Oh my that sucks, I will not go to that fast food, if the Wendy's is failing for lack of sales maybe the next one will too, hope they fail. I was hoping for something more healthy.

I think LoneStarMike (and you too, apparently) misread that. The Wendy's isn't closing, only the Gatti's did.

:slob: Tons of renderings included with this article.

http://www.statesman.com/business/re...inglePage=true

Made a bunch of updates to the op. Kevin could you please take a look and make sure I didn't miss or screw up anything? lol.

From that article you posted I changed a few things. A name change for Rainey Center. The floor count of the Gables II and Whitley, as well as added some of the renderings into appropriate spoilers. And I moved the Skyhouse up to approved and made a guesstimate of 270 feet for its height.

Anyone know the approximate completion or opening date for the new Federal Courthouse and Cirrus HQ?

Edit: Also got some new updated pictures from Cirrus that I will add.

Compilation from that article. If all this stuff happens, we'll probably end up having the biggest decade for skyscraper construction ever in Austin. And this is just the stuff we know about, and actually, this article missed some of the smaller projects in the 10 to 12 floor range. And this is only for downtown. This isn't even including West Campus projects and what might be built at University Park and the South Shore, plus other projects around town such as at Mueller or the Domain.

Projected Start dates:

18 high rises total in this list that might be starting construction in the next year or two. Most of them will be starting this year or next. And again, this only for downtown! :eeekk:

Gables Park Plaza II - 18 floors (Under construction)
3rd & Brazos - 16 floors (under construction)
SkyHouse - 23 floors (Start July 2012)
Colorado & 3rd - 30 floors (Start late 2012)
The Fairmont Austin - 48 floors (Start Spring 2013)
JW Marriott - 33 floors - (Start June 2012 "summer" by article's quote)
Rainey Center - 50 floors (two buildings) - (Start Undetermined)
Seaholm Plaza Apartments - 28 floors - (Start Late July)
Austin Energy Control Center Site - 30-40 floors (two towers) - (Start 2014 - 2015)
Green Water Site - Two 30 floor towers, 28 floor tower and 17 floor tower - (Start early 2013)
Future Whole Foods Headquarters - 20 floors - (Start late 2013)
3 eleven Bowie - 36 floors - (Start third quarter this year)
IBC Bank Plaza - 13 floors - (Start December 2012)

EDIT - Looks good, Bevo. Thanks.

Obviously none of this includes things that will be announced later in the decade. We should assume that we'll get a few more condo towers and a fair amount of office space later in the decade after the apartment sector cools down and the economic recovery accelerates.

What is the IBC Bank Plaza?

500 W. Fifth St. (5th and San Antonio).

At the post office? If a 13 story bank is what is going to replace the post office on that lot by Republic Sq Park I would be very disappointed. I had a lot of hopes for that lot.

Edit: NVM. That is the 400 block. The next one to the west is the 500 block. I'm guess where that parking lot is across from the Federal Courthouse?

It's being designed by Gensler, who is also doing the Fairmont Austin.

It was listed on their website, but now I can't find it.

Novare was originally going to develop two towers. One on the post office site, which is still planned I assume as a 40-story tower. They said it would be around 550 feet tall. The 2nd tower would have been 480 feet tall I believe with 35 floors. I think the taller tower is still planned. Novare, by the way, also did 360 and is developing SkyHouse.

What's impressive about the current boom is that the buildings mentioned in the article are only the ones that are either under construction or expected to start soon. And it doesn't even include the high rises already under construction around West Campus! There are so many other proposals as well as the Green site and the future Waller Creek River Walk that we are looking at a major amount cranes over the next few years. We already have quite a few (Dozen?) around central Austin.

Green Water Treatment Plant Redevelopment

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Link

More Renderings

Love that building. Looks amazing...

:yes:

Wow that is a pretty dense cluster of buildings. lol.

those renderings look a lot like the Four Seasons Hotel here in San Francisco.

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Nice but TOO SHORT lol. Hopefully as maket dictates we will see taller but if they stay the same height it will continue to make our skyline fairly flat looking.

Yeah, I was hoping for more height. But holy smokes what a project. The density is insane. It looks European, like Berlin.

Whoa.
 

Now that is a huge improvement over what was depicted in the renderings released last month. Seriously dense. Seriously cool.

I agree! I like the density, however two hulking buildings that look the same on the waterfront is a colossal mistake. It will flatten our terrific skyline PERMANENTLY. The location absolutely demands that the two towers on the water front be varied by height at minimum and preferably by style as well. Twin towers at this location is a bad choice IMO. Keep Austin Weird! Don't homogenize our waterfront!:hell:

I love the designs, but I do agree with you.

Edit: Something to note, though, is that the two residential buildings are not going to be the same height. The tower on block 1 (eastern tower) is a few floors taller than the tower on block 185. That's probably a good 40 feet.