HomeDiagramsDatabaseMapsForum About
     

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > United States > Texas & Southcentral > Austin


Reply

 
Thread Tools Display Modes
     
     
  #81  
Old Posted Nov 6, 2018, 12:53 AM
AustinGoesVertical AustinGoesVertical is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 554
This site was indeed one of the ones submitted in Austin’s proposal.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #82  
Old Posted Nov 6, 2018, 1:01 AM
N90 N90 is offline
Voice of the Modern World
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 1,094
This is frankly a better site than Broadmoor imo
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #83  
Old Posted Nov 6, 2018, 1:10 AM
The ATX's Avatar
The ATX The ATX is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Where the lights are much brighter
Posts: 12,016
There were over 50 sites in Austin's HQ2 proposal. We know nothing about most of them. Project Catalyst is a long term uphill zoning project as is the Southshore/Statesman site. Broadmoor is more or less shovel ready and seems like a more likely location even though I would prefer the other ones. The Robinson Ranch and the soon to be former 3M campus on FM 2222 with 1,000,000 sq ft of office ready space seem like logical choices as well.
__________________
Follow The ATX on X:
https://twitter.com/TheATX1

Things will be great when you're downtown.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #84  
Old Posted Nov 6, 2018, 1:37 AM
urbancore urbancore is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Zilker
Posts: 1,508
Quote:
Originally Posted by The ATX View Post
There were over 50 sites in Austin's HQ2 proposal. We know nothing about most of them. Project Catalyst is a long term uphill zoning project as is the Southshore/Statesman site. Broadmoor is more or less shovel ready and seems like a more likely location even though I would prefer the other ones. The Robinson Ranch and the soon to be former 3M campus on FM 2222 with 1,000,000 sq ft of office ready space seem like logical choices as well.
Sure, that makes sense. But they don’t need everything from the jump. Seems to me, based on the speed of the last 5 years, we could develop Catalyst and/or Statesman site in the next 5 years. The Statesman site has been talked about for 10 years already. I bet they could build and occupy at least one building within 3 years at the Statesman.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #85  
Old Posted Nov 6, 2018, 2:59 AM
Jdawgboy's Avatar
Jdawgboy Jdawgboy is offline
Representing the ATX!!!
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Austin
Posts: 5,732
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dcbrickley View Post
Sure, that makes sense. But they don’t need everything from the jump. Seems to me, based on the speed of the last 5 years, we could develop Catalyst and/or Statesman site in the next 5 years. The Statesman site has been talked about for 10 years already. I bet they could build and occupy at least one building within 3 years at the Statesman.
Assuming Austin is chosen, both the South Shore District and South Shore Central make better choices due the very centralized location situated between Downtown and the airport. The urban aspect is already in place and the area will only densify going forward.

Robinson Ranch and 3M are way too far out IMO. Broadmore at least is within the city.
__________________
"GOOD TIMES!!!" Jerri Blank (Strangers With Candy)
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #86  
Old Posted Nov 6, 2018, 6:03 AM
chinchaaa chinchaaa is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 658
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jdawgboy View Post
Assuming Austin is chosen, both the South Shore District and South Shore Central make better choices due the very centralized location situated between Downtown and the airport. The urban aspect is already in place and the area will only densify going forward.

Robinson Ranch and 3M are way too far out IMO. Broadmore at least is within the city.
I agree. Amazon is going for a coolness factor. The Domain ain’t it, chief. I’ll be shocked if they’re not downtown or just south of the river.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #87  
Old Posted Nov 6, 2018, 5:25 PM
_Matt _Matt is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 400
In the last CapMetro update, the new "Pleasant Valley" Navy line was added which provides connectivity N-S along the east side to Riverside plus the Catalyst site. This would provide direct transit access from Catalyst to many residential areas terminating at Mueller.

The presentation indicates this was added "to address equity concerns expressed by the community and the City of Austin".

http://capmetrotx.iqm2.com/Citizens/...MeetingID=1736 (pdf link)
Slide 16-17
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #88  
Old Posted Nov 6, 2018, 9:44 PM
AusTxDevelopment AusTxDevelopment is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 808
There is a team from Amazon in Austin this week looking at Southeast "creative" office locations, but not very big. They only want about 40,000 square feet. They are also looking at warehouse sites in Round Rock and Georgetown to build on.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #89  
Old Posted Nov 6, 2018, 9:45 PM
The ATX's Avatar
The ATX The ATX is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Where the lights are much brighter
Posts: 12,016
Quote:
Originally Posted by AusTxDevelopment View Post
There is a team from Amazon in Austin this week looking at Southeast "creative" office locations, but not very big. They only want about 40,000 square feet. They are also looking at warehouse sites in Round Rock and Georgetown to build on.
Yay! Participant trophies.
__________________
Follow The ATX on X:
https://twitter.com/TheATX1

Things will be great when you're downtown.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #90  
Old Posted Nov 8, 2018, 6:14 PM
Novacek Novacek is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 2,506
Existing Catalyst developer being bought out

