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[KevinFromTexas]

There's a new rendering out for the Seaholm Plaza Hotel. This 22-story hotel/condo tower will join the redevelopment of the old Seaholm Power Plant. The design will mimic the art-deco style of the power plant which was built in the late 40s.

http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/realestate/02/01/1seaholm.html

REAL ESTATE
Austin nearer to transforming Seaholm
City to get look at plans for $100 million redevelopment while negotiating final public-private deal.

By Shonda Novak
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Developers are expected to roll out today their vision for a mixed-use project that would transform the former Seaholm Power Plant into shops, offices, a hotel and condominiums by 2009.

The Austin City Council will get its first look at a new rendering of the project, which features a modern design while retaining the distinctive Art Deco building and its five signature smokestacks.

The decommissioned 1940s plant sits on about 8 acres along West Cesar Chavez Street overlooking Town Lake.

An adjacent 22-story residential/hotel tower and two-story office building also would have a modern design but with an Art Deco flavor.

[Swede]

"Photobucket Bandwidth Exceeded" :(

Sounds good tho (especially the quasi-Swedish name) :)

[NYC2ATX]

I most excited about the fact that this new hotel wont have a hilton, hyatt, or westin logo on top of it. It's nice that Austin will have another hotel that's uniquely that city, like the Driskill. :hmmm:

[KevinFromTexas]

Here's the rendering. I really like the design. So far it's one of my favorites of all the proposed buildings. This would be the view of it from the west/southwest.
http://www.seaholm.info/graphics/aerialnew.jpg

[sakyle04]

The beauty of Seaholm is that it will add some height variances and material interest to DT Austin.

I've lived in San Antonio most of my life, with 4 1/2 years in Austin and 1 year in Johannesburg, South Africa. What makes San Antonio's DT is the base scale of 6-8 stories in the dense areas of DT. Austin always struck me as artificial just because of the number of vacant lots and 1-2 story buildings between skyscrapers. Now, the infill process will help to change that. Seaholm will add height, yes, but more importantly (I think) it will add some density and diversity. I also think it will offer a fuller, neighborhood feel. (And I don't mean neighborhood like suburb - more like looking down Park Ave in Manhattan and seeing 6-12 stories lining the street...)

Very cool for Austin. And maybe a nice blueprint for San Antonio and the Pearl Brewery site. :rolleyes:

[AustinSkyscrapers]

Here's the rendering. I really like the design. So far it's one of my favorites of all the proposed buildings. This would be the view of it from the west/southwest.
http://www.seaholm.info/graphics/aerialnew.jpg

Oh boy it's sure a nice design. But, is it going to be built? I want it to.

[Thymant]

Very interesting concept.

[AustinSkyscrapers]

Very interesting concept.

Interesting indeed, my friend

[Marquita]

Marquita Jensen's thoughts:
Despite the picture, I cannot see a hotel matching well with a power plant! Industrial settings are too, well rough and uncaring about aesthetics for a hotel. I do hope they prove me wrong.


Marquita Jensen
click here (www.classmates.com/directory/public/memberprofile/list.htm?regId=8693080776)

[Thymant]

:previous: Their planning to renovate the power plant and add retail inside so it most likley it will look much more alive than the image that you see above.

[Urbannizer]

Update:

At the former Seaholm Power Plant, a mixed-use project is planned that would include a 180-room hotel. Jeff Trigger and his La Corsha Hospitality Group will oversee the construction, management and operations of the hotel, but work may not start until next year, Trigger said.

“Currently, neither we nor the debt financing market are ready to begin construction of the high-rise building where the hotel, office and residential uses will be housed. We hope next year when we are ready, the financing will be as well,” said Trigger, former managing director of the Driskill Hotel.


http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/realestate/entries/2009/09/09/starwood_hotel_proposed_at_fif.html

[Urbannizer]

Looks like they have a website (http://www.seaholm.info/index.html) too.

