Someone has ADHD. ;)

Subforums with dedicated building threads are highly logical when you live in a place like Austin that is so busy that it's making the nimbys cry at night, even if this mysterious place called "Manila" one ups us every once in a while.

Block 24 Condominiums:

http://i.imgur.com/tJOrXTj.jpg
http://www.rhodepartners.com/#profile



Take that, Manila.

Ahhhh snap son! This forum just got real! Rhode partners all up in this beyotch!

Ja ja ja jenga

The building also now has a name. It's being called "The Independent".

It has a website and Facebook page now, too.

http://www.independentaustin.com/

https://www.facebook.com/independentaustin

A few more massing models from the website.

http://i.imgur.com/uWhFhuC.jpg
http://www.independentaustin.com/

http://i.imgur.com/z1mGURc.jpg
http://www.independentaustin.com/

Aerial drone photos showing what the views will be like from the 60th floor.

http://i.imgur.com/LIJmPfy.jpg
http://www.independentaustin.com/

http://i.imgur.com/WrbpPFV.jpg
http://www.independentaustin.com/

http://i.imgur.com/3Mw646x.jpg
http://www.independentaustin.com/

The Independent
 

Wow, nice. All the best to them. That website has some of the best views of some of the construction downtown that I've seen in a while. http://www.independentaustin.com/views/

Here's my latest list of Austin's tallest active projects. As in my previous lists the highlighted projects are either U/C or have had their official ground breaking with financing in place.

Number three on the list will be a new tallest at ~750', but I don't have a documented height or floor count even though it appears to be 61-stories. So I left it as number three.

The ~35-40-story I-35 & 12th St. residential tower doesn't have a documented floor count or height available. So I left that one off the list for now.

There are several more buildings in the works that are at least 100', but I left those off the list as well because I don't have any document heights for them.

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...20-14Page1.png
http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...20-14Page2.png

Thanks HC. I updated your list in the threads first post.

One of these days I will need to update my picture at the top of that, but I always think to myself "once this building is finished..." *another building starts* "Ok, once THIS building is finished..." *another building starts* ... and on and on. lol

Great listing, HC!

Is 70 Rainey now being pegged at ~35 stories? I have documentation outlining a 31-story, 380' tower.

Didn't the original developer (Riverside Resources) sell this property to another group recently? I think I heard/read that somewhere. I also think the new group may be interested in, looking into the possibility of, increasing the number of levels as well?!?

A New York group (Fremont) bought it and are trying to increase the height to 35-stories.

The skyline looks great now but when these are built it'll really be smoking. It'll surpass Charlotte soon if not already.

I don't worry about or get into personal competitions with other city's skylines becasue every city developes differently. But if all of the U/C and proposed projects get built the skyline will literally more than double in size in five years. That's is really hard to grasp considering it has already done that since the early 2000s.

It'll be awhile before we surpass Charlotte. Charlotte has a lot of construction activity as well, and they have a huge head start against us as seen below.

Height Range - Charlotte # - Austin #

Completed (inc. JW, Colorado Tower, & Bowie):

800-900 - 1 - 0
700-800 - 1 - 0
600-700 - 2 - 1
500-600 - 2 - 2
400-500 - 7 - 5
300-400 - 10 - 16

Austin has a bunch of 400 foot roof buildings (I include Fairmont here despite the "spire") in the works and under construction, as well as a perhaps 700+ building and an unknown height building that'll be substantial. Charlotte, however, also has a good number of tall buildings in the works. 201 Trade, for instance, is 601'. Other 300'+ projects include the Bearden, Skyhouse #2, 300 South Tryon, Tryon Place, etc. They don't have as many projects certainly, but because they're starting from such a higher baseline with their current tall builds and because their skyline is more clustered and tight knit, it's visually more striking. Austin has a lot of empty spots to fill and needs substantially more height (I.E. we need a tower in the 700-800 foot range (fingers crossed with the Independent) and the 800-900 foot range (I'd love for the development just south of the Fairmont to be consolidated into a single building for height, but that's obviously not going to happen) before it catches Charlotte.

You're right and great points!

Some photos of the Seaholm and Green Water developments taken today.

http://i.imgur.com/zFN6KY7.jpg

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

http://i.imgur.com/ALbb2nt.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1RuDQlP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rvP4hAy.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/j17RWR1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/5rQCVwB.jpg

I'm currently in talks with a bunch of 'advanced computer Star Trek types' to hash out plans for a mass campaign for all these two million Filipino Americans to visit the Manila Development Thread, so get used to seeing it at the top of the list more often! :d

Christmas Day

http://i.imgur.com/muY79h7.jpg

The sight of all of those cranes is simply awesome!

There's going to be a lot more than that. The boom is just getting started based on all of the proposals and recently started projects that don't have cranes up yet. :cheers:

Happy birthday Austin!!!! On Dec, 27th The city of Austin was founded 175 years ago.