Arena

Flyover of the site at 2:38

https://vimeo.com/790812417

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Love it.

Hot on the Trail of Downtown’s Mystery Hotel Tower at Seventh and Trinity


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Here’s Our First Look at the Downtown Austin Condo Tower at 14th and Lavaca

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Love all the development around the MLS stadium!

I really like the podium on this one. It’s handsome imo.

415 Colorado

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321 W 6th

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Someone on another forum asked how many residential units are under construction Downtown. I thought I’d share this here as well given we don’t have any recent stats. I got the number of units for every building from towers.

The Waller - 388 units (multifamily)
700 River - 377 units (multifamily)
The Travis - 414 units (multifamily)
Waterline - 352 units (multifamily)
415 Colorado - 328 units (multifamily)
6xGuad - 349 units (multifamily)
321 West - 370 units (multifamily)
Hanover Brazos Street - 308 units (multifamily)
Paseo - 557 units (multifamily)
Vesper - 284 units (condos)
Modern - 365 units (condos)
The Linden - 117 units (condos)
Ashram - 6 units (condos)


3,443 multifamily units
772 condos
4,215 total

With groundbreaking imminent for 5RR (242 units) the total would be upped to 4,457.

14th and Lavaca looks very promising, especially if the lighter accents are closer to a bronze color and texture than a tan, painted concrete.

Yeah, I like that one. I'm getting a sort of Boston and Seattle vibe from it. It'll be nice to have something tall that isn't all glass.

Nice update!

I hadn't realized the condo / multifamily ratio was so small. In my mind it was closer to 50/50.

Meet Verde Square, Giving Austin’s Soccer Stadium a Brand New Skyline

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Looks like 10 stories of parking on the lower half of the tower on the right. Eek.

This will be a great project next to the stadium! Excited to see the retail and restaurant options on first levels.

All of the highrises at the Domain are like this. It's awful.

That slide is cool, but it would be a lot cooler if it came out of the top floor of the parking garage.

And right into the queso fountain.

All of the highrises in AUSTIN are like this. Because it is near the Domain and limited to less than 400 feet, it is ONLY 10 stories of parking.

Sorry guys, there is no big verde slide in the approved plan.

But they still have the queso fountain, right?

You know, I'd be okay if the slide was an inflatable only on game days. But only if it goes into a queso fountain.

Will they just change the name of this thing to Salsa Verde Square Tortilla Chip already?

I was noticing those protruded window bays. A few things, it looks like there's a staircase leading down the one on the right side of the building, which would be very cool to walk on. And it looks like those protruded window bays are glass on the ends, too, meaning that they effectively overhang the face of the building, sort of like the glass floor attraction at the Sears Tower in Chicago. I don't see a glass floor in these, but the view still should be quite good, and it's an interesting design feature.

I think it's important to note that the approved elevations for Verde Square have not been released as of today. So we don't know if the newly discovered renderings are the final version.

Yes I agree!

I find it hard to believe they would change the location of buildings on the site plan at the last minute. That is the kind of thing that has numerous repercussions on other elements of the site plan and would usually require a withdrawal and resubmittal of the plan. Who would want to spend a year or more in the approval process only to start over again? And if they did make such a significant last minute change, how did it get approved so quickly?

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Nice view!

62 East Ave 684’
This little infill project would have been the tallest in Austin prior to the Independent’s completion in 2019. :slob:

I'll have to look it up again - but, with this tower (plus The Modern & Wilson), Austin might have all of the Top 5 tallest all-residential towers west of the Mississippi River.

555-Bed Student Housing Project to Rise at UT

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I like this one for this area!

Nice height for West Campus. Do we know where exactly it's going to be located?

Also announced today: the new long-awaited Texas football practice facility. Also, if you look closely in the first image, you can see there's a white building behind it that's yet to be announced (but probably something really being planned for).

The practice facility construction will start in 2023 and shouldn't take long to complete as it's not a very complicated structure. Link for more info.

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The School of Social Work is in this location right now. Maybe that's being moved to that aforementioned white building.

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Graduate Hotels Is Bringing Their Kitschy Unique Style To Austin

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FYI...this is not the final design. It's preliminary imaging to kick-start the fundraising.

If you are speaking about the "white" building to the immediate southwest of the new Moody Center (east of this new football facility) - that's the new basketball training facility (which is already open). The School of Social Work is moving to the space occupied by Dobie Mall.

Whats the location for this? That is a really good looking building.

What I read is that Social Work is moving to McCombs and McCombs is moving to Dobie.

McCombs? The entire business school? I definitely think not. McCombs encompasses far more SF than the School of Social Work now. There is no way they're moving one of the best business schools on the planet to a small, refurbished student mall and replace the space with the School of Social Work.

That's what was reported. But no details provided.

https://247sports.com/college/texas/...oon-208364675/

freerover said he thinks it's just the graduate program. That would make sense. That has moved to Rowling Hall over on MLK. But the article states McCombs WILL move in the coming years to Dobie. I wonder if they'll replace Whitis Place and the rest of that half block with a new highrise to house undergrad.

1800 Guadalupe, the north end of Downtown just before West Campus.

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Too bad that beautiful house is getting destroyed, I assume it dates to the 1930s or so.

It's not a historic building. If I remember correctly, it was built in the mid-1980's.

Wilson Tower’s upper half gone in high-rise’s updated plans
 

"The downtown apartment tower’s original plans would have made it the tallest building in all of Texas at 1,035 feet tall, but new plans call for a trimming of floors: from 80 to 45"


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Thats too bad, that building had a great design.

It dates back to 1923. The city didn’t deem it historic as the original structure received multiple additions overtime.

Here’s a New View of the Downtown Austin Hotel Planned at Fifth and Lavaca

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I really hate that!

Maybe by the time this project happens (if it ever does) they’ll bump the floor count up slightly. I could like with this thing being in the 600+ foot range, but anything smaller and it will just get absorbed into the skyline like Frost.