I don't recall whether or not this has been posted already in one of the Austin threads, but here's an elevation of 3 Eleven Bowie from Austin Towers. Construction should be starting in a few weeks according to the most recent articles about it:

http://www.austintowers.net/Austin_D...even_bowie.jpg
http://www.austintowers.net/Austin_D...wie-update.php

Wow. Those are the building elevations. I haven't been able to find them yet on the city's website. The site plan file still says "Awaiting update". Those actually show what the building's shape will be.

Try here.

It's the updated one & has the elevations on pages 43 & 44.

That's great. The elevations indicates it'll be 423 feet 3 inches to the mechanical penthouse. That would make it just 3 feet shorter than Spring and 100 feet taller than The Monarch. So it'll make a major impact on the west side of the skyline.

Think EAST Austin

http://thinkeastaustin.com/images/720_render_2.JPG

http://thinkeastaustin.com/images/720_render_1.JPG

http://thinkeastaustin.com/masterplan.html

Great design, but I dislike the "3eleven" on top. Reminds me of 21 rio in west campus.

I kind of like that 3eleven written on the top. :)

Pretty building. I like it.

I updated the OP to add those 3 feet and 3 stories from the plans for 3eleven and added the Trinity Place to the proposed list with the link to the new thread Kevin made. Y'all are becoming experts and finding this stuff on the cities website.

design wise...this is my second favorite of our "new" buildings... behind the fairmont. cant wait to see it finished.

It's one of my favorites as well. It will look really nice situated between Spring and The Monarch.

Speaking of, are there any plans to connect Bowie to the round about they put in on 2nd just East of North Lamar?

There is something of an extension of Bowie between the two apartments on that side of the railroad tracks.

With 3rd being connected all the way through, it would prevent that part of downtown from being toally cut off by the power plant (where 2nd would have a dead-end).

I'd really like to see the city do something there. Would really open up access to the lake area and further connect that corner of downtown (obviously the Green Water Treatment development will do the lions share of that though).

There is but it won't be until the start the Seaholm project. And it will just be for pedestrians not cars. Apparently any sort of interference with rail operations is a major deal. And when they are doing Seaholm they plan on moving the rail road a little and so they are waiting to build the pedestrian under thingie when they do that.

A couple other things being that 3rd isn't going to go all the way through. I don't think they are going to take down the old rail bridge over the creek, they are just going to use the pedestrian bridge next to it and maybe later upgrade the old rail trestle to be usable by the new urban rail that might go by there. On Second they are going to build a bridge over the creek, but it isn't really a good place for cars. It will have a road, but only two lanes like the rest of second. The road will end at the power plant, but pedestrians will be able to go under the plant and emerge on the other side near the railroad and Gables.

Edit: Look here at where the people are coming out under the plant:

http://www.seaholm.info/graphics/seaholmoverview.png

That isn't a tunnel under Seaholm, it is an entry at the middle level of three in the building. Most pedestrians going from the existing 2nd Street to Gables would walk through the Seaholm plaza and down the stairs beside the west entry.

Oh, I could have sworn I saw an entry on the east side where the intersection of 2nd and West will be.

SecretAgent: Do you know when they're going to even breakground? They said it was to be during late July....But still, nothing.

I can't give an exact date, but it will be soon. Probably September.

Ahhh...hope they're not experiencing troubles. I still won't believe it til' I see it.

WTF is this? It looks rather lame, misguided, and ridiculous; a total monoculture. Mixed-use isn't much good if you cut it off from the rest of the city and surround it with a bunch of parking lots and green space. Le sigh...

Also, the rendering looks like a bunch of monopoly houses and that website is just atrocious. Don't mean to sound completely negative, but wow.

I noticed that the two small Union Pacific containers that have long been on the site have been removed. So it looks like UP is handing it over.

Progress on the mixed use project on Rio Grande.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...69486689_n.jpg

What project is that? Is this Callaway House?