Any chance the population, commuter and such discussion could have its own thread so this can be more focused on tall buildings? :)

Yes, what BevoLJ said. Need pictures of what's happening in Austin. :)

I'm ready to see some height on Bowie and some new pics of the lakefront with the Gables Tower finished.

I moved those posts to their own thread.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=206535

That title is way generic, though. Anyone have a better idea for one? Maybe we can use it as our defacto population discussion thread for when estimates are released.

Lincoln Property plans downtown office tower
 

Lincoln Property plans downtown office tower

Jan BuchholzStaff Writer- Austin Business Journal

Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co. is planning to build a nine-story office building on the southwest corner of West Fifth and Colorado streets in downtown Austin.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...-downtown.html

Does that mean 6 above ground parking levels plus the 9 stories on top of the parking?

Only 9 stories for there!?!? What a waste.

That's what I'm thinking. Surely you wouldn't need 6 levels of parking for just a few floors of offices.

BoA building I'm in at 6th and Congress has 9 floors of parking at 16 floors of office...

Now the footpring looks smaller but I have to imagine with 6 floors of parking you'd have at least 9 floors of office... Will parking be above or below grade?

It has to mean 6 floors of parking with nine floors of office above. Ther's no way you could fit 179,000 square feet of office space on 3 floors with such a small footprint.

A fifteen floor office building with ground floor retail will be a huge improvement over the current surface parking lot.

They must have meant it'll be 9 floors of office over 6 floors of parking. They said the building would have 179,000 square feet of space. If that's not counting the parking garage that would mean the 3 office floors would have roughly 58,000 square feet each. I seriously doubt that would be the case. Most buildings typically have 20,000 to 25,000 square foot floor plates. That site is simply not large enough to have nearly 60,000 square foot floor plates.

173,000 square feet divided among 9 floors would be 19,222 square feet.

By the way, it was also Lincoln Property Co. that developed 100 Congress. They also teamed up with HKS, Inc. who designed it. They're both doing this tower as well. Hopefully it'll be something nice. HKS, Inc. does nice buildings. And this should obscure the fugly east wall of the Plaza Lofts a bit. This was the site of the planned and now canceled 1Hotel. That building would have been 215 feet tall with 17 floors. It would be nice to see something get built there since everything on that property had been demolished to make way for the unbuilt hotel.

And I would not be surprised to see a 15-story office building ending up being about the same height that the hotel was planned to be. I would imagine this will be around 200 feet tall.

Looks like they got heavy equipment at The Fairmont site. Can someone confirm this?

It was being used as a parking like normal with no heavy equipment as of Tuesday morning.

You can just make out that open lot above the roof of the Skyhouse from the OxBlue camera (http://oxblue.com/open/SkyHouseApartments) at Legacy, and it does not look full of parked cars as usual, but I don't see any equipment. Even zoomed in it's not clear enough.

ummmm so this happened...

http://xgames.espn.go.com/article/94...tin-texas-2014

Towards the end of the video in the link there's a sign with Austin's City Limits population that reads 650,something. LOL!

Downtown Westin
 

They enclosed the Westin site with construction barriers this morning. Hopefully they're getting ready to start the project.

My head is spinning at all the construction underway or imminent.

Thanks, I wasn't to sure.

I was looking at the webcam last night, and what I thought appeared to be construction equipment.

So here's one for the front page, BevoLJ. It's The Park. It has 9 floors.

So from the elevations the height is 106 feet to the mechanical roof and 96 feet to the main roof. The top floor (it has 9 floors) is 83 feet.

I'm sure they'll need a tower crane for this. And given the close proximity of the buildings on either side, it'll likely be around 190 feet tall. 811 Barton, the building to the west, (right in the rendering), is 143 feet tall. I'm sure they'll want to clear it by 50 feet or so to give the cable and hook clearance.

Although, they might not use a tower crane. I guess they might use a self erecting crane like the one they're using at Coldwater.

New plans have been filed with the city that show the building elevations for the Hotel ZaZa and Apartments.

Bottom of this link:

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...ullPlanSet.pdf

The building elevations also do a good job of showing what the building will look like. They're planning to have 4 flagpoles on the mechanical roof facing Lavaca Street that will become the highest flying flags in Austin.

The first height we saw came from a conceptual plan that only showed the number of floors and not the design. That height was 295 feet to the mechanical roof.

This one is much more detailed and most recent.

The heights are:

329 feet 11 inches to the top of the 4 flagpoles.
305 feet 2 inches to the mechanical roof. (the official architectural height).
284 feet 11 inches to the main roof.
269 feet 7 inches to 24th floor (top floor).
269 feet 7 inches to 24th floor setback.
88 feet 10 3/8 inches to podium roof/hotel amenity deck.

Since this building will have a hotel and residential, there will be two pools. The hotel pool is on the 7th floor while the residence pool is on the 24th floor setback.

The south elevations also show that they are planning to incorporate the Gingerman/Ghost Room facade in the design. I think this will turn out to be a nice building. It looks like they're planning to pay attention to detail. If this building was completed today it would be the 25th tallest building in Austin.

http://i.imgur.com/OcCPWNx.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Wh7DQJ5.jpg

WOW Midland gets this?!?!?
http://www.energytower.co/