Downtown Projects

[Fico 1,778]

What is crazy, is that the new construction projects are not commanding the highest rent, as they are having to compete against each other more-so than existing buildings, where existing vacancy is at a premium.  Vacancy for Class A space downtown is sub 6%.

Dirt is going for over $1000 psf for sites that can support office density. 

[KaiserSoze 998]

16 hours ago, Longhorn Al said:

New renderings of Block 185.



 

 

 

They've started pouring concrete for one of the piers...

Edited April 5, 2019 by KaiserSoze

[Guest Lobo]

Well yeah, it’s a sailboat.  They’ll obviously need a pier.  

[MAUFRAIS 6,615]

It’s a schooner you idiot.

[Guest Lobo]

So either way, we’re smashing a champagne bottle on the cornerstone to christen her, ‘the flying wasp’

[KaiserSoze 998]

While blasting Boats 'N Hoes.

[Fico 1,778]

[Armybrat 40,820]

They ought to dub that building as the “Spinnaker “.

[Biff Tannen 45,663]

7 hours ago, Fico said:

This is fantastic

[Longhorn Al 440]

The Travis tower #1

https://www.genesisliving.com/projects

 

 

Cambria Hotel (East Ave)

https://austin.towers.net/two-new-hotels-headed-for-east-avenue-in-the-rainey-street-district/?agent=caitlyn@towers.net

This one will be just south of that Van Halen lookin' hotel.

 

Lady Bird Hotel (East Ave)

This one will be just south of Cambria.

Edited April 10, 2019 by Longhorn Al

[Guest Lobo]

My goodness, what the city could do to alleviate homelessness by selling the Lakeside Apartments.  They could move the residents within central Austin and still have tens of millions left over to tackle housing issues.

[Armybrat 40,820]

And it would end up looking like any other vast “urban renewal” housing project from the 1950s. I recall those huge blocks in St. Louis back then..... infested with crime, trashy, ill- maintained, and eventually imploded a few decades later.

[HOOKEM4 5,036]

On 4/5/2019 at 8:23 PM, Armybrat said:

They ought to dub that building as the “Spinnaker “.

Gennaker imo.

[Armybrat 40,820]

Whichever way the wind blows.

[Longhorn Al 440]

Edit: This site just doesn't like showing large pictures. 

Edited April 11, 2019 by Longhorn Al

[Neonmoon 38,129]

Travis tower looks ugly as fuck. Just seems out of place really. 

[Llano Estacado 1,257]

The 2 Travises of Travis county.



She’s a beaut’ Clark.

[J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. 1,084]

44 minutes ago, Llano Estacado said:

The 2 Travises of Travis county.



She’s a beaut’ Clark.

Brutal.

[Deej 76,751]

RRC says "Hi!"

[Longhorn Al 440]

3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Travis tower looks ugly as fuck. Just seems out of place really. 

It's tall and skinny.  It won't look out of place.  There are a ton of similarly-sized towers planned for that area.

[HornsOverIthaca 2,333]

On 4/5/2019 at 12:04 PM, MAUFRAIS said:

It’s a schooner you idiot.

What?!??

Fuck OU!

[South Austin 52,443]

The Cambria looks pretty cool.  Wife and I stayed at the Cambria in the New Orleans warehouse district for our Sugar Bowl trip and thought it was pretty solid. 

[Guest Lobo]

HEB going in at Randall's site on Lake Austin will actually be about twice the size of the current store (up to 80-85k square feet).  With underground parking.  That should make for a fun construction intersection for a few years.  The ink for the two student housing facilities is about dry.  And Muni is gone.  They already drafted the "this is the best use of the resource for the benefit of students" MOU.  

[Armybrat 40,820]

Muni is gone? What? How? When?

[Guest Lobo]

Not "gone", but everything has been done from the University/System/Regents side.  It's a done deal for them.  It's going to market.  Final boxes will be checked in committee next month.  It'll stay quiet for a few months, maybe even until the end of the year.  

[Llano Estacado 1,257]

Muny is preferred spelling btw. Is under lease until 2020 by the city, Fenves renewed at slightly better rates for UT.

