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I have always eyed the industrial area around Ben White as being a place that could have the potential for being a dense urban node. It has major street arteries bordering it on all sides, rail access intersecting it (two lines actually) including one to the airport and the other that runs through downtown and beyond. There's also that Capitol Metro Park and Ride now near Congress & Ben White.

Yea, that does make a lot of sense but aren't most of the businesses there still operating?

By the way, I was looking up projects and saw the planning review files for The Flats on South Congress. This is located at 4361 South Congress where St. Elmo dead ends. It's the site of the old St. Elmo-Tel that closed down years ago. It had been planned as a 75 foot residential building, but the current plans now show the highest roof at 89 feet with 7 floors That would be the tallest building on Congress south of the Riverside and Barton Springs area.

Now that would be impressive, so is it actually moving forward then? They have had that sign up with a really cool rendering for a long time, I hope it looks similar to that. And finally something more than 5 floors, I can think of a few other places that a building like that would work real well. For example, the long stretch of land on S. Congress right in front of Pleasant Hill Elementary.