Which will be the next highrise to break ground?? Seems like there are 3 viable options, the one on Rainey, Seaholm or 5th and Bowie. Hopefully at least one of them will be before the end of the year. If so we could definately say it was a good year.

My guess is Skyhouse. Wasn't it already supposed to start?

My guess is 3 Eleven Bowie. One of the last articles about it in the Statesman said they had the equity and expected to start construction in September. Then again, developers seem to have their own calendars that have 24 months or something in them.

Seaholm is still doing some planning I think. I was told they'd submit their site plan sometime in the fall, so hopefully in the next month they'll do that.

SkyHouse has submitted their site plan and is awaiting update.

3rd & Colorado is the same, awaiting update.

3 Eleven Bowie's site plan is in review.

I've been checking those almost daily. When they approved and released the site plan for the JW Marriott, it was announced a few days later by the American-Statesman that it would break ground.

I noticed last week that there were traffic barriers sitting in the middle of the 7Rio site. I was just looking up there from 6th and Rio Grande so I'm not sure what it was all about. Has 7Rio ever showed plans for the apartment version of the tower? I don't remember seeing them.

Yes, 253 feet with 24 floors according to the site plan.

Revised site plan for this project here (Submitted October 25, 2011)

If it doesn't load the first time, just refresh the page.

You can scroll down to pages 15 & 16 for the elevations.

Y'all are all over those site plans. :P I wish I knew how they worked.

Someone should make a thread in the Austin section and do a list that you keep updated. Somewhere that everyone can go to be able to find those site plans easily with links to check for new updates or new elevations plans or the like.

If anyone wanted to find the site plans for the High-rise projects and list them, Kevin or I can edit the links into the OP List for this thread.

Edit: I updated the OP and added links for the "Transformation of South Lamar" and "North Burnet/Gateway Projects" threads.

Seaholm site plan has already been submitted, and is close to being approved. In fact they already have the site demolition and excavation permit, but are waiting on some other paperwork to be finalized before starting.

Waterloo Tower
 

ABJ reports a new tower called "Waterloo Tower" is in the works for 12th and Red River where Brick Oven Pizza is. I may be off on my math here, but it looks like they need a 14:1 FAR based on the site and proposed square footage

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/pr...thing-big.html

YNN is running a story tonight on the the Waterloo Tower. The tower proposal goes to the City Council for approval on 09/27, (The Planning Commission has already approved it.) and it should be anywhere between 20 to 40 stories.

Here is the article.

http://austin.ynn.com/content/local_...vertical-again

My first thought? "Isn't that like solidly in the Capitol View Corridor?" Looked at a map and I guess not. It seems to stop at Red River, for some reason.

http://i.imgur.com/lTGm6.jpg

Even if this gets built at only 20 stories it will be all alone at that spot. At 40 stories it would stick out as much as the Planetarium tower would.

Nearly a third of $1.2 billion from recent Austin bond elections remains unspent

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/...m-2449938.html

HID Global to build new Austin distribution center, create 276 jobs

http://impactnews.com/articles/hid-g...reate-276-jobs

Some shots from around downtown this afternoon. First site prep for the JW Marriott is well under way.

http://i.imgur.com/pk3e5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XIEIB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/n1D5a.jpg

The Whitley tower seems to be pretty much topped out.

http://i.imgur.com/Zk2KK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/B53Jo.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uz4Y4.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/7TIEf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tiiEc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KnKAn.jpg

Site prep has started for the IBC Bank building.

http://i.imgur.com/3rrov.jpg

Nice update. I'm glad to see the IBC Bank Plaza starting. I was by there a week ago and they hadn't started yet. I don't even think they had the fencing up yet.

GM creates Austin technology center

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...omputer_c.html

UpleThis likely has a lot to do with the new racetrack. Look for more companies like this to move into the Austin area over the next couple of years.

Coming this Sunday: Downtown's booming tech industry

(Video)

http://www.statesman.com/news/coming...y-2452871.html

...and possible the Pecan Street Project.

That was in the news here in Detroit too. Austin is becoming some kind of super economic insane freak show. There are probably a dozen other cities around the country which could play host to such a facility, but nope they picked Austin instead. Austin is like a Texas' version of San Francisco and Silicon Valley combined. :haha:

General Motors already has a huge call center at MetCenter in Southeast Austin - 300,000 square feet. They've been there for years. This new Innovation Center they just announced today is going to be located here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/103701367/Pa...r%208-2012.pdf

That is the old Dell Financial buiding that has been vacant for a year or two. It just sold to a Los Angeles investor in July. GM signed a lease for the entire building for their new Innovation Center. Details will probably be in tomorrow's paper. CBRE was holding off announcing the deal because GM was going to chase some city/state incentives, however, it appears they ran out of time. The city and state are not going to offer you incentives if you've already signed a lease and are committed to be here anyway. ;)

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

^From that article.

