Took these about 2 weeks ago. It was an exceptionally clear day.

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East Riverside Drive

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7Rio

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The Bowie

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JW Marriott

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Last week - from the Hyatt
 

[QUOTE=Mopacs;6289577]Took these about 2 weeks ago. It was an exceptionally clear day.

Sweet pics! Thanks for posting those.

Nice pics, guys. Has anyone been up to the Hanger yet? They have a killer view of the Colorado Tower and JW Marriott construction from their roof.

Fairmont now scheduled for a January 2014 ground breaking according to recent AAS article. Keeps getting pushed back. Fingers crossed it gets built.....

That AAS article about Austin's hotel boom said the Fairmont site plan was approved and quoted Douglas Manchester as saying the hotel would start in January with a completion date of Fall 2016. He also said "our architects are deep into creating the final designs...this puts us on track to break ground in January."

The article also said there are two hotels going up on Red River across from Stubbs: Hotel Indigo (134 rooms) and Holiday Inn Express (164 rooms).

I'm confident that the Fairmont will get built, that and Zaza hotel & residence. :cheers: On the 2 new hotels I had no idea that they started. I'm assuming that the Holiday Inn is the 8 story building that is approved on the corner block of Neches & E. 9th St.?

Indigo Hotel and Holiday Inn Express are part of the same company, so this may be one of those two hotels in one developments.

The north JW Marriott Hotel crane is being jumped today.

You can defiantly see the JW Marriott cranes from Mueller.

Guys, if you want to discuss the government shutdown there's a thread for it here in the Current Events section of the forum.

Ok thanks Kevin... :tup:

Seaholm Update:

http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-rea...-are-backausa/

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I like this building's look. :-)

The aircraft warning lights are on now on top of the Skyhouse.

I took this on Oct. 3rd.

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FWIW, the Oct 1 emerging projects poster says that Shoal Creek Walk is set to start construction in 2013.

This poster is also the first mention I've seen of North Shore Lofts. I don't know how I missed that news, but I really hope that's built because it would partially hide the Holiday Inn. Say what you will about the Hilton, the Holiday Inn is in the running for Austin's ugliest high rise. The Hilton is bigger and the Holiday Inn is farther to the south, but the Holiday Inn is the first high rise building people see coming into Austin from the south and that's really unfortunate. Case in point. I wish they'd tear it down. But, at the very least, North Shore Lofts being built would be a huge improvement.

It won't hide much of the Holiday Inn. I don't know how many levels of parking there will be and/or if they'll be above or below ground, but the residential part of North Shore Lofts is only supposed to be 4 stories tall.

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Well, that is also unfortunate. I wish they'd do Austin a favor and build it as tall as they possibly can. What good is a building on the lake if it's not high enough to get any kind of views? Sure, the location is good, but it would be a big missed opportunity. Still, assuming it's at least 3 stories of parking, it would still blunt the effect of the Holiday Inn by being in front of it and making it stand out less.

Shoal Creek Walk
 

I saw what looked like a core sample drilling truck at the 5th and Bowie corner of Shoal Creek Walk tonight.

I don't know if anyone knows this but there were 4 Royal Princes in Austin this year secretly trying to find love, I came across this on a tv commercial I just saw. If interested it will be on TLC called Secret Princes, it also had a good shot of the skyline as well as the Tiniest bar in Texas.