FWIW, the Extended Stay directly south of this parking lot is also for sale. This whole area adjacent to the Statesman lot will be interesting to watch. The Zax/Aussie's lot was recently purchased, the empty Threadgills, and now One Texas Center and Extended Stay all with development on the horizon...

Those in-town Extended Stay hotels have a very short shelf life. This one actually has a fairly respectable clientele.

How would one know that? :)

A friend of mine who lives just up the hill in a condo on S. Lamar puts his parents up at that hotel when they come to town for long visits. They are upper middle class folks from OKC and are usually happy enough with the accommodations and report no concerns about the clientele. So there! I would never use such a respectable joint for any of my illicit liaisons, assuming I still had illicit liaisons at my advanced age.

Can confirm from my own illicit liaisons there that the Extended Stay there is one of the nicer ones I've seen.

This is on the PC agenda for next week's 05/26 meeting. But it appears to be another request to delay that didn't make it on the 05/12 PC meeting agenda.

Movement on the Statesman site
 

It appears the Statesman is gonna vacate: under an article posted on line

Statesman signs lease, will relocate to Southeast Austin site next year

https://www.statesman.com/business/2...site-next-year


"...the Austin American-Statesman has signed a lease for more than 34,000 square feet of space at MetCenter, a corporate business park that the newspaper will move into next year in Southeast Austin...The newspaper’s current 19-acre site at 305 S. Congress Ave., on the south shore of Lady Bird Lake, is slated for redevelopment into a mixed-use project with high-rise towers filled with office, residential, hotel, retail and restaurant space."

This was referenced in the article
https://www.statesman.com/news/20190...-mixed-reviews

Well at least they can take the light rail to their old stomping grounds.

Yikes, what a stuffy industrial setting for our local newspaper. They should have moved to Highland. But I guess they needed something cheaper.

What's the status of this development to replace the Austin-American Statesman building?

Global pandemic + ensuing recession causing a stagnation in downtown office demand while lots of new unleased office space comes online?

This will be part of the next economic wave in 2-6 years depending on your outlook. I mean, at this point expect everything that isn't off the ground or about to get off the ground as stalled and be pleasantly surprised when something isn't.

I heard today from someone working at the Statesman that the old Statesman site will get torn down next year with a mix use development being built on it.

^ Wow. Hope to learn more.

Excellent rumormongering! +1!

sorry I will push for more information on the buildings.

This project is on the Planning Commission agenda tomorrow night. Staff is asking for at least the third indefinite postponement in a row. The last two were 05/20 and 12/19.

Since it has been a while...

At last word this is the project that the Planning Commission is being asked to rezone the Statesman site for. It's Endeavor with SOM as the architect.

https://i.imgur.com/HBILF2C.png

Is this just procedural because no one is prepared to vote? or is this a statement of some sort?

The PC is business and doesn't play games like the HLC. The delays have all been related to traffic analysis. With the economy slowing down, I'm not surprised that Endeavor isn't trying to move forward faster. Endeavor is probably in favor of the slow down until they know what is feasible in the current economy.

Too bad, that would be a fabulous location for a landmark opera house.