Yep, it's U/C. Also here is another building they just completed Called 908 it's on W.21st St. Right in front of the new 6 story building on W.21st & Pearl.

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There is no website for this building as of yet, the image came off google images.

Just saw on KXAN the Waller Creek finalists have been announced.

Here are the Final Four: http://wallercreek.org/finalfour/

Just go to the page that has the four teams and click on one to see its idea

The displays should be up tomorrow! :D

Edit: When looking at the ideas for those teams on the above link, try moving the bottom image. There is a spot at the bottom of each teams idea where there are images that look small. It is below the "Team Concepts" and below that it says "Drag the images below to left/right to view all design concepts." Do that and you can see it better.

Gonna have to see them in person....

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

FINALLY!

http://wallercreek.org/finalfour/

www.cmgsite.com
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www.mvvainc.com/
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www.lakeflato.com www.turenscape.com/english/
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www.teneyckla.com/
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Looks nice and I love the bats in the rendering. Also, does anyone know what the deal is with the "Moon Units" on South 1st? We just moved in across the street and this seems to be a weird place for abandoned lofts. Online it says the were built in 2009 and there are still advertisements for them.

The "Moon Units" are in a trustee's hands because of some crazy litigation between investers and builders. Who knows how long the arbitration will last.

I absolutely love the MVAA/Michael Van Valkenberg design. It seems to have the most bridges and parks. Kind of also obsessed with that beautiful "Palace"
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Wait, no....I am in love with CMG. :D

Man, I don't know, guys. I am really underwhelmed with all of those. I was expecting more urbanism and less park. I really can't see how any of those is any better than any other. They all seem pretty bad.

I think it's a forgone conclusion that Lake|Flato is going to win, though. The city council loves them, for some reason. But their creation of a water park-looking place shows that they really don't know Austin at all. A water park? What's next? A Farris Wheel? So hokey and mundane. No thanks.

I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm going to be disappointed. I guess I would lean toward the CMG one. Their vision for Palm Park is kinda nice.

I totes agree. I do not understand why city council loves Lake|Flato sooo much. Yes, they've done some nice things, but they're KINDA DULL. CMG is my official favorite. I just wish they could add the bridge going across town lake to the CMG proposal.

On the parks subject: Compared to many other cities, Austin does not have a lot of parks.. We need more.

ps. This looks pretty urban to me :tup::tup:
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Is that that Nahua Tower? That angled one near the Mexican Cultural Museum. That building was mentioned as being 400 feet tall.

And it looks like they left out the Hotel Van Zandt. That one is still in the planning stages. it's supposed to be 197 feet tall and be just north of The Shore.

I put the images together to make it easier to look at the pictures from each team and understand where they are pictures of.

Tomorrow I might try to do a thing that puts each teams proposal for each area together and compares them. To kinda see each side by side. Because they are all very different. Like one thing that has the plan for Waterloo Park of each team all side to side, and another that has the lake front park for each side by side, and same of the Convention Center park together.

Note!!: The image is BIG! :)

Groundbreaking imminent for SkyHouse Austin high-rise

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...-skyhouse.html

What's that tall building just north of The Shore? To me it looks like the original rendering for the Hotel Van Zandt when it was supposed to have the condos on top.

BevoLJ that map looks awesome. I like how it gives you detailed images in that 2nd picture.

Rainey is exploding. Skyhouse will really make it even more dense...Royal Blue Grocery has been confirmed as a tenant....but shhhhh.

The Hotel Van Zandt was planned to be immediately north of The Shore. And when I say immediately, I mean the two would be touching. I've seen the site plans for it. They're still planning a 197 foot 16-story hotel. The building in that image is some other project that we haven't heard of. Some of those buildings may be semi-conceptual.

And that's great news about Skyhouse.

I'm going downtown again today to go see the Waller Creek designs at City Hall. I'll take some pictures.

Im gonna go down to see them too today.

Well, I went. I got there too late, though. I did talk to someone, and she said that the images they have at those presentations are basically the same as what they have on the website. I asked if there were any models or anything, and she said no.

The next presentation location is at the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum tomorrow. I'm considering going, but if I did, man that would be 4 days this week that I've rode my bike downtown. I've already logged 63 miles this week!

I did get some nice photos inside of City Hall, though. And I also wondered around the Hilton Convention Center Hotel and Hilton Garden Inn for some photos.

http://www.statesman.com/business/st...e-2464503.html

Whoa. I just noticed the (automobile) bridge over Waller Creek and connecting to Trinity in this rendering. That would be awesome.

It would connect with all of the cool new redevelopments they've got planned on the other side.

I'm still confused as to what bridge that is going over town lake??

That's the future Urban Rail Train connecting the Airport and East Riverside to downtown. Yeah baby!!!

I won't hold my breath :haha: Let's just find a couple billionaires and build a fucking subway line.

Has anybody watched these on Youtube? I think these are pretty awesome and I like how the City of Austin its doing its job to inform the citizens. Unfortunately this video only has 67 views. I wonder if there's an actual TV channel in Austin that shows these.• Video Link

btw thanks Kevin for the tips on how to embed vids!

Yes the city has a local channel that not only shows live city council meetings and other meetings during the week they also show these segments.

JW Marriott Convention Hotel - 408 feet - 34 floors - 1,012 rooms

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They were pouring concrete around those beams.
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And they had more of them piled up on the east side of the block here:
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Gables Park Plaza II - 223 feet - 18 floors - 277 units

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Hyatt Place - 207 feet - 17 floors - 276 rooms

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Whitley - 196 feet - 16 floors - 275 units

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Framework for the mechanical penthouse.
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2400 Nueces - 181 feet - 16 floors - 306 units

It was up to the 13th floor working on the 14th in these.