[migol24]

Looks like they have a website (http://www.seaholm.info/index.html) too.on one of the photos shown from the slides in that link there's one taken back then after it was built. one of the pipes says "austin the friendly city" i'm always hearing people visiting from newyork, los angeles, or other places refer to austin as having very friendly people. i've just never heard of austin as the "friendly city" but i think it certainly would live up to it.

[KevinFromTexas]

Found this back in March.

Seaholm Hotel & Condos. It looks like it's around 300 feet tall or so and 25 or 26 floors.

http://www.seaholm.info/graphics/aerial%20feb11.jpg
http://www.seaholm.info/

[KevinFromTexas]

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/print-edition/2011/07/29/dirt-may-turn-at-seaholm-site-next-year.html

Dirt may turn at Seaholm site next year

Mix of uses still in air; nearby land to change
Austin Business Journal - by Cody Lyon , ABJ Staff
Date: Friday, July 29, 2011, 5:00am CDT - Last Modified: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 3:20pm CDT

Plans for two massive mixed-use projects and a bigger main public library are getting firmer and smaller it seems, providing more clarity to a string of projects that promise to reinvent the southwest corner of downtown Austin.

The Seaholm power plant redevelopment can proceed now that a major obstacle was removed, said John Rosato, a principal at Southwest Strategies Group and the spinoff it established for the project, Seaholm Power LLC. Now that Union Pacific Corp . agreed to release an easement of less than 1 acre to the city, Rosato’s team hopes to complete its site plan with the city ...

[The ATX]

Here'e the CCIM presentation from developers with an updated rendering, but no other significant info.
http://www.ccimtexas.com/images/website243/john_rosato_presentation_12012.pdf

[wwmiv]

Here'e the CCIM presentation from developers with an updated rendering, nut no other significant info.
http://www.ccimtexas.com/images/website243/john_rosato_presentation_12012.pdf

Looks slightly taller than 300 feet now. Maybe 320?

[SecretAgentMan]

The title of this post needs to be changed. There is no longer a hotel, and it is more than 25 floors.

[wwmiv]

The title of this post needs to be changed. There is no longer a hotel, and it is more than 25 floors.

I still only count 25 floors on that new rendering, but some of the floors seem to be taller. It is now a residential tower though, which is much better. Residential will tie in better with the retail component than a hotel would.

[KevinFromTexas]

The title of this post needs to be changed. There is no longer a hotel, and it is more than 25 floors.

So will the tower be apartments or condos now? I counted 28 floors in the rendering, and maybe one more (trees covered it).

[KevinFromTexas]

It seems they're still working on designs. This has to be the 4th design I've seen for the tower at Seaholm, and each time it's gotten taller.

Southwest
http://www.seaholm.info/graphics/seaholmoverview.png
Seaholm Power LLC
http://seaholm.info/

Southeast
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b234/KevinFromTexas/Austin%20Renderings/Image1-3.jpg

Northwest
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b234/KevinFromTexas/Austin%20Renderings/Image2-2.jpg

More renderings

West/Southwest

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b234/KevinFromTexas/Austin%20Renderings/Image3-3.jpg


Northwest plaza/base

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b234/KevinFromTexas/Austin%20Renderings/Image4-3.jpg


Southwest plaza/base

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b234/KevinFromTexas/Austin%20Renderings/Image6-3.jpg


Southeast plaza/base

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b234/KevinFromTexas/Austin%20Renderings/Image5-3.jpg

[KevinFromTexas]

I was hoping that the power plant main building would be for a more public use such as the retail development they suggested originally. Having it be commercial office space is kind of disappointing.

This says they're wanting to break ground on new construction in July, which I guess also includes the 28-story apartment tower.

http://www.statesman.com/business/real-estate/council-to-weigh-allowing-seaholm-plant-to-be-2393164.html?viewAsSinglePage=true

Council to weigh allowing Seaholm plant to be used for office space

By Sarah Coppola and Shonda Novak
Published: 10:32 p.m. Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The Austin City Council on Thursday will consider significant changes to a plan to redevelop the Seaholm Power Plant including potentially allowing the historical building to be used for office space for a local company.

