We know about "Scion" brand possibility now obviously. But not when I posted the news.

A Trump hotel for Austin, I heard it's going to have all the design elements of architect Adolf Eichmann!

3rd & Colorado Residential
 

We've been following this one, but now that the elevations have been released to the public it needs a thread.

https://www.austintexas.gov/devrevie...erRSN=11611043
Site plan link/elevations:

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...tial_PLANS.pdf

South elevation:

http://i.imgur.com/H8ejgN8.jpg
ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...tial_PLANS.pdf

The site today:

http://i.imgur.com/AUD7mJ1.png

austintowers.net has some aerial massing renderings showing its place.

http://austin.towers.net/39-story-re...-3rd-colorado/

Sunset
 

Wow that's stunning!

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/ne...ice-tower.html
http://i.imgur.com/uEWNqWM.jpg

11/22

500 West 2nd

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cx6W-8zUAAIwF-s.jpg:large
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ATXRising?src=hash

Aloft Austin & Element Hotel Downtown

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cx6Vp_NUUAApcaX.jpg
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ATXRising?src=hash

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cx6Vp_NVIAA7xAn.jpg
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ATXRising?src=hash

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cx6Vp_KUsAApvRW.jpg
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ATXRising?src=hash

Amazing photos! The Aloft looks fantastic!

So, the New Central Library was slated to have a grand opening this month. Curious about that, I just checked the website and now it says May 2017. Sighhhh. This construction project has been atrocious with delay after delay. The groundbreaking was in May of 2013! In what universe is it acceptable for a building this small to take 4 years to build? :yuck::hell::???:

Weird, but it does look really nice, glad it's wrapping up.

Looks like Austin will get a "City Target", I have been to the one in Pittsburgh and loved it.

https://s13.postimg.org/lfw9b1exj/CI...GET_AUSTIN.jpg
http://www.statesman.com/business/ta...fUjnPeE0w5p2O/

That's a great location also for the first of this type of store. It'll prove successful, I'm sure - and hopefully be an example for other neighborhoods as they develop.

Okay, so I'm gonna take a contrarian position and say that existing properties that already exhibit great street level interaction should be privileged slightly from redevelopment. I wonder if city officials could build an incentive to develop parking lots rather than existing structures into code? Say, an additional density bonus for lots that are currently non-structure impervious cover? That way, all else equal, development would be slightly redirected to empty lots.

That being said, I'm sure the replacement will be a hell of a lot better than what's there now, even if we loose a little bit of charm.

I would love to see Target close the dreadful store off i35 near Mueller, and build a new "City" target in the Mueller development with a parking garage.

I agree with this.

I also think they should build a city target in the East Riverside corridor.

Those are the three urban-izing areas in the city where that business model makes sense.

Independent Condo tower at 7th floor, 51 to go.

From The Independent FB page:

https://s15.postimg.org/kzottrxwb/15...36027139_n.jpg]

7th floor.

Government. Zero profit, so no one cares.

17-story apartment tower rising near UT campus

http://www.mystatesman.com/rf/image_...9.34.30-PM.jpg

Man, it seems that West Campus has never slowed down.