Awesome
 

Thanks for that!

Seriously, this forum is sucking hard... the moderator must have been kidnapped by a houstonite

Relax, bro. We're just posting more in the Austin subforum these days. This forum is mostly for new announcements and most of the activity these days is just updates.

Buyers Gasp for Air Space
 

I drove by the new Apple Campus the other day, and wow is it massive. I wish I had time to snap a shot but I was in a hurry.

Around Austin
 

People from Houston are referred to as Houstonians. :)

The quality of this thread is starting to suck, (and I know that I just added nothing to help that.)

I agree Hill Country, this thread is slowly dying.

It seems like a bit of a lull, what happened to Zaza? I thought they were kind of doing site prep already. And the project on 8th street was supposed to start in June I thought.

Can't wait to click skyscraperpage.com in 5 days, only to see that Honolulu and Dayton, Ohio have more forum action than us... :-)

hahahaha

personally, I blame La-Shonda Novak

She was probably kidnapped by the same Houstonite that kidnapped Kevin in Texas

^^^ Nice try. :)

this forum yawn, zzzzzzz zzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzz
someone build a Lego set of downtown again! must .... have .... renderings... can't take this much longer...

Move to Houston, Miami, or back to NYC

...or, as it has been said already, just stick to the Austin sub forum where the everyone posts about Austin projects. This thread has always been a step child to the sub forum.

That's lame. Everyone else is happy to do updates in the compilation section of the forum, where everyone can participate instead of going to these segregated individual city forums for updates. Why are Austinites so shy?

Look at the Philadelphians, they're a proud bunch that have over 100 posts of nothing but their opinions (no updates) every single day. And when they do get updates, the thread gains 150 new posts a day. Austinites can take some pride notes from that.

Austin's Pour House Pub to close this week, demolition set to begin

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2939/...d9c0a931_c.jpg
http://www.gff.com/projects/burnet-marketplace/
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...html?full=true

The cities with sub forums tend to have less activity in their compilation threads. Apparently people don't have time to double post everything. If you like reading a "100 posts of nothing but opinios" stick to the other threads.

You do have a point. Cities like Austin, Toronto, and NYC are low key in the compilation section because their own sub forums but I just want to point back a year to when Austin's compilation thread was legitimately active and to cite the 2 or 3 years prior to that when it remained aggressively active.

This is what's left of Lamar Village. Taken today.

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5563/...7ea211fe_c.jpg

I'm agreeing with he guy who just told me to move.... booooooo

This thread should be the thread we use.... it's the one everyone clicks on when they go to skyscraperpage.com and there is an energy created when you see austin is always up at the top of that list... I can't wait to see what's posted next!

then everyone goes all "hipster subforum's are cool" on my ass and now I have to find everyone's stuff? and where the hell is Kevin? I am seriously worried about him....

he's probably in that houstonite's basement ... poor guy

I agree that we should post more in this thread as well. City Compilations is the first section the majority of people see. Not everyone goes into the sub forum so in order to keep a wider audience in the loop then its a good idea to add posts on this thread.

It's hard to balance. There were so many projects to track that a sub-forum became necessary. I do think it's a combination of some forum users, myself included, forgetting about this thread, and there not being a ton of new announcements right now. Lot of projects that we are either waiting to finish, or to go from proposal to reality. I don't think we will see many new proposals until financiers see how the market absorbs all this new construction. Maybe posting some picture updates in here on occasion in addition to new project announcements.

I prefer to be able to pick and choose which projects i want to monitor. Sub-forums are great for that.
I know if I really want to explore other cities to look for Sub-forums.
I don't mind "workin' for it" a little.

I don't think Houston has any basements, but if I ever find myself tied up in one, I'll let you know. :)

And I haven't gone anywhere. I have been downtown lately taking some photos.

The sub-forums have been around for about 5 years I believe. Most of the minor updates - things like utility permits, crane permits, etc., get posted to each individual building thread, while the more major updates like building elevations with heights and renderings get posted in those threads, and here. It's just that we're in a lull right now. We've seen almost every rendering for every new project, and we have heights now for just about every new project. Now we're mostly just waiting to hear if they'll break ground. And waiting on those rumored projects that haven't announced yet.

http://www.statesman.com/news/busine...er-site/ngW2r/

AHHHH that would be amazing. The RBJ Center site has to be one of the most underutilized pieces of lakefront land in the city. I look forward to what this team has in store :)

Here is the link to their construction camera: http://www.lamarcentral.com/live-feed/

And here is what they are sending out to brokers:

http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4c92a853.jpg

Thanks.

Took a long stroll around downtown this afternoon and snapped some photos on my iPhone, not the best quality but gives you an idea of all the construction going on right now in Austin!

