[KevinFromTexas]

The address is 211 South Lamar Boulevard.

City of Austin permit files:
https://www.austintexas.gov/devrevie...erRSN=10814793

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http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/pr...w-grander.html

Feb 1, 2013, 5:00am CST
Plans for Taco Cabana site grow grander
Post prefers to build site bigger and as condos

Jan Buchholz
Staff Writer-
Austin Business Journal

The multifamily project that will replace a downtown Taco Cabana restaurant will be taller and denser than originally proposed if developers gain approval for a rezoning request that’s in the works.

Stephen Drenner, an entitlement lawyer with Winstead PC, said his client — a partnership of Post Investment Group of Los Angeles and Ascension Development of Dallas — submitted new plans to the city for the almost 1-acre site at South Lamar Boulevard and Riverside Drive. The new design contemplates 96 feet of height, or about 10 stories — nearly 50 percent above the current limit of 65 feet.

Rendering from the article:


The building featured in this rendering is proposed for the corner of South Lamar Boulevard and Riverside Drive across the street from the new Zach Theatre. The site now holds a Taco Cabana restaurant. To get the project going, it’ll take a rezoning.

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http://www.statesman.com/news/busine...sitedev/nWXfG/

Posted: 5:22 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, 2013
Upscale apartments planned for Taco Cabana site
Developers promise “unique” project for high-profile tract

By Shonda Novak
American-Statesman Staff

Pending a zoning change, developers plan to start construction this summer on an tower with 175 luxury apartments just south of downtown, on a site that now has a Taco Cabana restaurant.

The project is slated for a high-profile 1-acre site at West Riverside Drive and South Lamar Boulevard, just south of the Pfluger Bridge and the Lady Bird Lake hike-and-bike trail. Just east is the Butler Park Pitch and Putt, and to the south, the Paggi House restaurant.
The developers behind the project, which is going by the temporary name of 211 South Lamar, are Dallas-based Ascension Development, teaming with Los Angeles-based Post Investment Group. They are seeking a zoning change that would allow them to build a 96-foot building with 200,000 square feet of space, instead of a 60-foot building with about 130,000 square feet of space that existing rules would allow, said Steve Drenner, the Austin attorney handling the zoning case for the developers.

The case is set to go before the city’s Planning Commission March 12 and the City Council on March 28, Drenner said.