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Old Posted Apr 9, 2021, 11:16 PM
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The location of the crane seems so close to OAC. Any info on the crane height or will it be a luffing crane?
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Old Posted Jun 28, 2021, 8:14 PM
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More progress - a tower crane licensing permit was filed today:

https://abc.austintexas.gov/public-s...rtyrsn=5805737
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Old Posted Jun 30, 2021, 9:11 PM
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And an FAA permit for the crane - 354 feet. Surely, this is going to have to be a luffing crane because of the proximity to One American Center.

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https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...86245188&row=8
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And an FAA permit for the crane - 354 feet. Surely, this is going to have to be a luffing crane because of the proximity to One American Center.

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I still don't like this place. 🤮 It's ugly, boxy and uninviting-looking, unlike the Hyatt Centric across the street. Are they ever going to consider having an appropriate number of small green plazas downtown where people can relax? This would have been the perfect place for one!
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I still don't like this place. 🤮 It's ugly, boxy and uninviting-looking, unlike the Hyatt Centric across the street. Are they ever going to consider having an appropriate number of small green plazas downtown where people can relax? This would have been the perfect place for one!
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Old Posted Jul 1, 2021, 12:55 PM
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I'm talking about a REAL plaza - one with benches, greenery, something like a water feature (a koi fish pond would be nice) and perhaps two or three eclectic food trucks for lunch and in the evening.
And where are all these ugly "budget" hotels coming from, anyway. It's not like EVERYBODY in Silicon Valley is coming to Austin on business trips!
Europeans tourists are looking for new places to go. The ones who stay in places like The Element, Hyatt Centric, Hotel Van Zandt, or even Hotel San Jose. These middle class Europeans typically have two months paid vacations after three years employment (three to four months for the Germans). AND they rent out their flats to wealthy Americans, Asians and Latin Americans for big bucks while they're on vacation, so they generally DON'T need to travel on a budget!
And seriously, Austin does NOT have a lot of outdoor venues outside of Dirty 6th which does NOT get good writeups in travel guides. Go to Hell's Kitchen, NYC and there are outdoor venues all over the place, including on the rooftops of virtually every 5 to 7 story walkup. Montreal's the same way. People from Across the Pond LOVE the outdoors. I mean, who goes to Paris to spend their time indoors, unless you're at Le Musée du Louvre!
I mean really! Most of these ugly, cheap hotels are destined to go the way of the Alamo Hotel!
It's time to turn Austin into a REAL CITY that everybody can love. I mean, I hear people on this forum talk about how boring our skyline is, sometimes, but I actually think it is a really good mixture of modernism. the skyscrapers we built in our 80s building boom complement the newer buildings on the skyline quite well, so it is quite unique.
And it's time to not just dance in the streets, but on the rooftops, as well, like they do in Montreal and NYC and London and Paris and Berlin and Amsterdam and Copenhagen and Stockholm and Barcelona and Rome.
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FWIW, Citizen M is very specifically pointed at young Millenial and Gen Z travelers of the American persuasion. It's the young end of the same pool of travelers that Centric/Aloft/Element are all targeting. It's the lowish budget, center-city, experience is everything, love-my-electric-scooter crowd.

I think it's interesting that we're seeing a cluster of this segment grow up within a few blocks of each other. Why here, and not on the further western end of 6th, for instance? Around the new Canopy? That's an area that needs more overnight rooms, IMO.
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This one is getting close to starting. Fifty or so finish out permits for the hotel were filed yesterday, and a permit to excavate in a bus/taxi lane was filed today.
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August 30th. That's when the right of closure for construction begins.

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August 30th. That's when the right of closure for construction begins.

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8/31, parking still available

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The dates on the right of way closure permit haven't changed. They have since filed permits related to excavation and utilities. So any day now...
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The right of way closures were updated to begin Monday next week.
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do you mean now blocked off?
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Old Posted Sep 22, 2021, 2:33 PM
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The tower crane is scheduled to go up the weekend beginning 11/19:

https://abc.austintexas.gov/public-s...rtyrsn=2018710
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Can now be classified as U/C, the quickest transition I’ve seen.

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