The Trail Foundation's vision for an improved Hike-and-Bike Trail entrance -- or trailhead, using the preferred hiker-and-biker parlance -- in downtown Austin's rapidly-growing Rainey Street District is finally taking shape this month. At a public engagement meeting held last weekend, the nonprofit showed off two possible design configurations of an upgraded entry point and ...
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Downtown Austin’s Extended Stay America is Finally Coming Down
Two years after the announcement of 6 X Guadalupe, a 66-story mixed-use tower planned at the northwest corner of Sixth and Guadalupe Streets in downtown Austin, the '90s-era hotel currently occupying the site is finally, mercifully, waving goodbye. And hey, it's about time! This demolition arrived a little later than we thought, but on this foggy Tuesday afternoon ...
Waller Creek Looked Pretty Bad in 1977
Though we've still got a ways to go before the completion of the Waterloo Greenway, the stretch of Waller Creek running through downtown Austin has already come pretty far -- the photo above shows the condition of the creek (full of garbage, mostly) in 1977, looking south between East Fifth and East Sixth Streets. Here's a current view from roughly the same perspective, with ...
This New Masonic Lodge Tower Design Rules and We Should Build It Yesterday
It hasn't been a particularly easy road for the developers of a potential tower addition to the Royal Arch Masonic Lodge, a historic 1926 three-story brick building currently standing at the corner of West Seventh and Lavaca Streets in downtown Austin. The city's Historic Landmark Commission has now postponed its vote on a certificate of appropriateness for the project ...
VIDEO: An Inside Look at Downtown Austin’s Indeed Tower Project
Though we stick to the written word for the most part, sometimes nothing beats a video for getting your point across -- so here's one of the best we've seen in a while. It's from construction firm PERI Formwork Systems, working with DPR Construction, describing some of the specific challenges of building the Block 71 / Indeed Tower office project in the heart of downtown ...
