This week, we need you to be thinking about trolls. You need to be talking about trolls. When you see a stranger, your first impulse should be to ask them about their stance on “the troll issue.” You should start describing yourself as “trollpilled.” The source of this recent obsession is the Pease Park Conservancy,…
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This October, Celebrate Austin’s First ‘Legacy Business Month’
As advocates for economic development in Austin, it’s tough to see iconic local businesses struggling with the city’s current growing pains — between sky-high land values, labor shortages due to our festering housing crisis, and a municipal permitting bureaucracy largely unchanged since the 1980s, it takes increasingly deep . . . Become a patron to get the full story and…
Erwin Center Demolition Work Could Start Next Month in Downtown Austin
The reveal last month that the University of Texas is pursuing a $2.5 billion partnership with the MD Anderson Cancer Center to construct a cancer treatment and research hub in downtown Austin was fantastic news for the city’s emerging Innovation District . . . Become a patron to get the full story and gain access…
Southeast Austin’s Oracle Campus Planning Office and Hotel Addition
The sprawling waterfront headquarters of software multinational Oracle Corporation could soon expand once again in Southeast Austin, according to recent city permits. The firm, which opened a large office campus on South Lakeshore Boulevard in 2018 and designated the site as its new corporate headquarters two . . . Become a patron to get the full story…
Brush Square’s Back in Downtown Austin
The current heat wave hasn’t made it easy to notice, but fences are finally down at Brush Square in downtown Austin. After a year of construction and roughly five years of planning efforts, the first phase of improvements to this longtime downtown public space at 409 East Fifth Street are substantially complete. Although you . . . Become…
See Downtown Austin’s Capitol View Corridors in Eye-Popping 3D
You can’t fully understand the growth of downtown Austin without understanding Capitol View Corridors — the invisible walls protecting views of the State Capitol dome from all over downtown and other parts of the central city. But the only way to really visualize these corridors outside of looking at a