Austin | ATX Tower (325 West 6th) | 675 Feet | 58 Floors | U/C - Page 3

Jdawgboy · #41 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 6:21 PM**

Um... really

The design is to complement 6X? Basically what they are saying is they have no creativity. Be bold and unique with a tower that size for goodness sake. I feel Austin is going way overboard with designs being way too similar just for the sake of complementing one another.

The ATX · #42 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 6:26 PM**

From the article:

Levels 1-11 = Parking with ground floor retail
Levels 12-17 = Offices
Levels 18-19 = Apartment amenities
Levels 20-60 = Apartments

LiveattheOasis · #43 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 6:50 PM**

Sign of BBVA moving their Birmingham HQ ?...

Austin1971 · #44 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 7:00 PM**

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urbancore · #45 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 7:23 PM**

I guess we know who's financing it. Or at least that it shouldn’t be a problem.

the Genral · #46 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 7:34 PM**

Call me McGenral cause I'm loving it.

zrx299 · #47 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 9:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

From the article:

Levels 1-11 = Parking with ground floor retail
Levels 12-17 = Offices
Levels 18-19 = Apartment amenities
Levels 20-60 = Apartments

This gives new meaning to "corporate apartments" if BBVA is going to hang their name on a building with 40 floors of residential and only 9% office space.

Other than that, let's get some steel in the ground and a crane or two in the air!

Austin1971 · #48 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 9:20 PM**

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Sigaven · #49 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 9:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Austin1971

Finally broke that 700' range....

Did we just go from 400' ceiling to 700' ceiling in the span of a year?!

We vs us · #50 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 9:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sigaven

Did we just go from 400' ceiling to 700' ceiling in the span of a year?!

I mean — that new Hanover project is a 500 footer and we were all pretty ho-hum about it.

I admit, my first thought was “that’s a solid addition to the Railyards District.”

Austin1971 · #51 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 9:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by sigaven

did we just go from 400' ceiling to 700' ceiling in the span of a year?!

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paul78701 · #52 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 9:43 PM**

The amount of square footage going up within the few blocks in that area is staggering. And it's all essentially going up during a single time frame. Not many cities can pull that off.

Austinite101 · #53 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 9:48 PM**

I can’t even fathom what the skyline will look like in 2022. I still remember the sentiment on this forum between 2009-2015 usually being “ill believe it when I see it.”

How many of these buildings are we certain to get? Surely at least one or two won’t come to fruition.

Echostatic · #54 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 10:07 PM**

I like this design better than 6X's. It looks sleek as hell from these renderings, while 6X has some clunkiness to it. I feel like Austin's "400' Plateau" has come and gone at this point.

We vs us · #55 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 10:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by LiveattheOasis

Sign of BBVA moving their Birmingham HQ ?...

Must be something significant if not an HQ. I mean, if you’re only moving your IT staff to Austin, you grab sq ft at the Domain, or up by Techridge. If you’re doing a major thing, you brand one of the tallest towers in Austin.

If you look at their building in B’ham, it’s totally plausible. What a total clunker.

Billy Cannon · #56 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 10:35 PM**

Let me get this straight. It’s taller the 600 Guad but on a quarter block as opposed to Guad’s whole block? That is staggering

ATXboom · #57 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 10:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Billy Cannon

Let me get this straight. It’s taller the 600 Guad but on a quarter block as opposed to Guad’s whole block? That is staggering

Shorter... 6X is 848' I believe and this will be around 770' (but on a quarter block)

myBrain · #58 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 10:56 PM**

Page posted it on their instagram today too

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Q9umWlLC9/

The west face is curvier than I noticed at first glance.

ToTheSky · #59 Posted **Dec 19, 2019, 11:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sigaven

Did we just go from 400' ceiling to 700' ceiling in the span of a year?!

Looks like it, and wow! What a time to be alive and a skyscraper nerd in Austin TX! It was just a few short years ago that some of these same complainers about this buildings design were lamenting the "we can't break the 400 ft plateau". Hilarious! Now we're seeing 500+ footers spring up like this is Miami in 2005-2007 and we're bitter table for one over the designs. Jeepers H Crackers peeps, some of you need to catch a clue and get over yourselves. This is AWESOME!

KevinFromTexas · #60 Posted **Dec 20, 2019, 12:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Austin1971

I was off by 20'......770'

https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-usa-tak...wntown-austin/

Here is the "half rendering" they have from that page.

Here is the full sized image from that link.

Here is the full rendering from the Business Journal article.