Today’s Statesman brought to light new details on the planned 55-story Austonian:
The Austonian, the swanky 55-story condo tower planned for Second Street and Congress Avenue, is pulling out the stops on amenities. The bathrooms will have marble walls; the kitchens will have Italian cabinets and built-in cappuccino machines, and 54th floor lounge will have a catering kitchen. A 10th floor “urban garden” will include a lap pool, billiard room and outdoor movie screen. It also will have a dog park with a scented, self-cleaning doggie toilet — just the thing for pampered high-rise pooches. Prices will range from $550,000 to $3.8 million and higher than that for buyers who create a custom unit on the three highest floors. “We knew what the standard was, and we wanted to blow it out of the water,” said Laura Gottesman, whose firm, Gottesman Windham Real Estate, is marketing the units.
The market remains unproven for super-high-end projects — it will be interesting to see whether there is enough demand to make the Austonian successful.
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