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As for further development opportunities (blocks/parcels), these are likely to see projects in the near future that are east of 35:

The biggest target that should be painted is on the trash yards at 3rd and San Marcos, also extending further at 4th and Waller. There are five in total and they all need to go. All of them. The quicker the better because those parcels are paper made for projects.

The two mostly empty parcels surrounded by 35, 8th, Embassy, and 9th. There's a house here at the corner of 35 and 9th (well... really at the end of 9th), but I don't think that'll last long.

This parcel is smaller, but it's empty land nonetheless: just in between the above land and the Shell at 7th and 35, bounded on the east by 5 story complex. This isn't going to be a multi-level project is anything happens with it (it'll block the views of the people next door), but I expect that something productive can go here.

I'm not a fan of the crappy gas stations downtown, in that vein I really hope the Shell is replaced by a more updated gas station. Frankly, the Valero the street down does just fine and is nicer. The shell should be replaced by residential.

Weren't there plans to develop the land straddling the railroad at Plaza Saltillo? What's going on with that?

The empty lots at 7th and San Marcos could probably support a 5-7 story VMU project.

The empty land at 11th, Curve, and Juniper is ripe for a project.

There's also an empty small parcel at 9th and Waller where some street front retail could be located.

Those are the closest in to 35. In order to find decent re-developable land you have to go further out. Are the three empty parcels at the corners of 8th and Concho (NW, SW, NE, and SE) parks? If not, those are great opportunities. Wasn't Huston-Tillotson looking to redevelop part of their land at 7th and Chalmers into a dormitory? That'd be good.

Other than that, there's nothing worth it in east Austin on empty land. Everything else would require tearing down older stock, which I'm against in this area for environmental justice reasons.