For reference: https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=199758

This is just the Statesman property. The other tracts south of it to Riverside will soon also be in play.

^ Amazing. I hope some level of that comes to fruition.

Waterline (98 Red River)

It’s hard to imagine a super tall there in the future!

It's also one of the few big cities without a freeway along the river making it very attractive/walkable and pleasant.

Relatively few cities have freeways that separate their urban core from their primary water frontage (which is a trope)

St. Louis, Kansas City, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Phoenix, Tampa, and Sacramento.

And of those that have dismantled freeways, only San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle really count.

Cities which engage well with their water frontages beyond the above three: San Diego, Austin, Nashville, Miami, Baton Rouge, Memphis, Omaha, Houston, San Antonio, Columbus, Indianapolis, New York City, Chicago, Boston, Providence, Syracuse, Rochester, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Jacksonville, Baltimore, D.C., Philadelphia, Detroit, Denver, Albuquerque, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, among many others including most medium and small cities.

There are few other offenders, but they mostly have industrial along their primary waterfronts (rather than a freeway).

Stream Realty Unveils Plans For Six-Story, High-End Office in East Austin

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“highly sought-after, last major developable block in core East Austin“

???

Railyard (ATX Towers)

The latest concept for the mixed-use development.

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The city of towers continues to add to it's bounty! Nice looking buildings in the renderings.

Railyard, seriously? I get it's a concept name but it makes no sense in any dimension with downtown Austin. That is unless they're trying to count the light rail line nearby that is a reach in itself.

This uses to be the site of Austin’s industrial rail yard when Austin was first connected to the national rail system, which is why the commuter rail line (not light rail) dead ends where it does.

The light rail system - which is currently in design - will also have a station - within a block of the building when it is completed.

Eh, feels somewhat underwhelming compared to the original concept.
Then again, said original concept and all the talk of a potential supertall there may have made me rather spoiled to begin with. :P

I'm fairly certain this is an old proposal. It is all of blocks 16 and 32, and not all of the two half blocks of the Railyard Condos site. See the dedicated thread in the Austin section for more.

I hope you're right. I don't know what it is but so many of these Austin projects are just ugly. Is this what buildings look like now? :haha:

Correct. Karlin does not own the properties on which these towers sit (due west of the current convention center). In fact, several towers are already working through the entitlement process on the properties where these sit. None, currently, have an association with Karlin.

I think most of the projects have been great looking, except for the supertall (uuuglyy).

I like the railroad yard towers, modern and futuristic to me.

Yeah they definitely go hard. (Gotta be hip and use the lingo)
They'll make for a nice skyline shi....;)

Transforming Brodie Oaks From Shopping Center to City in South Austin

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