SB-822 is in the house. It would transfer the property to TPWD. Not guarantee they wouldn’t immediately sell it to developers, but “historic public green space” may have better protection there than as part of the UT System

[Pasken 1,309]

48 East in the Rainey area has secured a construction loan and construction should start by summer. It's a 33 story tower with 249 condos for sale.  It also has 274 parking spaces across nine levels, and high-end amenities including a rooftop pool, viewing deck and fitness facility. Units will be as small as 456 square feet and average about 851 square feet 

 

 

imgur

 

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Edited April 29, 2019 by Pasken

[Pasken 1,309]

Downtown Alliance Development report: http://daastaging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IDA-VODT_Austin_Final.pdf

You can see a summary on their site: http://downtownaustin.com/economic-development/state-of-downtown-2019/
 

 

[Armybrat 40,820]

Have noticed that a lot of the Austin skyline renderings are pretty outdated, with a number of now competed buildings missing. Same on the TV news & travel shows.

[Pasken 1,309]

 

 

RIP Rebels. New Apartment tower going up there.

Edited May 1, 2019 by Pasken

[Armybrat 40,820]

That’s a tight squeeze for the demo.

[Longhorn Al 440]

10 hours ago, Armybrat said:

That’s a tight squeeze for the demo.

That's what she said.

[Armybrat 40,820]

Nowhere to go butt up.

[Longhorn Al 440]

The 3 projects NW of the Capitol that are in the pipeline.  Photos from austin.towers.net.

 

 

17th Street Condos (27 fl - 319 ft)

https://austin.towers.net/heres-our-first-look-at-the-condo-tower-headed-for-17th-and-guadalupe/?agent=caitlyn@towers.net

 

 

Hilton Garden 17th Street Hotel (18 fl - 230 ft)

https://austin.towers.net/west-17th-street-hotel-brings-height-to-downtowns-northern-gap/?agent=caitlyn@towers.net

 

 

Travis County Civil & Family Courthouse (13 fl - 239 ft)

https://austin.towers.net/heres-a-closer-look-at-travis-countys-new-downtown-courthouse/?agent=caitlyn@towers.net

 

[LonghornSean 3,989]

Damn, I think that 17th street condos is going to encroach on my view of the tower.

[tokamak 6,391]

On 5/15/2019 at 9:29 PM, Longhorn Al said:

17th Street Condos (27 fl - 319 ft)

https://austin.towers.net/heres-our-first-look-at-the-condo-tower-headed-for-17th-and-guadalupe/?agent=caitlyn@towers.net

Feels like Austin already has like 3 towers that look just like that. Architects out here just doing CTRL+C, CTRL+V.

[DalTxHornFan 3,097]

99 Trinity Site Faces Foreclosure

Does anybody else ever wonder if World Class Capital, et al. is all smoke and mirrors?

https://austin.towers.net/99-trinity-site-faces-foreclosure/?fbclid=IwAR3Gc9a55VlaEsyipjWPKzxFf8mc8aXm25Om8TwuiWSj0LOwESmLlcvO-tg

[Guest Lobo]

This is where the white building is set off Chavez, right?   The one that looks like it musta been the exterior of the warehouse in “Reservoir Dogs”?

appropriate given the fact somebody on the inside is gonna give somebody up.  

[Chet Steadman 940]

3 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

99 Trinity Site Faces Foreclosure

Does anybody else ever wonder if World Class Capital, et al. is all smoke and mirrors?

 

Yes.

[3adays 454]

Something is definitely not right with them. 

[Guest Lobo]

Some people lack vision. 

[Longhorn Al 440]

He's just a speculator.  He's not really trying to develop anything.

[DalTxHornFan 3,097]

No love for World Class, et al. here either:

 

[CleverNickname 1,308]

FWIW the gov signed the bill to (be able to) sell the Hobby building (SB 1349). 

[Larry T. Spider 1,746]

2 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:

FWIW the gov signed the bill to (be able to) sell the Hobby building (SB 1349). 

Worst building in dt Austin. 

[Dbeasy 15,040]

99 Trinity Site Faces Foreclosure

Does anybody else ever wonder if World Class Capital, et al. is all smoke and mirrors?
https://austin.towers.net/99-trinity-site-faces-foreclosure/?fbclid=IwAR3Gc9a55VlaEsyipjWPKzxFf8mc8aXm25Om8TwuiWSj0LOwESmLlcvO-tg

There is something not right there with WC.

[J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. 1,084]

13 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

No love for World Class, et al. here either:

 

None here, either. Fuck them for driving Encore Records out of business.

[MAUFRAIS 6,615]

Their name is stupid and their banners are stupid

[demos 3,002]

Worst building in dt Austin. 

Well, the rats love it. Ever think of them? No, you don’t think of the lowly rat.

[MAUFRAIS 6,615]

But where are all those rats gonna go?