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It didn’t shock me that Independence Fine Foods closed down.  Their food was great but the hours were lame.  They closed at 8:30pm every night and were not open on Sundays. Maybe Chick-fil-A can pull that shit but when you’re a mom and pop restaurant you can’t be shutting out your customers like that.  I can’t count the times I drove past that place and took my business elsewhere when they were closed and I was hungry for good food. 

 I had a couple beers at South Austin Beer Garden last night.  They aren’t officially open yet they were having the employees and friends in last night. It kind of looked open from the road so we stopped in.  The owner told us the situation but he invited us in for a couple rounds. Seems like good people there. 

 The inside is tiny. It’s almost exclusively outdoor seating. There’s a second bar behind the building that you cannot see from the road, covered and outdoor.   There’s also a huge outdoor area behind the building. Big enough you could fit 100 picnic tables and if you wanted to.  They have a lot of taps and a few craft cocktails.  I’ll be back when they open officially. The owner said that would be within the next few days hopefully.  He’s just waiting on the city inspector to check his retention pond. 

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Genie Car Wash on South Lamar will be replaced by 

 
 
 
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a mixed-use project planned by developer Ardent Residential will build 138,780 square feet of office space, along with 309 apartment units, in two separate buildings on a land assembly including 1303, 1311, and 1401 South Lamar Boulevard.

 

https://austin.towers.net/apartments-and-offices-make-good-neighbors-for-a-growing-south-lamar

I'm going to miss that sign.

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Article about Zoho Corp’s move to Texas 71:

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When Zoho Corp. announced earlier this month that it was moving its headquarters to a campus along Texas 71 in eastern Travis County, fortune smiled on Bastrop.

Economic development experts have forecast that the Texas 71 corridor between Austin and Bastrop will be the next land of opportunity for business, and when Zoho Corp. decided to relocate to the 375-acre property along the highway, the forecasts were confirmed, said Bastrop Economic Development Corporation director Mike Kamerlander.

“We’re positioning Bastrop as the next corridor of growth for Austin,” Kamerlander said. “Zoho Corp’s location on Highway 71 towards Bastrop is a really good indicator that that (projection) is accurate.”

The California-based software company has plans to build a 100,000-square-foot building near the intersection of Kellam Road and Texas 71, about 5 miles east of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and about three miles west of the Bastrop County line.

The building, which is expected to open in 2021, will eventually house 500 employees hired over the next several years. Some of those employees, Kamerlander said, are expected to find housing in Bastrop and Bastrop County rather than face Austin’s higher housing prices.

Founded in India in 1996 by CEO Sridhar Vembu, the business software company offers email, analytics, accounting and IT management and other business services. It employs more than 7,000 workers in 12 offices across the globe, including in India, China, Japan and Mexico.

Kamerlander said that he expects the move to spur a “clustering” effect in the area, which could spark other companies to locate in the corridor into Bastrop County and the city of Bastrop.

“Other companies like them, or other companies that support Zoho’s operations look to this and say, ‘Zoho said it works for them, we know it’s going to work for us too,’” Kamerlander said. “That leads to clustering and it gets us over the hurdle of trying to market our location as a good place to do business. ... We can point to this as a proven place to do business.”

The Zoho Corp. campus is not the only major development project slated for the Bastrop-Travis County area. Velocity Crossing was approved by the Austin City Council in 2016 to be built near the Texas 130 and Texas 71 intersection and will feature about 4.5 million square feet of retail, restaurant, office and apartment space. It will be a welcome addition to the growing populations along the stretch of Texas 71 between Austin and Bastrop, which has long been considered a food and amenity desert since subdivisions began cropping up in the area. H-E-B, for instance, has secured 17.2 acres of the property.

The Texas Department of Transportation’s ongoing improvements on Texas 71 will also make the region more attractive to developers and businesses for its ease of access to the airport, Interstate 35 and downtown Austin.

The transportation department already has a $48 million plan to build overpasses at Kellam Road, where the Zoho project will be located, and Ross Road. Construction is set to begin as soon as this fall and be completed by summer 2021.

Another $35 million project will create an overpass bridge on Texas 71 at FM 1209 in Wyldwood and will be the final project that will accomplish TxDOT’s ultimate goal of eliminating all stoplights along Texas 71 between Austin and Bastrop. 

“We have the land availability from Austin to Bastrop along 71, and then even off FM 969, that allows for these larger corporate campuses to locate, not only from available greenfield space but also an affordability aspect too,” Kamerlander said. “There’s very few other places in the Austin region where you can buy 335 acres like Zoho did at an affordable rate.”

 

"Economic development experts have forecast that the Texas 71 corridor between Austin and Bastrop will be the next land of opportunity for business..."

That's really interesting. One concept for Cap Metro's Blue line would be it stoping by the airport at a new ground transport facility near 71 instead of following riverside and tunneling under the west runway to connect to the terminal area directly. This would allow the transit line to continue further east in the future. 

