . . . Become a patron to get the full story and gain access to TOWERS’ archive. (Sign-in)
Rainey Street’s Opening a Temporary Pocket Park This Summer
As cranes and towers rise in tandem over the Rainey Street District, the fate of a small 0.27-acre parcel at the corner of Rainey and River Streets is a more subtle topic of ongoing discussion in this downtown Austin neighborhood — owned by the City of Austin since 2003, the corner tract of city-owned land at 64 Rainey Street was…
Here’s How South Austin’s Twin Oaks Shopping Center Could Redevelop
We were pretty tickled to dig up the news last year that Dallas-based developers Trammell Crow Company and its subsidiary High Street Residential were planning a mixed-use redevelopment of South Austin’s largely vacant Twin Oaks Shopping Center at 2315 South Congress Avenue on behalf of the 10-acre center’s owners at H-E-B. Although the finer details of the plan remained a little…
Remember That 64-Story Rainey Street Hotel Tower? Let’s Not Hold Our Breath
Most unrealized tower plans never officially fail, they just fade away into vaporware. Start dates get kicked down the road, companies restructure, plans change, and so on. For obvious reasons, no sane developer wants to drop a press release announcing they aren’t building something — in Austin, that means out of the massive crop of…