I'm agreeing with you... I don't know why anyone would say 29, either, just like you were confused with the previous poster. It clearly has 33 stories.

So how tall do we think it will be? 300'-350'

29 was just a miss-count. I forgot to add in the four floors on the bottom (plinth/podium?).

In the renderings it seems to be about as tall as the Stephen F. Austin Hotel and Littlefield Buildings combined. I even measured it out and marked it with a sheet of paper. Those two combined is 335 feet. I had thought it would be a little taller, though. Remember, the JW Marriott has only one floor more and is 408 feet, though, a good chunk of that is its mechanical penthouse since it's only 374 feet to the main roof. Either way, it'll be the tallest building in Austin north of the One American Center.

If built...it will most likely be in the 330' to 360' range (or roughly an average of 10'-11' per occupied level).

The Bowie 3/25

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5217/...01cbe746_b.jpg

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2893/...5d976c67_b.jpg

That skyline is looking very solid.

For real! So many of the gaps in the skyline have either been filled in or will soon be filled in. Awesome!

Now the skyline just needs some depth to it instead of just a line of buildings by the lake.

This is amazing

At first, I was like "aw, this is weird, I don't like it" due to the awkward winding shape of it and the angle that it comes out of Sandra Muraida Way (why not come out at the middle instead all the way to the right like that?), but as I went on, I started to like it more and more.

For one thing, the stairway up to the street at the corner of 3rd and Seaholm Dr. is going to go a long way toward establishing real connectivity. Secondly, the funky design they're going to put in the pathway (with three different types of concrete) is really cool:

http://i.imgur.com/Xnc4utB.jpg

Third, they're going to be using a lot of cool decorative elements like these granite bat designs in (on?) the walls...

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

...and concrete blocks with guitar designs on them, and fence paneling that looks like piano keys:

http://i.imgur.com/7AnTDoi.jpg

On top of that, I think the excavating and landscaping will look really good (in about 10 years when the trees are fully grown). Maybe the whole thing is corny but I'm a sucker for cheesy Austin-themed crap like this. We have certain themes we identify with Austin, so we might as well accentuate them.

3/18
 

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Major League Soccer and urban rail take Austin by storm
 

By Michael King, Fri., March 28, 2014
Austin Chronicle

From an embargoed press release, dated April 1, the Chronicle has learned that the city of Austin is about to announce the construction of a new soccer stadium in the middle of the Colorado River – a project which will also provide the missing link in a new urban rail line serving the entire Central Texas area.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/...-soccer-train/

That was an entertaining read! The Chronicle is having some April Fool's Day fun. :haha:

:slob:

Check out the gap the Colorado Tower will fill. Green Water (4 towers) and the Seaholm Residences will just re-enforce what's already there. 99 Trinity Tower and Waller Park Place (3 towers) will show up here.

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Austin American-Statesman - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

Nice picture Kevin! Our skyline is going to look fabulous once all these major project get complete. Also it's going to be interesting to see the Block 1 tower as I and another forumer on here call it "The Waterfall Tower" will be blocking The Spring here in a few years.

Kevin's picture shows that at some point in the recent past Lakeside Apartments got rid of the teal color on their balconies and painted them brown. The building will never will any beauty contests but it does look better now.

I just gotta say that isn't my photo. I wish I could take credit for it, because it's really good and that is one sweet view. I'm guessing it was taken from Austin Skyhouse.

Fairmont Signs
 

I was driving north on 35 this morning and got only a quick look, but it appears some big signs have been placed on the Fairmont site announcing the hotel. Then again, my vision isn't what it once was.

Yep.

This says they're planning to break ground in December on the Aloft hotel in downtown.

http://www.statesman.com/news/busine...nned-fo/nfP6K/

Update: The targeted opening date in this story has been corrected to summer of 2016.

Energy company shifts HQ to Austin, inks space at Colorado Tower alongside Aussie firm

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...-space-at.html

Austin sure is building a lot of new hotels. Just wondering, but is Austin severely lacking in hotels downtown? Are the downtown hotels usually full?

Occupancy is always high due to the increase in tourism and a lot of big events/conventions.