The revisions are being requested because Seaholm Power LLC, the team working to redevelop the site, is in "very serious negotiations" to lease the bulk of the decommissioned power plant to a local business, said John Rosato, managing partner for Seaholm Power LLC. Rosato declined to name the company.

In another change to its 2008 redevelopment deal with the city, the developer is asking the council to allow it to build apartments instead of condos, based on a heightened demand for rental housing downtown, where occupancy is nearing record levels.

[KevinFromTexas]

Um, boo? I'm not really liking the idea of commercial office space in the old building. It should have had a more public use. And it's a shame that a company looking for 115,000 square feet didn't take space in an existing office tower. I would have liked to see them move into one of the office towers, or hold out for Cousins' planned Colorado & 3rd project.

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/council-oks-offices-at-iconic-seaholm-plant-2396062.html?viewAsSinglePage=true

Council OKs offices at iconic Seaholm plant

By Sarah Coppola
Published: 10:04 p.m. Thursday, June 7, 2012

The Austin City Council OK'd changes Thursday to a 2008 redevelopment deal for the old Seaholm Power Plant, allowing developers to lease most of the iconic downtown building to a local company to use as office space for as long as 20 years.

Thanks to details added to the deal Thursday at the urging of Council Member Laura Morrison, parts of the 117,000-square-foot plant will still be open to the public. The developers will have to include:

■ 1,000 square feet on the ground floor for a publicly accessible display of the site's history and a coffee shop, juice bar or other public use;

■ 5,000 square feet for a restaurant, part of which overlooks the plant's grand turbine hall;

■ 1,000 square feet for a ground-floor art gallery managed by the City of Austin.

[BevoLJ]

I can't really fault any company for jumping at that opportunity. It is a huge opportunity to have an office in an very cool spot.

I agree though, that I would have much rather seen them go elsewhere. Into one of the existing buildings or to have agreed to space in a new building that needs to secure financing.

[wwmiv]

I think we got a really nice compromise, so let's not look a gift horse in the mouth shall we?

[wwmiv]

By the way, one major reason why I think they pushed - and were successful at pushing - for office space instead of retail was that they were the first of the major redevelopments in this quadrant of downtown and that the parcel is relatively isolated from the rest of the downtown shopping district and is not directly connected by street to any other major shopping destination yet. It would have been a major drag on the development until second street was extended with the Green development and was probably economically untenable because of that. Office just makes sense if this development was to move forward first. Retail would have made more sense if they were proceeding at the same time as or after Green.

[KevinFromTexas]

http://www.statesman.com/business/real-estate/downtowns-skyline-poised-for-a-remake-2397927.html?viewAsSinglePage=true

Downtown's skyline poised for a remake

By Shonda Novak
Updated: 12:07 a.m. Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Published: 10:45 p.m. Monday, June 11, 2012

Seaholm Power Plant redevelopment

Developer: Seaholm Power LLC

Location: West Cesar Chavez Street

Stories: 28 in proposed apartment tower, plus a low-rise retail-office building and restored Seaholm structure

Capacity: 294 apartments, plus 130,00 square feet of office space and 50,000 square feet of retail and restaurants

Projected start: Late July

Projected completion: 2014

Cost: Undetermined

[KevinFromTexas]

I got an email back today from someone with the City of Austin, he told me the apartment tower will be 314 feet tall. I'm asking him if he can send me the building elevation from the site plan elevation. He didn't say to what point on the building that height is. It could be slightly taller. There's also a mechanical penthouse/stair tower above the main roof.

[ahealy]

Any word on the "problem" with the commission board regarding seaholm? Is this ever going to happen :shrug:

[KevinFromTexas]

I'm wanting to get a more clear height from them, main roof height vs mechanical penthouse, so I'll ask them that tomorrow in my email. I haven't found much information about it on the city's planning review database, so who knows. Most of the files I've seen have had to do with demolition and clean up of the site, and very little about actual new construction plans. But, the fact that they did respond to me makes me feel confident that it will happen. Developers typically clam up about their projects when they're dead.