I wish they'd add some tables w/ umbrellas in this plaza area of the courthouse to attract some downtown patrons for lunch and enliven it -- as it stands now the whole area is almost always empty every time i've gone past it, even during lunch hour.
https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/54...0/829/0ri0.jpg

I like the colored seating & funky planters that Frank has, little things like this can do a lot to liven up the sidewalk and create a better pedestrian experience
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/829/q93u.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/853/lxwd.jpg

Bowie & Seven making an impact on the Western Skyline
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/822/zjn1.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102.../843/4ic0l.jpg

Colorado Tower started to show form the lake
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/855/z1y8.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/849/92hh.jpg

Crane city!
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/819/fsip.jpg

Never noticed these before, anyone know what the story is behind them?
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/853/je96.jpg

Those were for the old whole foods back when it was in the same building as Book People.

Yes!!! So glad they left those there at the old WHole Foods garage!

As for the pic of the Courthouse plaza. Not sure tables, etc will ever happen there.
THat area is part of the barrier around the courthouse for safety ( Thank you OKC bomber) There is a barrier distance that is required all around the building. ( I think it's 50 feet, but I'm sure someone will know for sure)
It's why the street was closed. They couldn't get enough distance on all sides and still make the building work. (Note how the actualy building is set back on all sides.) Which does mean they might have picked the wrong location. But that is another debate that happened years ago! LOL!

The farmers market uses that area when the park is bad shape….. and folks sit there to eat…. but that's about it.

So this is going on at the north end of Rainey street, what they tore down Lustre Pearl for, but I forget the name of the project.

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5531/...b7addf80_h.jpg

Thanks for the update Priller, the project is called Millennium Rainey.

http://zieglercooper.com/wp-content/...ngliu-Joe1.jpg
http://zieglercooper.com/millennium-rainey-street/

Site plan showing the existing conditions of the Austin Energy Center.

The address is listed as 301 West Avenue. This is Block 24.

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...enue_PLANS.pdf

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Site plan showing the existing conditions of the site where 501 Brazos is planned (Magellan Group Tower).

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...azos_PLANS.pdf

http://i.imgur.com/EK9YBCL.jpg

Beautiful building. Looks hotel/apts.

Yep. That's what it is. It's planned to be 504 feet tall with 47 floors. It would be our 4th tallest behind the Austonian, 360 Condos and the Frost Bank Tower.

What building is this?
:shrug:

http://www.dcarch.com/#on-the-boards

That is the 416 Congress Hotel that was planned. it was supposed to be 336 feet with 26 floors. It's most likely dead. We haven't heard anything about it since April of 2012.

Here's the thread on it with more details/renderings.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=181898

Renderings come out for the new 35 story apartment tower planned for Rainey Street later today in the Austin Biz Journal.

http://m.bizjournals.com/austin/blog...ry.html?r=full

48 East Ave would be a new project - at least I don't remember hearing anything about it before. It would be where this law office is by Skyhouse:

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/.../48EastAve.png

Same here Hill Country, as soon as I read down half way it got me real excited to see another high rise going in at Rainey St. In which Mayor Lee Leffingwell saved the best for last.

Yeah, I haven't seen any files on it on the city's website. 35 floors would almost certainly be another 400 footer.

35 story building article - rendering included
 

Here's the rendering from the article with the obligatory stream of bats in the background:

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...2259-247-0.jpg

That's a shame. Progress is progress but I liked Rainy St. without all the upscale residential. Wouldn't have minded them taking the lot with the IHOP on it.

Well there's no way that's 400 feet tall, and it's not even 35 floors. I count 28 floors.

Very impressive, Austin has come a long way its scary to come in here and see what's being built, next. And ouch that hurt. lol.

San Antonio is on the verge of a very possible skyscraper boom. A couple of 600(2 Proposed) footers will really compliment S.A's thick infill. S.A.'s skyline needs some new skyscrapers but it has one of the better street levels of the sunbelt cities. :)

It shouldn't be scary visit here. We're neighbors! :) San Antonio should eventually see a boom even bigger than the current one due to the fact that Austin is getting so expensive. Developers will be looking more and more towards SA.

Expensive by Texas standards but we really are still pretty cheap when compared to other cities especially on the east and west coasts.

Austin will be unique among the Texas cities with regards to density and ultimately height because we are growing in a different way now. We have to because we don't have multiple interstates and 2 or 3 loops encircling the city nor do we have the room to ever build anything like that. None of the other big 3 will end up being compact and dense the way Austin will eventually be because they are already spread out and they have highrise clusters outside of their DTs. As Austin continues build up the core over the next 20 years, there will be a huge difference in how Austin looks compared to the other cities.