Crane's going up at the library. It's about damn time.

http://i.imgur.com/5aPxR9D.jpg

Edit: Nevermind.

Another Austin luxury high-rise apartment project unveiled
 

They keep coming.......

22-story luxury high-rise apartment tower....

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...t-project.html

This really does seem to be taking a very long time. I didn't realize there were going to be two cranes.

Waller Park Place
 

This may have been posted before, but here is something I found online here: http://www.ibigroup.com/projects/waller-park-place

The project consists of three high-rise towers: a 21-story office building above an urban grocer; a 46-story residential tower; and a 38-story retail, hotel, and residential tower. A common podium base will provide underground and above-grade parking as well as numerous retail, dining, and entertainment uses along surrounding streets and overlooking Waller Creek.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...g/0720_big.gif

:D

Colorado Tower is opening by end of year??
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...at.html?page=2

They're cooking with gas now. Probably on floor 17 now? Another 12 or 13 to go.

4/4/2014
http://i.imgur.com/649wg4b.jpg

It's up to about 200 feet now.

Still, to have it ready for move-in by year's end is quite impressive. I guess office towers finish quicker than residential. Which would make sense now that I think about it since each floor is basically left empty, with only utilities in place.

That is correct. :yes:

Also consider the fact that almost half of Colorado Tower is a parking garage.

The Bowie

http://i.imgur.com/RLws5rL.jpg

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JW Marriott

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

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Skyhouse

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

7Rio and IBC Bank Plaza

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Last pic of the Bowie, that's a good angle. Where did you take that from?

The Hyatt parking garage.

Thanks for sharing Kevin. It's funny, I also see the guy on the unicycle from time to time. Btw that 2nd to last shot is incredibe, that you can clearly see IBM and the Arboretum. :cool:

Hyde Park Apartments U/C

http://static.squarespace.com/static...5/?format=750w

http://static.squarespace.com/static...0/?format=750w

http://www.stillwatercap.com/hyde-park-apartments

This is going up at Koenig & Ave F (North Austin)

The Hotel Granduca Austin starts April 14

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3731/...02448f2e_o.jpg

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...yle-hotel.html

Those are actually those two office midrises at 183 & Mopac, but they're still a good 11 to 12 miles away from where I was atop the South Austin Hospital parking garage. That other midrise in the background is maybe another half mile further north along Mopac north of 183. I have been able to see the Aboretum Buildings from that spot, though just west of there. There's also a huge water tank at Mopac just north of Howard Lane. It's actually just inside of Williamson County. I've been able to see it from that spot as well. It's almost 17 miles away from that spot. And I've always been able to see those huge concrete elevator towers in Buda about 11 to 12 miles to the south down in Hays County. So from atop that parking garage it's possible to see into at least two other counties, and that's without considering some random water tower in Bastrop County. This camera I got is pretty good. It's a Nikon Coolpix l820. It has 30x optical zoom which is almost three times as much as my last camera. I was playing around with it tonight while waiting in line at Dan's Hamburgers, and shot a photo of the moon and easily picked up craters.

That's impressive. I gotta save up for a camera like that. :cheers:

21C to Rise on Site of Nuevo Leon on East 6th
 

This site mentions that 21C is back. Now set for East 6th.

http://eastaustinnews.tumblr.com/pos...plode-in-78702

Well, we know it won't be a skyscraper because of the location. Hopefully it'll still be an awesome design. This version was my favorite design period of anything proposed for or built in Austin:

http://www.austintowers.net/Austin_D...entry105_1.jpg

I'm still crying at night that it wasn't built. ;)

I'm just happy there isn't going to be a Walmart built on that site.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily...-tex-mex-site/

Agreed.

Tower crane is up at the Forest Park Medical Center.

https://m.oxblue.com/open/a-p/forestparkmc

Check out this amazing image that I found on Lamar Union facebook page. :)

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7234/...dd3ae6b1_c.jpg

https://m.facebook.com/pages/Lamar-U...169831969&_rdr

Sweet. Here's the larger version.

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Lamar Union Apartments - Via Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater