After substantial public engagement and a final engineering report issued back in July, the City of Austin's Transportation Department has nailed down its plans for a pedestrian bridge crossing Lady Bird Lake near Longhorn Dam in East Austin -- and as we'd hoped, the "Wishbone" bridge option presented alongside several others last year is the prize pig, ready to enter the ...
urbanism
In Defense of 405 Colorado
405 Colorado, an office tower by Brandywine Realty Trust now noticeably on the rise at the northeast corner of West Fourth and Colorado Streets, has managed to snatch the title of "most divisive downtown architecture" away from the Independent -- and that makes sense, because it's a pretty unusual building in its own right. Expected by 2022, the project's already starting to ...
Dreaming of a Downtown Austin H-E-B
Let's say there's a completely unsubstantiated rumor floating around that the H-E-B grocery company is working on building a store somewhere in downtown Austin. (There is.) That's a great way to create some intrigue, since a project like this would absolutely change the game for downtown dwellers -- yeah, we love Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, but in the end these stores serve ...
Enjoy the Shade at Brazos Bluff, the Hike-and-Bike Trail’s Latest Upgrade
In all the chaos of the pandemic, we neglected to notice that the Trail Foundation, Austin's nonprofit stewards of the Hike-and-Bike Trail, reached a nice milestone -- Brazos Bluff, one of the organization's 15 trail improvement projects marking the 15th anniversary of its founding, celebrated its completion last month. The project creates a stopping point with ...
Austin Finally Has Takeout and Delivery Cocktails That Don’t Suck. What’s Next?
It's been more than a week since the State of Texas made cocktails served "to go" a reality for pickup and delivery orders at pandemic-stricken restaurants and bars, with a new waiver from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott expanding the previous, less cool waiver that only allowed takeout drinks within narrow parameters -- which didn't help struggling businesses all that much since the ...
