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Take a Look at the 45-Story Apartment Tower Headed for Fifth and Lavaca

James Rambin January 8, 2019 Comment

Over the last six months or so, we’ve seen a steady stream of progress on a tower plan by apartment developers the Hanover Company at the southwest corner of Fifth and Lavaca Streets in downtown Austin. Still, until now we weren’t certain of the building’s height or appearance — enter some new city site plan filings that give us a reasonable impression of both:

Eastern and southern elevations of the Hanover apartment tower planned at Fifth and Lavaca Streets. Click for a larger view. Image: SCB / The Hanover Company

As you can see, we’re looking at a 45-story, 504-foot tower, ready to rise on a site technically comprising three addresses — 301, 303, and 305 West Fifth Street — all of which are unencumbered by Capitol View Corridors or other constraints, though the building will need to seek approval from the Downtown Density Bonus Program to build to its desired floor-area ratio.

Western and northern elevations of the Hanover apartment tower planned at Fifth and Lavaca Streets. Click for a larger view. Image: SCB / The Hanover Company

The building’s architect, national firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) previously designed Hanover’s nearby Northshore development — perhaps not downtown’s signature building, but one of the nicer towers on that side of town, in our opinion.

The prospective tower’s layout, as seen in the plans above, includes restaurant space on the ground floor along with a 10-story parking podium, then apartments up to the 43rd floor — the 44th and 45th floors are reserved for resident amenity space. Based on the footprint seen in these latest plans, along with the stated height of 504 feet, we’ve put together a rough massing that shows how this tower would look in the downtown skyline — it’s not exact, obviously, but the height should be approximately correct:

A rough massing of the Hanover Fifth and Lavaca Street apartment tower, based on the height and footprint given in these plans. Image: Google Maps / James Rambin
The same massing of the expected height of the Hanover tower at Fifth and Lavaca, just pulled back a little so you can better see its presence in the skyline. Image: Google Maps / James Rambin

One of the most curious elements of following this plan has been the uncertain future of the Roosevelt Room, the cocktail bar directly to the west of the site. If the new tower is developed to the specifications of the current plans we have, the Roosevelt Room’s two-story structure will find itself slightly awkwardly sandwiched between Hanover’s 45-story tower and the 12-story Plaza Lofts building at the corner of Fifth and Guadalupe Streets.

A landscape plan for the Fifth and Lavaca tower, showing both its streetscape improvements and the gap between its footprint and the Roosevelt Room, seen directly to the left of the floor plan. The lot on the far left is occupied by the Plaza Lofts condos. Click for a larger view. Image: The Hanover Company

Word on the street is that Hanover initially planned to purchase the property and develop the tower on top of it in some fashion, but the deal must have fallen through — we’ve heard from the bar’s management that they’re not planning to sell for the moment, meaning one of the better cocktail destinations on this side of downtown appears to be safe for the time being.

Header image caption: The southwest corner of Fifth and Lavaca Streets, where a residential tower is planned by apartment developer the Hanover Company. Photo by James Rambin.

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About James Rambin

James is an Austin native, but tries not to brag about it. He writes about new development, local history, and urban design. Email him anything at james@towers.net.

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