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Uneasy Neighbors: Zilker Residents Want to Keep Downtown “Downtown”

Adolfo Pesquera March 28, 2017 Comment

South Austin managed to get through the 20th century without much fuss, so obsessed were the city fathers with their favorite children—all the neighborhoods north of the Colorado River.

“South Austin was seen as sort of a stepchild,” said Jeff Jack, president of the Zilker Neighborhood Association and local architect.

Residents south of the river thrived in this sort of anonymity, managing to avoid the high cost of living that came with the . . .

 

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Filed Under: Development Watch Tagged With: 78704, commercial, development, housing, interviews, mixed-use, multifamily, neighborhoods, zilker

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A journalist since 1984, Adolfo contributes to TOWERS.net on topics of real estate, transit, local and state government. Email: adolfo@towers.net

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