If you mean site plan in the general sense, the Seaholm site plan is on their website http://www.seaholm.info/html/renderingsvert.html and also included in Stream's marketing flyer: http://www.streamrealty.com/pdfs/pro...0Brochures.pdf

If you mean construction drawings, which most people think of as blueprints and include specs and elevations as well as floorplans, I don't know that they've been officially filed for either Seaholm or Green Water yet.

By the way, that flyer above has a bunch of renderings that I haven't seen posted on the forums (I could have missed them). I captured a few of the renderings below, but there are more in the flyer, along with floorplans and other info.

http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8ac4c5e4.jpg

http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4e02ee54.jpg

http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/...pse88a5e0b.jpg

http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/...ps17d2c126.jpg

http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6dc6a6d8.jpg

Yeah, I'm talking about the blueprints/building elevations. Someone with the City of Austin told me the residential tower would be 314 feet tall, but that height was only to the main roof. So unless the building has a flat roof, it should be taller than that.

The tallest height I've seen mentioned for it was 393 feet, but I haven't seen any renderings that suggest it's that tall.

And we had seen that design shown above, but not that last rendering.

Wow, thanks for those images, AusTxDevelopment. I hadn't seen those before. Both the library and Seaholm are so frenetic. That whole area, really, will be a little bit hodgepodge, a little bit of a patchwork. But I think it could pay off in the end. The complexity of the design and arrangement could make for a pretty neat place. I just hope it still goes forward. I'm hoping the delay is due to the fact that applications are still pending. But if that's the case then our government is dangerously holding up some very important projects and that idea is a little disconcerting.

Wouldn't have happened. Luckily we have a world class facility that attracts multiple events now because of F1.

Also lets not forget they have plans to expand sporting events at the Circuit including a possible new soccer stadium. That could also help our prospects.

Though us winning the Olympics is unlikely, its nice that we were asked at all, I am assuming this is the first time Austin was considered.

I agree. I think that area just east of Lamar could be the nicest in downtown if these projects ever see the light of day.

Here's some renderings of Capitol Ridge, a proposed office building that Riverside Resources plans to build behind Palisades West just northwest of the Bee Caves/Loop 360 intersection.

This is the front that faces downtown:

http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/...psf074ed96.jpg

This is the back that faces the hill country:

http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/...psb46bd5f5.jpg

This is the location map:

http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3e691025.jpg

Easy champ, I was just trying to highlight how even cities within the same state compete.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/pr...city-hall.html

I loved Green Water ever since last year's renders were released, so I'd be disappointed if that were the case. Though, maybe if it is delayed, it'll be redesigned and they'll go taller. A guy can dream... :P After seeing these latest renders of Seaholm though, it looks like it'll be a great project. My concern all along was that the tower would come off too generic-looking and unremarkable, but the offset linear elements (balconies) on the facade give me confidence it'll be unique. Throw in the Central Library and the landmark power building with the "CITY OF AUSTIN" sign (that I'm praying will be lit up), and this will be a fantastic and special gathering place. I'm game :tup:

According to the Mueller Facebook page, this is parking garage construction, after all.

The finally crane has arrived at 311 Bowie. They have 3 sections parked out in front of the Spring and finally got to touch one of the sections as well.

You got to touch one? Awesome. What was it like. :)

http://www.statesman.com/news/busine...nt-supp/nWWgN/

It was awesome...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8378/8...046e97ce_b.jpg

Downtown looked amazing tonight. Hope someone was able to get some photos.

It did look amazing. I was down there. No pictures, though. It was so alive. Driving by the Rainey Street District on 35, SkyHouse looks huge. It's 11 stories already. Whitley looked amazing, too. I dare say it's a week or two from being finished.

These are from 2/15. It was at 9 floors then, but just 6 days later they had 2 more floors up with the columns for the 12th started. It's crazy that this thing is halfway topped out. They were still playing in the dirt at the beginning of October. At this rate it'll be topped out by mid/late June.

From I-35:

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

http://i.imgur.com/9qXZi47.jpg

The second crane at 3Eleven is up.

Viewing from the JWMarriott cam looks like they have cleared the parking lot for the new Westin Hotel......

Oh wow. They sure have. They have those orange and white barricades up around the site. I still haven't seen the building elevations for it, though. At 17 floors it'll probably be the same height as Hyatt Place.

Look just above the roofline of Whitley.
http://oxblue.com/open/tournee/jwmarriottaustin

That's 7 construction sites that have been visible in that view.

Hampton Inn University Area
JW Marriott
Hyatt Place
Whitley
Callaway House
3rd & Colorado
Westin Hotel

It would have been 9 if the 416 Congress Hotel and Austin Hotel hotels had happened.

Hmm, I have a kind of icky feeling about this development now.

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/m...e-audit/nWbKm/

I mentioned this on some other thread, but you can also see the rooftop lounge being built atop the old Spaghetti Warehouse too.

Not sure if anyone was aware, but there is an OxBlue Construction camera for Skyhouse Austin at: oxblue.com/open/SkyHouseApartments. Looks like the wind blew it off target a bit this past Monday!

Some pics from today of the JW Marriott site.

What would the quarter sized tower crane base like thing be in this pic. Maybe a small crane to come?
http://i1323.photobucket.com/albums/...psa669384d.jpg

http://i1323.photobucket.com/albums/...ps82848eef.jpg

http://i1323.photobucket.com/albums/...ps96ce6a6e.jpg

http://i1323.photobucket.com/albums/...ps814ce66b.jpg

Looks like we were both there around the same time today. I posted my pics here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=184 I was wondering about that small crane base as well.