[KevinFromTexas]

http://www.statesman.com/business/evolution-continues-for-austins-skyline-2453944.html?viewAsSinglePage=true

Evolution continues for Austin's skyline

By Shonda Novak
Published: 10:13 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012

6. Seaholm Power Plant redevelopment

Developer: Seaholm Power LLC

Location: West Cesar Chavez Street

Stories: 28 in proposed apartment tower, plus a low-rise retail/office building and restored Seaholm structure

Units: 294 apartments; 130,00 square feet of office space; 50,000 feet of retail, restaurants

Projected start: late 2012

Projected completion: 2014

Cost: Undisclosed

[ahealy]

So I heard from a lil' birdie that Seaholm will begin official groundbreaking next month.

[wwmiv]

So I heard from a lil' birdie that Seaholm will begin official groundbreaking next month.

Thank God.

[dc_denizen]

awesome news!

[ahealy]

Still, I won't believe it til' I look out my window and see it! This time it seems like it's gonna happen.

[KevinFromTexas]

They applied for a tower crane permit back in October.

https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=10839508

In 2007, there was this file which says the main tower would be 393 feet tall. They were asking for a rezoning permit that would allow it to go from 120 feet to 393 feet. The last height I heard was 314 feet to the main roof. The final height is probably around 320/330 feet.
https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=10064150

[Global]

It seems Trader Joe's will open it second Austin location at Seaholm in 2014 after, according to the Statesman. So maybe the 'rumors' that construction will begin are true?

The express lane …

Trader Joe’s, a specialty grocer, will make its Austin debut this fall in the Shops at Mira Vista shopping center in Rollingwood. A second Trader Joe’s will follow in early 2014 at the Seaholm development in downtown Austin. Read our story at http://bit.ly/10VdOP7

http://www.statesman.com/news/business/dinges-7-eleven-expanding-central-texas-presence/nWydR/

[KevinFromTexas]

This also says Trader Joe's, a specialty retail grocer, will occupy a new lowrise retail building. In addition to that and the 117,000 square feet of office space in the original power plant building, will be a 30-story apartment tower to be delivered in 2015.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/real-estate/2013/04/seaholm-project-groundbreaking-is.html?page=all

Apr 11, 2013, 2:52pm CDT
Seaholm project groundbreaking is imminent

Jan Buchholz
Staff Writer-
Austin Business Journal

The long wait for the Seaholm Power Plant project to begin construction appears to be over. Developer Southwest Strategies Group Inc. — which formed Seaholm Power Development LLC to oversee the office-residential-retail project — confirmed Thursday afternoon that the associated real estate transactions with the city of Austin will close Friday or Monday at the latest.

General contractor FlintCo LLC is on site — the power plant is in the southwest portion of downtown near Cesar Chavez Street and North Lamar Boulevard — and prepared to start work immediately, said John Rosato, managing partner of Seaholm Power Development.

Most of the 117,000-square-foot power plant will be leased to one office tenant. Rosato did not reveal who is planning to take the space but said the negotiations are concluding. Work will begin quickly to retrofit that space from a utility plant to office space.

The final component of the Seaholm project will be a 30-story apartment tower, which will be delivered in mid-2015, Rosato said.

[KevinFromTexas]

This uses a different rendering than the Business Journal article, which I think was one from earlier in the project's history. This one seems to be the current one and matches those I posted above.


http://www.statesman.com/news/business/seaholm-redevelopment-ready-to-break-ground-at-las/nXMzM/

Posted: 6:55 p.m. Monday, April 15, 2013
Seaholm redevelopment ready to break ground at last

By Shonda Novak
American-Statesman Staff

It’s been several years coming, but redevelopment work is set to begin on Austin’s former Seaholm Power Plant site, with plans calling for a $100 million mixed-use project that will reinvigorate the area and add millions to the city’s tax base over coming decades.