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On 4/4/2019 at 1:54 PM, hayden_horn said:

 

it's like they saw how effective the two lane turn concept as employed at slaughter and manchaca and decided that needed to be everywhere. 

but taking a lane away on an already congested road (wait till the new heb opens at slaughter and 35 to really drive hime the fuckery of slaughter near southpark) is beyond fucking stupid. they may need to just take out the median at some point.

 

There is an updated design that makes more sense given the recent work at S. 1st with the two turn lanes. The reason why they did the median work now is because the intersection was on a list of dangerous intersections which got separate money. They can't re-add the 3rd straight lane now because it requires shifting the sidewalk and bike lane along the entire corridor which has to take into account a lot of shit like utilities and requires getting more ROW from private property which is a process. That will be a part of the corridor work that should be going from pre-engineering to full design tomorrow.

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On 4/17/2019 at 11:42 AM, The Golden Hat said:

New cocktail bar from the guys who run Hopfields. Good cocktails, good food truck, good patio. Staff is cool. Pretty quiet, laidback place. Only been open a couple weeks. The last bar there was called Red Shed

Appreciate the heads-up, I'm close to that and wondered what would replace Red Shed.

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HEB @ Congress & Oltorf will be rebuilt.

https://www.austin360.com/news/20190528/h-e-b-is-tearing-down-one-of-austins-busiest-stores-but-it-will-come-back-bigger-than-ever?template=ampart&__twitter_impression=true

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The working design for the new H-E-B includes more than 110,000 square-feet of grocery space, as well as the company's first beer garden, a stage for live music and a 12-vendor food hall.

The current store has about 550 parking spaces, but two stories of underground parking will expand that number to more than 850, including designated curbside pick-up and a drive-through pharmacy.

 

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Maybe 300 at HEB and 250 across at the old strip center caddie-corner.  No way in the world that single lot at HEB has 550 spots.  Even with that wrap-around to the SW.  

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I wonder if Ben White even had a home.

So far South Congress. Those “Public” condos went up last yearish. Just saw this banner a block or two south on the same side
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Settlers Village or whatever the place is called closer to Stassney on the west side. Looks like probably condos going up across the road as well? Newish town home development near Dittmar and one where wooden frames have started to go up a tad further north (connecting Meadow Lea to Congress).

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Been using SH45 SW quite a bit going to & from San Antonio & to get my boy to & from Manchaca (Manshack) for baseball practice. Gotta say it's pretty nice. It's weird though that it still doesn't show up on google maps or in their navigation routing. Anyone know why, or how long it usually takes for that to happen?

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That Statesman site is avoiding one really fun reality---Riverside is one lane in/out to the West.   The egress on that shitshow is the reason we can't put an arena or anything there.

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2 hours ago, Lobo said:

That Statesman site is avoiding one really fun reality---Riverside is one lane in/out to the West.   The egress on that shitshow is the reason we can't put an arena or anything there.

True.  But the arena situation is working out.  New indoor arena on campus and soccer stadium at Domain are good.  Overtime, soccer is going to be mostly attended by suburbans in CP, Leander, etc... 

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A rail line that stops under Ben White, just yards away from the underpass homeless camp?  Uh, I'll bite.  Why do we need that?  And there's parking for what?  Maybe 75 cars?  How does that help?  

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2 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

What's with the sorta Nazi symbol on the front?

Developers, and eventual tenants, used to pay for design and aesthetics in commercial real estate in this country.  And now, people get their inspiration from Sam's Club.  

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Just drove down the farthest bit of Congress towards Southpark Meadows.  That HEB is starting to take form.

That whole area is going to be a damned Tijuana donkey show. Slaughter east of Manchaca is already gambling with your life with the narrow lanes and distracted/texting drivers. At least the HEB will have a bbq restaurant though.

 

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Going in where Jovita's was at.

Four-story apartment building, modern, flat roof, glass walls facing outward from untis, separated by weathered steel walls and panels

The South First Street property that was home to the wildly popular (and now infamous) restaurant and bar Jovita’s will be developed for a four-story, multifamily building, the Austin Business Journal reported Thursday.

The new building at 1613 and 1615 South First Street will have 41 to 44 apartment units and 8,000 to 10,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor. Austin-based Chameleon Companies is developing the property, and local firm Bercy Chen Studio—known for its distinctive buildings, which often involve the use of weathering steel—is the designer.

Jovita’s, which opened in 1992, was a Tex-Mex and live-music mainstay on South First Street that first became well-known for hosting country music legend Don Walser’s weekly gigs. It closed in 2012 after federal law enforcement raided the establishment to bust a heroin ring, the Austin American-Statesman reported. Owner Amado “Mayo” Pardo died before his trial in 2013, leaving the property ownership in question.

Rodriguez-controlled Chingon International bought the old Jovita’s property in 2016. Chingon Digital, which has the same mailing address as Chingon International, is listed as the owner of the neighboring lot at 1613 S. First Street, ABJ reports; it acquired the property in 2014.

Rodriguez (El Mariachi, Spy Kids, Sin City, Machete), a San Antonio native and longtime Austinite, is known for his support for of local enterprise, especially music and filmmaking. According to the Journal, he helped Fresa’s Chicken Al Carbon, located next to the new project, get off the ground.

 

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