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I do not like the crown on the Independent. Looks like it is not finished and too thin. No beam across the top?

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Originally Posted by zx14 (Post 8329799)

I do not like the crown on the Independent. Looks like it is not finished and too thin. No beam across the top?

You must really hate it to make this your first post in 6 years. :) It's not real popular in the Austin sub-forum thread for the Independent either.

Just curious any updates on breaking ground on the new approved projects or an honest guess of whether some of the proposed will and when they may start. If all goes as planned the biggest boom yet may appear in the next year or so.

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Yes 2019 will be a big year for development.

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2017 & 2018 were rather slow by Austin standards for big project groundbreakings. Most of the topped out projects broke ground in 2016. But there are some that could still breakground in the 4th Qtr. And 2019 does look like it may be the best year yet for major projects getting underway.

Rainey rising: Plans emerge for 30 stories of offices, apartments in booming district

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A 30-story mixed-use tower could further elevate the rapidly transforming Rainey Street Historic District on the east side of downtown Austin.

The 91 Red River project would bring 347 apartments plus some office space and retail to Red River Street between Davis and Driskell streets in downtown Austin. The site is basically squeezed between The Fairmont and Van Zandt hotels.

City documents outlining the project's current plans indicate the 340-foot tower would contain 348,634 square feet of multifamily space, 72,997 square feet of office space and 10,454 square feet of retail.

The tract, which is zoned Central Business District, sits on a 32,188-square-foot lot.

Endeavor Real Estate Group LLC is the project's developer. Will Marsh, a principal at the Austin-based firm, said Endeavor purchased the property in two parts over the last decade, with the southern half of the property acquired more recently.

"It’s been our intention all along... to assemble that half-block for a high-rise development,” Marsh said Monday.

Marsh declined to disclose the project's potential cost.

Ziegler Cooper Architects is leading the design and Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. is the engineer, according to city documents. Dwg is the landscape architect, according to the Towers blog, which first reported about new renderings of the project.

Marsh said Blum Consulting Engineers Inc. is handling the project's mechanical, electrical and plumbing components, Structural Consultant Associates Inc. is the structural engineer and Rogers-O'Brien Construction Company Ltd. is the general contractor.

The tower would be 30 stories tall under current plans. It would feature eight floors of parking, including a basement garage.

The ground level would feature the retail space, as well as residential and office lobbies. Above the parking, plans call for three floors of leasable office space topped by apartments and amenity lounges.

The development team is seeking additional entitlements to raise the floor-to-area ratio under the city's downtown density bonus program. The Austin Design Commission is scheduled to review the project at a Monday night meeting for compliance with the city's Urban Design Guidelines.

A working group of commissioners concluded that the project was substantially compliant with those guidelines, but noted concerns about "possible traffic impact on already congested thoroughfares and sound mitigation for tenants."

After the full Design Commission reviews the project, the city's Planning & Zoning Department can approve or deny the density bonus request.

Marsh said they hope to break ground at the end of this year or the "very beginning" of next year.

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51-story condo tower planned for Rainey district

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A new-to-town developer is making a splashy Austin debut. Vancouver-based Intracorp, which last month named longtime Austinite Brad Stein as its managing director of Austin operations, is planning a 51-story condominium tower at 44 East Ave.

The 545-foot-tall, 460,000-square-foot building will rise about 20 stories higher than the tallest existing or currently planned buildings in the Rainey Street area.

Downtown Austin’s Frost Bank Tower, for comparison’s sake, is 516 feet tall.

Construction on the project – the first of several Stein said Intracorp envisions in Central Austin – will start early next year, with completion scheduled for fall 2022.

Intracorp did not reveal a price tag for the project.

The tower, which will take the place of a three-story office building constructed in 1983, will have 330 condos – a mix of one- and two-bedroom efficiencies, as well as larger one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom condos. Prices will be announced at a later date.

Lead architect for the 51-story tower is Page Architects.

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Well this ^^^^^^^ was quite a pleasant surprise!

Ooooh, I like it! I wonder where "Rainey Street" will move to once Rainey Street is all high-rises though.

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer (Post 8334666)

51-story condo tower planned for Rainey district

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Beautiful site!

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer (Post 8334666)

51-story condo tower planned for Rainey district

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Which one is it? the tall one on the right? that has got to be more than 545 feet...

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Originally Posted by The Best Forumer (Post 8337207)

Which one is it? the tall one on the right? that has got to be more than 545 feet...

That's the one. Elevations haven't been released. So the 545' number could be the roof and not counting the mechanical. IF that was the case, this would be about 560'.

I hadn't even considered that. I rarely take renderings for granted as being really accurate at showing the scale.

And yeah, it could be taller than 545 feet. There's been a trend lately of building heights being released here and there with them only counting the main roof, and omitting the mechanical roofs. So, it could be a bit taller up to that mechanical roof.

It is taller. The architect says it's 580'

https://www.pagethink.com/v/project-...ast-Avenue/ep/

Old 1925 landmark hotel to be razed to make way for the Guadalupe Tower.

https://austin.towers.net/in-loving-...y-alamo-hotel/

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Originally Posted by DFW (Post 8338554)

Old 1925 landmark hotel to be razed to make way for the Guadalupe Tower.

https://austin.towers.net/in-loving-...y-alamo-hotel/

No. The Alamo Hotel was torn down in 1984 (the photo in the article you posted shows the demo starting) to make way for an office tower in the 80s. That office tower never happened, and the lot sat vacant for years before a hotel was built in 2000. It's that hotel, the one that was built in 2000, that is being torn down for the Guadalupe tower. I agree that the wording is a bit confusing, but that hotel hasn't stood on that lot in over 3 decades.

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Originally Posted by DFW (Post 8338554)

Old 1925 landmark hotel to be razed to make way for the Guadalupe Tower.

https://austin.towers.net/in-loving-...y-alamo-hotel/

Um... The Alamo was razed over 30 years ago. The hotel being demolished is a suburban looking Extended Stay that replaced the Alamo about 20 years ago.

This is what was replacing the Alamo Hotel in about 1985, but the project fell through after the bank had some financial troubles, and was eventually bought out.

The office tower's garage (across the street from the tower) would have replaced the Alamo Hotel. The site of this office tower today is where 300 West Sixth is, another office tower that was completed in 2002.

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