At the end of 2018, we asked Austinites to tell us where they considered to be the "heart" of downtown Austin -- a simple-sounding question that ended up generating a pretty wide range of responses. Still, even though we got some interesting takes, the survey ended up confirming our suspicions about what part of downtown Austinites would probably choose the most -- by a ...
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Where’s the ‘Heart’ of Downtown Austin?
Here's a question for you that sounds almost offensively simple until you start thinking about it: Where's downtown Austin's "heart?" You'll see that phrase -- "the heart of downtown Austin" -- in glossy hotel brochures and Airbnb listings and even on this very site, but where do you think of when you see it? We asked some people around the office and got different ...
Here’s a Closer Look at Travis County’s New Downtown Courthouse
Back in July, we saw our first rendering of Travis County's new civil and family courts facility planned at 1700 Guadalupe Street atop a city block bound by Guadalupe, San Antonio, 17th, and 18th Streets. Now, thanks to the project's application to Austin's Downtown Density Bonus Program through the city's Design Commission, we've got a better understanding than ...
The Only Good Visitor’s Guide to Austin’s Convention District
Though our civic apparatus and the greater convention center-industrial complex would have you believe the ever-expanding Austin Convention Center is a critical economic booster for the city, the jury's still out for plenty of Austinites on where the sprawling center, which currently occupies six city blocks, falls on the continuum between "necessary" and ...
TEMPO 2D Public Art Program Commissions 12 New Austin Murals
For 33 years, the City of Austin's Art in Public Places program has worked with artists -- some local, others national -- to create eye-catching works of public art around the city. Along with permanent installations like the variety of art pieces planned or already in place at our new Central Library (check out those glowing-eyed owl statues at the bottom of the page), ...