The project on downtown’s western edge will include a 30-story tower with 309 apartments, a two-story building with a Trader Joe’s store, plus other retail, office and restaurant space.

The city is making a $13.6 million investment in street extensions and improvements, a public plaza and the main Seaholm building, said Fred Evins, the city’s project manager for the Seaholm redevelopment. The city will capture property and sales tax generated from Seaholm’s redevelopment to pay off the debt for its share of the investment.

[darrell_westcott]

These are the most up to date renderings:
http://www.seaholm.info/html/renderings.html

[KevinFromTexas]

The site plan was approved and released on the city's website. The elevations show the Seaholm condo tower as 341 feet 4 inches to the mechanical penthouse roof and 320 feet 10 inches to the main roof. The top floor height is 308 feet 10 inches. And it has 30 floors.

The elevations are files 035 and 036.

https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=10971077

If this building were complete today it would be Austin's 15th tallest building.

This project has gone through several changes. The "tower" was first planned as a 10-story hotel and then switched to apartments. Now since there is a shortage of condos in downtown, the project has switched to condos. They're doing the site prep work now.

[KevinFromTexas]

Crane is up!

http://i.imgur.com/rQ8qxot.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/iP4FnwA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/g1GTY4v.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/K0F5Uu1.jpg

[lzppjb]

They have started pouring concrete and putting up their first foundational walls. This thread will soon be making the jump to the under construction board.

[KevinFromTexas]

http://i.imgur.com/pFnseGP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/W1aKC2l.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/4YSar1j.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/TVpm7pY.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/oYuhWXA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/m73qYvm.jpg

[KevinFromTexas]

Yellow crane in the center.

http://i.imgur.com/3nCMo1Q.jpg

[Urbannizer]

Today by me.

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5557/15052917967_c0825e0b33_b.jpg

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[corvairkeith]

Today.

http://i.imgur.com/DUgbr8g.jpg

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[KevinFromTexas]

Nice pics. This weather is perfect for photos.

I've always thought the skyline looks a little awkward from the pedestrian bridge looking over to 360. This building and whatever happens on the courthouse block should help to balance it out.

[KevinFromTexas]

On the left.

https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/10847496_893078717380192_5240670465211952200_o.jpg

[Clev]

Great picture, Kevin. Those two buildings will really help connect the skyline.

[KevinFromTexas]

(Left)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t31.0-8/1400213_836155556421046_4963088322836937381_o.jpg
Over Austin - https://www.facebook.com/overaustin/photos/a.789906511045951.1073741827.789903507712918/836155556421046/?type=1&theater

[Urbannizer]

3/10, glass being installed.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8709/16780728041_f75c6ac8d6_h.jpg

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[KevinFromTexas]

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[KevinFromTexas]

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[mrsmartman]

Is Lady Bird Lake flooded?

[The ATX]

Is Lady Bird Lake flooded?

It was a little, but the floodgates are opened during high water to prevent it from getting too bad.

[Urbannizer]

6/10

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[Urbannizer]

7/5

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[Sic'EmBears]

From my Photobucket this past weekend:

Seaholm Residences

http://i628.photobucket.com/albums/uu5/BCB_01/IMG_5119.jpg (http://s628.photobucket.com/user/BCB_01/media/IMG_5119.jpg.html)

[Sic'EmBears]

Edit

[The ATX]

That's actually Northshore apartments (near Seaholm Residences.) But excellent photos are always appreciated.:tup:

[Sic'EmBears]

That's actually Northshore apartments (near Seaholm Residences.) But excellent photos are always appreciated.:tup:

Oops. The nautical names through me off.

[Urbannizer]

Complete

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1561/25726054994_37c1d0466c_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/FcjKSj)A different view of the city (https://flic.kr/p/FcjKSj) by Prashant Ranganath (https://www.flickr.com/photos/138202784@N03/), on Flickr

[wwmiv]

Ya know... it's actually a pretty beautiful building as depicted in this photograph. I do wish the parking garage were more elaborately disguised, though.