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Originally Posted by NYC_Longhorn
It doesn't make sense how they could put a 5 story project here.... it really doesn't make sense... especially since they are spending so much on it... I'm thinking that maybe there is something to the east being planned
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There
is something being planned to the east - in the next block.
Here's the map of the entire parcel.
The image is from Jude's blog at downtownaustinblog.org
Plan To Revitalize 6th & Congress Announced, Underwhelms Everyone
March 19, 2013
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The deal consists of five parcels totaling 2.3 acres at the southeast corner of Congress and Sixth, plus a half-block directly east on Fifth Street between Brazos and San Jacinto Boulevard.
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The half block site on East Fifth Street between Brazos and San Jacinto, which is home to a Bank of America drive through, will be sold for an unknown development.
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The "unknown development" is the 5th & Brazos mixed-use tower.
I know that most here will disagree with me, but I think having a 50-60 story tower on the east side of Congress Avenue squeezed in between the Bank of Amercia Tower and Frost Tower in the next block would be overkill. And then across Congress on the west side you have two and three story historic buildings and nothing of height - unless 416 Congress ever were to be built. I'd much rather see the "middle" tower between Bank of America and Frost be set back a block like Magellan is proposing to do with the 5th & Brazos proposal.