The crane to the left is for Callaway House.
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Nice pics!

My wife and I were walking by the Hyatt Place the other day and she says, "Wow, that new hotel sure is ugly!"

And that's why I like your wife!

If the Whitley was a few floors taller, this scene could have been used in an AT&T commercial. ;)

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I like the glass on its own but it doesn't work well with the building from a distance imo

Love the density.

The density of that area will really increase when the 1,000 room Marriott goes up. What a zoo Cesar Chavez to East 6th street already is during SXSW and F1. I can only imagine what the area will be like in the future.

Kevin thank you so much for all of the wonderful picture updates!

I was updated some of the construction pictures in the OP List with some of your new ones, and found this kinda funny. The background. Like something is missing? :D

http://www.statesman.com/multimedia/...__1239761c.jpg

I love the density, but I loath looking at the window-less side of the new hotel everyday. I am used to seeing window-less walls in Russia, but why is there one in Austin, facing Congress? I am happy to know that it will be covered up by the J. W. Marriott soon enough.

Lol! Perfect screen name!

That wall is hideous. There is another like it on the west side of Congress too. It is on 5th Street. Like if you are outside Antone's and looking west it is right there on Republic Park.

Apparently if you build right to the property line you can't have windows.

It would be cool if they would paint them or something.

Your City....rocks.
 

Hey Austin Forumers.

I visited Austin for the day on Saturday, and thought you might like an Atlantan's impression of the city.

First of all...the city is much larger than I expected, in terms of general build out. Of course, I keep up with construction via the city, but sometimes you just can't gauge size until you actually see it in person.

We hung out at Handlebar, The Ginger Man, and The Paggi House. All of them were cool.

The number of bars and restaurants (non-chain) was also really impressive. Having been to places like San Antonio, Austin has a distinctly non-Texan, non suburban flair.

Now, apparently we were there during a pride parade, so the number of people hanging around probably numbered in the thousands by 8p. That was really cool to see so many folks out and about.

Walking around town was really easy.

6th St. is rem. of Bourbon St. I'd love to know if Austinites actually hang on 6th or not, as it seems like it might attract lots of folks from out of town.

Generally, the amount of residential either existing or just out of the ground was really impressive. I would argue that you are in the same league as Denver in this category (the amount of res. going up in areas like LODO is very similar).

The only surprising thing in Austin? No streetcars...if there was ever a city that deserved them...it you guys.

I'm looking forward to my next trip to Austin.

Feel free to ask me other questions about my experience in Austin.

There's almost like a love-hate relationship that Austin locals have with 6th St. Or at least that's how I felt about it when I lived there.

I didn't really see it as an area specifically aimed for tourists, but rather for College kids. I didn't hang out in the area too much and most of my friends hated hanging out there... but there are places on 6th St that I considered my favorite places in Austin to go to, like the Jackalope, Lovejoys (now closed), Mekong River, Ritz Alamo Drafthouse, and Casino El Camino.

I personally always told people visiting Austin to always try and visit areas outside of 6th St because I always felt that it would leave a bad impression on them. People outside of 6th St are more friendly, less douchy, and generally cooler. I have a friend here in San Francisco that said when she visited 6th St she felt that people from Austin should probably not take visitors there. She didn't like the fact that it was too "college oriented" and that it was dirty. I thought it was funny as she meant it sort of tongue-in-cheek but I think there's some truth to it.

The thing about 6th is that it is probably the most dense and urban-like area of Austin and probably the most gritty and grimy too. Those things oddly appeal to me. It also has an increasing violent crime rate and probably the most concentrated crime activity in Austin too and having the Arch (Austin Resource Center for Homeless) being close by doesn't help. I always thought it was Austin's version of the Tenderloin. Those are things that the city is trying to work on. There's a proposal to redevelop 6th St, but a lot of people are against it as they feel it might take away what 6th St is about.

Anyways, those are just a few things that I can say about 6th St.

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

We hang at Easy Tiger a lot, mainly because it's next door to the Sabine where we live. But it's a great place. The rest of 6th not quite so much since we don't really hang out in bars, but we do go for food (Driskill, Chupacabra, Casino El Camino). On weekends its flooded with college students, so we usually avoid it then.

We used to have the Dillo. Really miss 'em sometimes.

Eh. . .I think a lot of students hang out there. The problem with 6th St. is it's really single use now - get drunk. Outside of that, I think visitors go, because hey, it's a party. It has almost no destination daytime traffic - only a few office workers seeking a lunch at one of the bars that serves bar food and absolutely zero retail (well, just about zero).

A much more interesting area, and where people I know will go, is just west of Congress and south of 5th in the former warehouse district.

Yes, we checked that area out (west of Congress and south of 5th) and dug it.

Again, I was really impressed with the city. I look forward to my next visit.

Yeah, I checked out that gem on 5th this morning and it certainly is ugly. Congress is one of my favorite streets in Texas, but those two stick out because so many other boring walls such as the Mexic-Arte Museum have become public art spaces. They could at least add a pattern.

6th street is getting something of an upscale resurgence.

Parkside and Midnight Cowboy are really nice for "dirty 6th". I think with Easy Tiger and the Waller Creek revamp a lot of the really awful shot bars may be priced out of the area.

Here's hoping anyway.

Easy tiger
 

E. Austin beer garden named one of the best in the U.S.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...ne-of-the.html
:cool::cool:

There are 2 cranes up now on riverside. I think they are for the same building. It's working on the fifth floor now.

Whitley from the Lamar Plaza Shopping Center. It could have used more height here.

From this afternoon:

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