I really hate this. I remember M1EK always saying we need rail service into downtown from the outlying areas or downtown will fail as a commercial office district. Even as a residential district it won't work until we have adequate rail transportation to those outlying areas because if these companies aren't downtown, but their workers live downtown, they'll still have to commute, just in the opposite direction.

http://www.statesman.com/business/ev...inglePage=true
Some start dates from the article:

3 Eleven Bowie - 3rd quarter 2012

Austin Energy Site - 2014 to 2015

Colorado & Third - Late 2012

Fairmont Austin - Spring 2013

GreenWater - Early 2013

IBC Bank Plaza - December 2012

Planetarium & Residential Tower - Late 2014

Rainey Center - Undetermined

Seaholm - Late 2012

SkyHouse Austin - Within the next 2 weeks

Whole Foods expansion - Late 2013


The article also mentions two residential towers that are to be announced soon by developers. I would imagine those are the Trinity Place and Waterloo Park Tower.

So it looks like we will have 5 new towers U/C before the year ends, thats if everything goes as plan.

I wish I could do a time lapse of the entire skyline starting from now till all these buildings take place. Just take a photo a day... it would be awesome to see that unfold.

9/2
 

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8169/7...6b48fed7_b.jpg

Sorry for the sun flare on this one.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8307/7...9a9681b3_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8459/7...81d6d39c_b.jpg

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

http://www.statesman.com/business/fr...s-2454486.html

White Lodging plans 300-room hotel in downtown Austin

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte..._business_blog

So they are just finishing one 300 room hotel. Just started construction on a 1,000 + room hotel. And now are starting planning on another 300 room hotel?

That is a great location right there. And empty lot @ 5th and SJ. Not many empty lots left around town anymore.

KB Home plans community on 330 acres in Leander

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...330-acres.html

It's one after another... :haha:

Last I checked, which was just now, Lakeline Blvd and 2243 never intersect...

So that should be about the same size and height of Hyatt Place since the lot sizes and number of rooms for both are the same. So likely another ~15-story 200 foot hotel.

That's good, too. That area of the skyline could use some height and filling in.

This says it is being built on the extension of Lakeline. http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...re-Mason-Ranch

Below is a piece on the extension.

http://impactnews.com/downloads/7944...1202-01-1m.jpg
http://impactnews.com/articles/lakel...moving-forward

Anyway, just more sprawl.

Updates to the OP List:

Added the 5th & San Jacinto Hotel to the proposed list. I just guessed at some heights based on the Hyatt they are building now a few blocks south. Kevin do you want to make a thread for it yet or wait until there is more info on it? One article said they plan to announce more info in the next 30 days, so should be a quick wait. :)

Removed the new Cirrus HQ building from the U/C list as they just finished it and are moving in.

*fixed some random formatting that had been messed up during summer updates*

I already made one in the Austin section. There was another article on it from the Business Journal.

Oh. Lol. I should know better than to ask before looking by now. I think that is like the third time I have done that and you already had a thread up. :P

Edit: I added the link in the OP.

The article actually said apartment towers. I could see Trinity Place as a possibility, but Waterloo Park Tower is supposed to be mixed use with medical offices, commercial offices and condos. I wonder if one of the other apartment towers that will be announced soon is the one we've heard about, but never seen renderings for that's in the same block as 7th & Rio Grande.

We've seen the elevations for 7th & Rio Grande, which was originally supposed to be condos, but now apartments. There was that other one, though and I think it was associated with Ron Thrower Designs and was also on the city's latest emerging projects poster. IIRC the address for the Ron Thrower one was 701-711 West Seventh.

Yeah, I noticed a crew out there recently doing some test drilling. Wondered if something was afoot.

My thoughts were the same when I saw a few people on the site about a month ago, also in a few days they should be releasing the concepts of the 4 finalist for the Waller Creek project. :)

The block on 26th

http://www.enincorporated.com/wp-con...1-1024x685.jpg

Another project going up in the UT area.

http://www.enincorporated.com/the-block-on-26th-2

Does anyone know where that's located?

W. 26th & Pearl St. north of West Campus.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ba...ed=0CC8Q8gEwAA

Has that started construction yet? It's been in the planning stages since 2008. The address is 900 West 26th Street. It's that vacant lot at the end of Pearl Street north of West 26th Street.

According to the site plan, it's 90 feet tall. That lot is allowed 120 feet.

Here's the Site plan.

Not that looks bad and infill is nice, but it's funny how new urban buildings in Texas cities often look like someone used a super-size-me laser on a standard suburban apartment complex building and wrapped it around a parking deck.

Again, not a bad thing, it's just kind of funny.