This says they're breaking ground in October!
The article says 2nd tallest in Austin after The Austonian, so I'm wondering if they decided to keep the spire or not. I was told the hotel might have a helipad on the roof and that it could interfere with plans for the spire. There was one rendering I posted above that seemed to show the building without the spire. I sent an email to Gensler on Tuesday asking about the spire, but I haven't heard back about that.
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl....html?page=all
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Feb 28, 2013, 8:33am CST
Two more hotel projects to break ground in downtown Austin
Jan Buchholz
Staff Writer-
Austin Business Journal
Downtown Austin observers have had their eyes peeled on the intense construction activity at the JW Marriott hotel site, now sporting three massive tower cranes.
But soon the skyline will be punctuated with new tower cranes, as two more hotels are preparing to break ground in the next six months. Developers of the proposed Hotel Van Zandt in the Waterfront District and the Fairmont Austin nearby confirmed that they are moving ahead with construction. The announcements were made at the monthly breakfast gathering of the Urban Land Institute’s Austin chapter.
A short distance away at Red River and Cesar Chavez streets, Manchester Texas Financial Group LLC is planning to break ground in October on the Fairmont Austin, a 50-story, 1,000-room hotel that will be the second highest building in the city behind The Austonian condominiums.
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