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…
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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…
The Vesper Condo Tower Wraps Up in Downtown Austin’s Rainey Street District
The 41-story Vesper condo tower is now complete in the Rainey Street District of downtown Austin, with its first phase of move-ins kicking off this week. According to developers Pearlstone Partners and sales agency Prospect Real Estate, the building is currently 67 percent sold. The 452-foot tower broke ground in the summer of 2021, situated on a small 0.4-acre site at…
Shell Plans Two Electric Vehicle Charging Hubs in Austin
Multinational petroleum giant Shell is leaning into a recently announced strategic pivot towards electric vehicles, with plans to nearly quadruple its existing network of EV charging stations by 2030 — and Austin appears to be one of the first cities on the list for the oil company’s Houston-based U.S. subsidiary, with at least two local properties owned by entities…
Lamar Business Park Rezoning Approved in North Loop
The redevelopment of the Lamar Business Park, an approximately 14-acre shopping center and office park in the North Loop neighborhood of Central Austin best known for its anchor tenants of Goodwill and Half Price Books, is now free to move forward at 5555 North Lamar Boulevard after receiving a vertical mixed-use rezoning from Austin City Council at its…
The Children Yearn for UNO Everywhere
A resolution passed earlier today by Austin City Council directs our beloved city staff to research how to gas up UNO. What’s UNO? Well, UNO is for you and me, and UNO’s building density. UNO keeps rents lower here than any district far or near! UNO stands for “University Neighborhood Overlay,” of course, but that’s not as fun to sing or…