I think you're right. A friend of mine sent someone over at Ziegler Cooper a message, wanting to know more about the one for Houston. She doesn't know much about that one but did say the one for Austin is 20-stories.

Was looking at the ZaZa/Gables Republic Square site plan again and realized it was designed by Ziegler Cooper.

We might be seeing something announced for 5th & Brazos somewhat soon. Possibly a 50-story hotel/apartment combo.

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Are you talking about the lot to the north-east of the Frost Bank tower? What have you heard?

I won't hold my breath.

I'm excited to see how this develops, but yeah, don't hold your breath. It'll probably be longer than 3 minutes. :)


Kotliz, the info I posted was what I saw stated in public, so that's what I wanted to share. I'm not an insider. Someone who is in this line of work was just kind enough to throw that tidbit out there on another board unrelated to skyscrapers.

I think I saw the post you are referring to.

KUT has some cool pictures of possible intake designs for Seaholm. http://kutnews.org/post/slideshow-10...ake-structures

http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net...Luis.09_AM.jpg

http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net...ully.33_AM.jpg

http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net...udio.10_AM.jpg

http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net...orge.44_AM.jpg

http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net..._MLA.40_AM.jpg

http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net...ings.44_AM.jpg

http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net...M_CS.03_AM.jpg

All pictures are from KUT http://kutnews.org/post/slideshow-10...ake-structures

honestly the first one is my favorite

I like whichever ones have a boardwalk and something that juts out into the water. I was also wondering if that could be a possible small music venue. Imagine sitting in your canoe/kayak watching a band play on the boardwalk stage. Of course, it would be pretty hot out on the water listening to a concert in the day time. And most people don't go out on the lake in a canoe or kayak after dark.

Magellen is no joke... they've put up a number of major apartment buildings.

Correct. The hotel brand was not disclosed yet. Let the speculation begin. What is Austin missing that has both a main & premium brand?

Here's a project Magellan has going in Minneapolis using Loewenberg Architects LLC. It's a 36-story apartment building called LPM Apartments.

http://www.mchughconstruction.com/ph...a75a518c5e.jpg

Project webcam: http://www.ibeamsystems.com/private/loringpark/

^Here's the construction thread on that one.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=193500

They also did Aqua in Chicago.

http://www.magellandevelopment.com/w...10/02/Aqua.pdf

Here's the construction thread on that.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...highlight=aqua

Aqua is one of my favorite high-rise's in the U.S.!!! However, everything seems to be dumbed-down for Austin. It would be really cool to see a developer finally step out and create something very modern and uniquely aesthetic for Austin's skyline.

The 82-story Aqua was completed in 2009 at a development cost of roughly $475 million ($300 million in construction costs). So, it may be doable here in Austin. Considering the development costs of the W Austin Hotel & Residences, the JW Marriott Austin, and the possible Fairmont Hotel Austin are/were all in excess of $300 million.

That's not entirely true... the JW Marriott was actually originally very dumb looking. Not no more. Also, the Fairmont is going to look pretty slick. It's probably going to be my favorite tower once its finished. 311 Bowie is cool too. Anyway... you get the point.

Very excited that Magellan may invest in Austin. They do signature projects and are well connected to financing. They are a big boy development group. Smart of them to invest in ATX. The dynamics are right.

While we may not have top-tier architecture and I wish Austin had more historic buildings, we have a lot of great looking buildings for being a small city. Frost is still one of my favorite buildings and I think the Marriott will be up there. Weird to say considering its a hotel and I am not usually a fan of hotel designs. Also the granite congress buildings have a timeless appeal in my opinion and are great looking smaller office buildings.

I don't believe it is homerism either. I remember being wow'd by the aesthetic of our skyline when I returned to Austin in 2008 and my wife who isn't into skyscrapers has made comments about our buildings and skyline. She puts it as, "Austin might not have one of the biggest skylines, but it's one of the prettiest I have seen.".

I'm rarely the person to urge caution, but this a simply a rumor flying around on a lowly message board started by a user who - although smart, capable, etc., has not been here very long - without any independent corroboration.

Settle down. If it happens, it happens. Great! But if it doesn't it won't be a big surprise.

It was just a one sentence post by someone in the Downtown Projects thread (Page 12, post 561) in the Shaggybevo forum.