The Metropolitan in Austin

Boris · #1 Posted **Feb 3, 2007, 1:59 PM**

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Condos likely to sprout near Capitol
Developer of 8-story project is planning underground parking and street-level stores.

Saturday, February 03, 2007

A mid-rise luxury condominium project is headed downtown, two blocks from the Capitol.

Developers plan to break ground on the $50 million project, the Metropolitan, in late March. The site at 311 E. 11th St. is a parking lot behind the VFW office building at East 11th Street and San Jacinto Boulevard.

The developer, the Mote Group, plans a chic, eight-story building with units priced from the mid-$300,000s for about 900 square feet to more than $1 million for the larger penthouses, two-story glass lofts with private roof gardens. The project is expected to take two years to build, opening in 2009.

The Metropolitan is one of a dozen or so residential projects planned or under construction downtown, a building boom spurred by continued demand for urban living.

http://www.statesman.com/business/co...3downtown.html

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MichaelB · #2 Posted **Feb 3, 2007, 6:50 PM**

Wouldn't that give me a lovely view of the La Quinta?

KevinFromTexas · #3 Posted **Feb 4, 2007, 2:36 AM**

This project has been floating around for a while now. It was first proposed as "303 Urban Village". That was in 2005 I believe. I also doubt it'll be "8-stories". Instead it looks like it's no more than 6 floors, 80 feet tall maybe if that's what they mean.