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n...onprofits.html

"The arts district would be part of a much broader mixed-use project Presidium is planning on the East Riverside Drive corridor. The company owns more than 200 acres along the corridor, Wallace said. It also intends to buy out Nimes Real Estate in the 97-acre East Riverside Drive project previously called Project Catalyst that is moving through permitting, he added."
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #91  
Old Posted Nov 8, 2018, 7:24 PM
urbancore urbancore is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Zilker
Posts: 1,508
Where are the 200 acres Presidium already owns along Riverside Corridor?
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #92  
Old Posted Nov 8, 2018, 10:25 PM
mumu mumu is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 140
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dcbrickley View Post
Where are the 200 acres Presidium already owns along Riverside Corridor?
They own several older apartment buildings- Element, Solaris, University Village, and the big shopping center where Emos is. Added to this will be Ballpark Apartments and Town Lake apartments.

Also - Edison (under construction).

This makes them a truly dominant owner in the area that can really shape things.


http://www.presidiumre.com/portfolio/
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #93  
Old Posted Nov 8, 2018, 10:32 PM
The ATX's Avatar
The ATX The ATX is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Where the lights are much brighter
Posts: 12,016
I'm losing interest in this project. All indications are that it will be developed piecemeal over a decade or two. A major project like another Oracle campus or HQ4 could speed it up a little.
__________________
Follow The ATX on X:
https://twitter.com/TheATX1

Things will be great when you're downtown.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #94  
Old Posted Nov 9, 2018, 1:57 PM
The ATX's Avatar
The ATX The ATX is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Where the lights are much brighter
Posts: 12,016
This is on the agenda at next week's Planning Commission meeting. Here's a map that shows exactly where the 97 acres are.


http://www.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=310271
__________________
Follow The ATX on X:
https://twitter.com/TheATX1

Things will be great when you're downtown.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #95  
Old Posted Nov 9, 2018, 4:23 PM
mumu mumu is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 140
Quote:
Originally Posted by The ATX View Post
I'm losing interest in this project. All indications are that it will be developed piecemeal over a decade or two. A major project like another Oracle campus or HQ4 could speed it up a little.
A decade or two sounds too long, unless there's a big recession.

This area of Austin is the last one left that's in a prime new urbanist dream type area, that's already semi zoned right, just in need of a bit more height and density and transit. With a rapid bus or light rail between downtown and the airport running on riverside, this area can absorb a huge amount of new office, retail, and residential buildings, while adding relatively little car traffic per capita.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #96  
Old Posted Nov 9, 2018, 6:06 PM
The ATX's Avatar
The ATX The ATX is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Where the lights are much brighter
Posts: 12,016
Quote:
Originally Posted by mumu View Post
A decade or two sounds too long, unless there's a big recession.

This area of Austin is the last one left that's in a prime new urbanist dream type area, that's already semi zoned right, just in need of a bit more height and density and transit. With a rapid bus or light rail between downtown and the airport running on riverside, this area can absorb a huge amount of new office, retail, and residential buildings, while adding relatively little car traffic per capita.
The original developer said this would be developed in three phases over 15 years. If the sale goes through, hopefully the time frame would be shortened.
__________________
Follow The ATX on X:
https://twitter.com/TheATX1

Things will be great when you're downtown.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #97  
Old Posted Jan 10, 2019, 1:37 AM
AusTxDevelopment AusTxDevelopment is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 808
New look, new name.

The flipbook has lots more images: https://issuu.com/austincre/docs/riverside_flipbook

Reply With Quote
     
     
  #98  
Old Posted Jan 10, 2019, 2:25 AM
We vs us We vs us is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 3,587
So wait. This isn't Project Catalyst, is it? It looks like it's across the street.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #99  
Old Posted Jan 10, 2019, 2:42 AM
AusTxDevelopment AusTxDevelopment is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 808
Quote:
Originally Posted by We vs us View Post
So wait. This isn't Project Catalyst, is it? It looks like it's across the street.
Same project. It's the Catalyst Two site, which is across the street from Catalyst One. Same owner - Presidium, same leasing broker - CBRE, same and similar images and maps in the brochure if you compare the two of them. This is probably their 'phase I' since they said they would build it out in phases.

Edited to add: Presidium submitted this land site as a contender for HQ2, and I imagine they spent a lot of money doing mock-up renderings to show what could be built on these parcels to lure Amazon. They did the work, so why not market it to possibly get another company to lease there. The Catalyst Two site is the smaller one so of course they would start with that.

Reply With Quote
     
     
  #100  
Old Posted Jan 10, 2019, 9:39 AM
mumu mumu is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 140
Is this lot going to be the Arts District or 500k sq ft offices?




It's confusing that they were talking about making an eventually permanent "Pop-up" art's district here.

However, this news article explains more:

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/lo.../269-625874890


more:
https://www.austinchronicle.com/musi...arts-district/
Reply With Quote
     
     
This discussion thread continues

Use the page links to the lower-right to go to the next page for additional posts
 
 
Reply

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > United States > Texas & Southcentral > Austin
Forum Jump


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 2:56 PM.

     
SkyscraperPage.com - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.