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Originally Posted by hookem
Would be neat to find any old renderings of the failed condo project that produced that canvas.
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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas
The project was called "Castle East". It would have been an 8-story building.
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Although Castle East was never built, the foundation for the failed condo project that produced the canvas was from a much earlier condo project in the 1980's. Jude mentioned it in this blog post:
The Castle On The Hill
If you read the comments, another reader provided a link to an Austin Chronicle
article about the Baylor Art Wall and it mentions:
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It's ironic that the Baylor Street walls are the foundations of a would-be condo, stalled after a botched soil test decades ago and again recently when the housing bubble burst. Although, "it's very likely something will happen soon," Clark said.
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A former co-worker of mine had four brothers who all worked for the fire department. I remember her mother telling me that when the first condo project was proposed in the 1980's, the fire chief at the time said that if it ever caught fire, that the firemen wouldn't try to fight it from Baylor Street. They'd fight it from down on Lamar. I got the impression that they thought the hillside wasn't stable enough, but I (or my friend's mom) could have been wrong.
That site plan info you posted for Castle East had an address of 1109 W. 11th Street. I think the official address for the project back in the 1980's was 1008 Baylor Street.