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Received noticed here at Milago today that 70 Rainey st (current location of the former 'White House' errata) would be developed into mixed-use resaurant, residential, and parking.

Applicant is Bury + Partners, Inc, Kristi M. English as the PE.

Owner is Donald J. Reese.

http://i.imgur.com/ppMlHEE.jpg?1

Supposedly this will be 25 to 30 floors with 182 units.

Tower Planned for 70 Rainey Street

Cool, hope it goes up. I wonder how the MACC feels about this proposal.

I personally give more respect to the last pile of dog shit that I stepped in than MACC's opinion about anything.

hahaha I thought about replying to his post with something similar, but decided against it. Mine wasn't going to be as scathing, though.

Well, the developers don't seem to be planning to build on the corner, so it would appear that MACC got what they wanted.

I thought all the fuss was about 70 Rainey Street, which is what's highlighted in that diagram, right? I think the corner is supposed to be another project; Hotel Van Zandt, I believe.

64 Rainey was going to be part of 70 Rainey until the MACC got involved.

The Hotel Van Zandt will be built next to The Shore.

This is now a Food Trailer Court, on the north lots and will be a concert venue with beer garden on the south lots. The owners of this lot swapped lots with the Luster Perl lots where they will build the proposed hotel.

Did they? I think Riverside Resorces still owns this property.

A houston firm purchased the lots by Lustre Pearl. The owners of 70 Rainey are probably just taking their time with the site plans. My thinking was in the meantime they would lease the property to food vendors.

Have not heard anything about a concert venue. Just a dog park :/

I heard that info from a food vendor themselves about what they have been told. So take it how you like. Time will tell.

The ABJ still lists the project still as a go...

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/pr...on-rainey.html

I might be crazy, but pretty sure Waller Center is the large property north of 4. Also they mentioned the Lustre Pearl is closing which it is not. Usually ABJ is in the know and accurate, but I am questioning this article.

They did an article the other day interviewing Bridget with her hinting that Lustre Pearl will operate elsewhere.

I am sure they where just stating that it was closing at its location where it is at right now.

The property for waller center should be extended all the way to Ceaser Chavez.The location they have in red is part of the propossed development.

Has anyone heard anything further about this one?

They were granted an 180-day extension on their Site Plan application last Friday, so the project still has legs. They now have until May 2014 to respond to the City's comments.

PageSoutherlandPage designed a condo tower for the previous owner of this piece of land and I can't seem to get the photo to embed.

http://flic.kr/p/jDKGss

You used the URL of the page itself. Click the Share button on Flickr and then the pin. Copy code and paste.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2843/1...e4d84668_z.jpg

Thanks!

Wow. I like that!

I'm an idiot and can't even find the pin button. Here is the east view (the first was from the west).

This project was going to be called "The Drake". The architect designed it so that the vast majority of the units were facing west to have views of Lady Bird Lake and the skyline.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ousuxs/12242222265/

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7453/1...f6f31afd_z.jpg

Here's a screenshot to help:
http://i.imgur.com/YI22sVO.png

It's a shame that it's not going to go up.

They really have cleared a lot of land between Rainey and the 35 frontage road. Several houses have been boarded up. Is this that bad choice low level project that is in the works? If it is, it's a perfect example between the difference of a highrise with a small foot print and a lowrise with a large sprawling footprint. It's going to ruin that whole area. Build up, not out!

yeah, that really would've been so beautiful for Rainey. There really isn't anything attractive in that area. Kimber will be pretty, but nobody will be able to see it....Page/ does really sexy minimal stuff.

It still bites that the original Hotel Van Zandt design was scrapped. This project would have been a nice compromise for losing the Hotel Van Zandt one. They both have streamlined masculine lines. They were bold architecture without being too crazy and out there.

agreed

This such a confusing lot. I cannot figure out what is going on. Can anyone provide a timeline of plans and owners?

This lot was foreclosed on a few years back. The pictures of the condo tower that I posted were of the plans that never got financing. The new owners are planning something similar...although they have not released any details or renderings.

Found that the site plan SP-2013-0101C was issued May 5, 2014. So not long ago and it provides some elevations.

380' to top. 20 stories of living with a total of 31 stories plus roof stuff.

http://i1323.photobucket.com/albums/...psdf94c718.jpg

http://i1323.photobucket.com/albums/...ps21909bbb.jpg

I think I'm going to really like this one, but I need a rendering first.

Wow. That one has a lot of potential. I would absolutely love to see that vertical curved section lit with LED lights. It would really do a lot to brighten that side of downtown.

Great find Ivanwolf. :tup:

Since the NIMBY MACC got the city to squash the last proposal, I wonder what kind of chance this one has?

Will the rainey neighborhood assoc. have any say in this?
As a rainey resident I would love to see this thing happen!

MACC just needs to gwt over it. They knew that area was rezoned Central Business District, if they didn't want to be surrounded by highrises then they should have found somewhere east of 35 to build the center.

I don't understand what has changed since the last proposal failed. This is just as big - or even slightly bigger - than the last proposal for the site. :shrug:

I really don't get their opposition to something being built on that lot. It's not like there's some prominent view of their building from the east. No view from I-35 (which would be ridiculous to fight to save). Their best view is the one the museum has of downtown, and this building will be in the opposite direction. Not only that, but I would always assume that any museum would want to aspire to have something greater across the street from them than a dirt parking lot.

I have friends that own one of the food trailers, Beef Cake Shop and they asked me to keep an eye out if anything got approved. They tell me nothing over two stories can be built, not sure why, but with this completely through the process Approved and Released it seems that its a go, nothing holding it up now. My friends will have to find another location I guess, this location was much better than the Round Rock spot they started at.

Next time ask them why they think only a 2 level building is the only thing that should go there considering it is in Downtown zoned Central Business District. I would love to hear their reasoning.

They were confident that the MACC had some sort of control over that lot and had it restricted to only two floors that's why the Millennium Rainey moved from this spot to the Luster Pearl spot. Maybe Millennium Rainey just gave up and moved rather than fight MACC. And maybe by now the MACC lost its control that it had or never completed what ever action they were taking to prevent something over two floors being built. They wanted to protect the view of the building, from where Rainey St? not much of a view, the best view is from the trail. So I know its speculative but I'm not looking up documents, I just know that a permit to construct was issued for this condo building, so its unlikely the MACC can stop it now that its past all the reviews and likely public hearings.

Good. I'm so tired of the MACC's crap with this lot.

The city council stopped the last one, and that can always happen again regardless of other city approvals. It seems like one of MACC's phony complaints the last time was they wanted to use the land for future parking. This project seems to have an unusual amount of parking - 10, 11? - levels. So maybe they worked through the parking issue.

The MACC and Council stopped this developer from buying adjacent City owned lots at the MACC entrance that they wanted to buy to expand this project. They did not stop this project on privately owned land.

The site plan for this project was approved in May. It says it's 30 stories and 367'. It's the fourth attachment from the bottom.

https://www.austintexas.gov/devrevie...erRSN=10916451

Anyone know who the architect and developer are? I wonder what the height change was for.

I believe it's /Page ...Not sure of developer. They're one of my fav local firms.

Riverside Resources is the developer.

It's 339' to the roof and 380' to the structural top. 31 stories (not including any mechanical levels).

nm

There is movement on this one. The site plan was already approved, but they want to revise it. Just filed this morning:

https://www.austintexas.gov/devrevie...erRSN=11246069

realtor friend told me they are going to do pre-construction sales next August for this project.