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This project appears to be lying on the side of the road and not breathing. The site plan application expired in May. This was the first Austin Cambria Hotel project to have a site plan filed, but there have been three others filed since then, and those appear to be moving forward. The site plan for the adjacent Rainey St. Hotel (formerly Kimber Modern) expired last December. So the fledgling Hotel Row lineup of Homewood Suites, Rainey Street and Cambria won't be happening. Too bad Homewood Suites happened though.
Funny, I was just googling this project earlier this week. FWIW, Choice Hotels still lists Austin as a prime expansion destination for Cambria in press releases, but there're no details floating around in the trade papers that I can find.
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Old Posted Jan 11, 2019, 4:43 PM
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This one just came back to life. A new site plan was filed today. The hotel row on the I-35 frontage road and East Ave. is still alive: Homewood Suites, Fairfield Inn, Cambria Hotel, Ladybird Hotel

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https://abc.austintexas.gov/web/perm...pertyrsn=93026
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Towers has coverage and couple of massings.

https://austin.towers.net/on-rainey-...from-the-dead/



This cluster is really interesting to me. Not sure why the it's so dense with hotel-only development, and hotels within a specific quality band, to boot. Something seems to be driving this type of thing but I'll be danged if I know what.
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I've always assumed that Rainey would turn into a neighborhood for mostly partying and for people to live there who don't mind all the buzz. I mean, there are actually people who would love to live downtown for that very reason so that they wouldn't have to take a cab, uber/lyft or transit there every time they go.

I've also assumed that the hotels that have sprung up there are marketing to the same types of people, who when they travel for business, love to party. This neighborhood actually is strategically located close enough to the convention center to make that convenient.
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The site plan was posted for AULCC. It's bland as hell and only 136' tall.


ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...es_PLAN_02.pdf
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That's also showing only 13 floors. The 14th level is the main roof.
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Towers found a couple renderings. That small site between this project and the Homewood Suites is the Fairfield Inn site.



https://austin.towers.net/two-new-ho...reet-district/
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Wow. That's going to be quite a wall of hotels -- esp if you're squeezing a Fairfield in between there.

Still. It's hard to mask how crappy a street East is in that block or so. Highway noise and views, the new power substation -- not the highest peace-of-mind vector in the city, TBH.
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I don't hate it. Of course, almost anything would be preferable to the Homewood Suites next to it.
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Its very symmetrical and...smooth. The vertical black structure the sign is attached to is a nice feature, and the rooftop thingy. It will definitely make the Homeward Suites look worse by comparison, just like when someone, anyone parks next to my beat up car making it look worse.
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It took a while. But the site plan was approved last week.

https://abc.austintexas.gov/web/perm...pertyrsn=93026


EDIT: This may have gained two floors based on the site plan permit. But we won't know for sure until the approved elevations are released.
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The elevations (Page 26) were added to the approved site plan. It did gain some height. The west elevation is about 175' (up from 136') and it went from 13 to 15-stories.

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The base of the hotel looks fine, but I assume based on the off-white in the rendering, that the bulk of the mass in this hotel will be poverty siding?
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The base of the hotel looks fine, but I assume based on the off-white in the rendering, that the bulk of the mass in this hotel will be poverty siding?
Looks like stucco (idk if that's what "poverty siding" refers to here - i usually think of hardieplank as "poverty siding") but if the renderings are accurate then at least it won't have ugly control joints all over like at Homewood Suites.
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I was surprised to see anything related to this project starting. But they filed the tower crane plan for AULCC with a start date of 06/01/20.


ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/.../200416/PLANS/
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Travel will probably have rebounded by the time any major tower would be done. Even this little 15-story building will probably take around two years to fully open. Besides, if the financing was already in place, then might as well.
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Travel will probably have rebounded by the time any major tower would be done. Even this little 15-story building will probably take around two years to fully open. Besides, if the financing was already in place, then might as well.
That's the key for any project breaking ground anytime soon: "...if the financing was already in place."
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The licensing permit for the tower crane was filed about a week ago. They must have gotten financing before the Pandemic because this permit isn't typically filed unless a project is a go.

https://abc.austintexas.gov/public-s...pertyrsn=93026
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FAA permit for the hotel - 174 feet.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...4592485&row=14

FAA permit for the crane - 237 feet.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...4606003&row=15
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Kevin I missed your update for this one. I'm actually amazed it's still going forward. I felt like this would've been one of the first to lose funding. Still chugging forward, I guess.
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