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Old Posted Apr 1, 2018, 2:37 AM
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If these do end up being this tall it'll likely force the Waller Park Place project to go big, too, not just because of precedent of height in the area, but because they'll likely want the extra height to have the views. Waller Park Place had been presented as being on a scale that was way above what Austin had seen so far. Remember, one of the proposals for it showed one of the buildings with around 65 floors and about 750 feet tall. Anything around the height of the Travis towers or less would make their project not have much of a view to the south. I know the real money view is the one to the west looking down the river, but I would assume they'd want to take advantage of the views in both directions. The tallest tower in the Waller Park Place project was on the lot south of Willow Street where it would pretty much have unobstructed views to the west. It just makes sense that they'd go for as much height for that lot as possible because those lots in that area are really unparalleled in Austin for river views.
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