I emailed the developer yesterday. Here was his response. This is the same guy who got me the heights for the JW Marriott and Hyatt Place Hotels.

Also an update on the Rainey Gateway Center. This is the twin tower project that was announced with 50 floors each.

It's crazy to go from twin 50-story towers to one 8 story building.... but as long as it's designed with great ground floor retail then I am still excited.

I usually am for one to go for density over worrying so much about height, especially when it comes to getting rid of surface parking lots. However, a lot with no CVC building at 8 floors is silly. I hope another developer gets the property.

Apartment project with affordable rents planned for South Austin Goodwill site

http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/l...lrendering.jpg

http://www.statesman.com/news/busine...nned-fo/nWcCM/

16-story Hotel Van Zandt (Kimpton) to start construction in June.

50-story Fairmont Hotel to start construction in October.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...-to-break.html

Best news I could've read! Besides seaholm and green breaking ground......
Headed from Seattle to Portland today! Gonna be comparing both cities. Have a good day, y'all :)

Looks like the Fairmont keeps getting pushed back. I have serious doubts whether or not this hotel will ever break ground......I'd give it a 40% chance.....

Probably for a concrete boom tower.

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but there seems to be a 6 month rule when it comes to "breaking ground". If you announce you are breaking ground in less than 6 months, it is means it's going to happen bar something major. I have started dreading the 6+ month groundbreaking because it seems to be the kiss of death to projects. It sounds like Van Zandt is happening and Fairmont being continually pushed back is not a good sign. Anything post summer worries me.

Seeming interminable delays are, I'm guessing, the rule and not the exception.

I will say this after reading more about the announcement by Fairmont, I may have been too judgemental. Reading the tea leaves, it sounds more than anything like they are giving a ~year of space between the opening of the Marriott and the Fairmont.

Where are you getting that idea? They just said they're starting construction in October. I wish y'all wouldn't be so pessimistic. I'm very optimistic about this project. Downtown Austin is only going to get more attractive by then. Plenty of projects should be underway by then.

It's obviously speculation, but it seems many of the projects over the last few years that posted groundbreaking dates that far out never happened. However as I said in my last post, after reading additional statements from the developers, I don't think it may mean anything bad in this case.

I have been a bit pessimistic lately because of the government killing the planetarium, seaholm and green seeming to be on life support, and 3rd and Colorado on a deadline to fill tenants or it will be on life support as well. These are mine and probably most other's favorite projects and I am increasingly concerned they won't happen.

Yah, I am in the same boat. I think it's ridiculous that they all make these announcements and NOTHING ever happens. It's getting really old.
PS. Does it mean anything that Manchester went public days after JW is in a lil tiff with worker payments? Could JW stop construction?

He's getting that idea from the article which states:

A short distance away at Red River and Cesar Chavez streets, Manchester Texas Financial Group LLC is planning to break ground in October on the Fairmont Austin, a 50-story, 1,000-room hotel that will be the second highest building in the city behind The Austonian condominiums.

It’s scheduled to open in June 2016, about a year after the 34-story, 1,000-room JW Marriott is delivered.

I personally think that's a good plan. Look at all the condos that have been built downtown. They weren't completed all at the same time. They had staggered opening dates so the market would have time to absorb all the units. I think if you had two huge convention center hotels open within months of each other, it would be too many rooms all at once.

And for the pessimists in this thread (not you, Syndic) I also liked Manchester's comments about Austin at the end of the article:

I'm not worried. Heck, the Hotel Van Zandt is a project that was first announced in 2006. If anything the delay is because of the slow permitting process which was noted as being 3 to 6 months in one recent article. And actually, it seems like most projects break ground in either Spring or Fall. The Marriott broke ground in Fall, Frost did, too. My guess is it's because of our climate.

That's a scary prospect, but I think they're bluffing. The idea that they were only going to build the hotel with the $3.8 million fee waiver is probably BS. And the city government would likely cave on the wage requirement since corrupt jackass Rudy Garza (he's the guy who got his own business designated a minority-owned business, thus giving it special benefits) unilaterally gave White Lodging the go-ahead and he represented the city. So I'd say there's very little chance that construction on the JW Marriott will stop.

$3.8 million is a drop in the bucket. That won't stop construction, I don't think.

Here's an article from Community Impact that sums up the downtown hotel boom pretty well. Although there's nothing new for those who follow Austin closely:

http://impactnews.com/articles/sizab...2%80%99s-core/

Here's a good picture of the JW Marriott site from that same article:

http://impactnews.com/downloads/1620...3-02-01-1f.jpg

So I'm guessing those two square things are the elevator shafts, right near the entrance? The tower portion is going to be pretty slender on the eastern side. This construction is moving along pretty quickly, too, for its size. Pretty soon it's going to be above ground level. Then it's just up, up, up. :cheers:

On Manchester I agree as I thought about it more after my initial comment. I am still worried about 3rd and Colorado and the whole Seaholm project.

http://www.statesman.com/news/busine...owntown/nWd7L/

Was reading that article this am.
Ends with a great quote by "Mindy Ellmer" about obstructed views. It's the realistic "view".

I guess I'm just being greedy. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine Austin would ever get a 1000+ room hotel. Having lived here my entire life it truly is amazing how things have changed and will continue to change.

Apparently, there's some SXSW event at the Whitley. http://hypem.com/hotel/

Their Facebook page says that some residents have already moved in. But it looks like they're going to get the road finished just in the nick of time. It's still blocked off at the moment, with only 4 days to go.