AUSTIN | Project Updates Thread Part II - Page 460

The ATX · #**9181** Posted **Dec 11, 2025, 12:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by ATX2030

Former 3M Campus

An unidentified person/group/company/entity or whatever is pouring $610 million into the former 3M Campus. Project name is "Cosmos."

Here's some details from our vey own The ATX.

https://x.com/TheATX1/status/1998206953450086401

Nvidia perhaps...

https://builtin.com/articles/nvidia-cosmos

Nvidia is an excellemt theory - the best I've heard yet. Some people are thinking SpaceX,

drummer · #**9182** Posted **Dec 12, 2025, 3:36 PM**

Cosmos makes sense for SpaceX if they're relating it to anything...but then the code word isn't very code-y.

obemearg · #**9183** Posted **Dec 15, 2025, 8:53 PM**

FWIW, all of Nvidias other office names are space/sci-fi themed "Endeavor", "Voyager" +"Starbase" (in permitting) in Santa Clara, and "Constellation" in Taiwan.

drummer · #**9184** Posted **Dec 16, 2025, 2:58 PM**

^ That's interesting - I wasn't aware of that.

Watch it be the corporate headquarters for P Terry's or something though. Massive growth and all, so there's need for a huge corporate campus.

The ATX · #**9185** Posted **Dec 20, 2025, 10:37 PM**

The tallest buildings & projects lists in the sticky development thread have been updated for year end 2025.

KevinFromTexas · #**9186** Posted **Dec 24, 2025, 2:54 AM**

Endeavor got their demo permit for their project to replace Wayerloo Records.

https://www.kvue.com/article/money/econo...YwX4WzZZEtdA&brid=Zi5RbOnXi5mIyZTRmiSq0Q

Riverranchdrone · #**9187** Posted **Dec 29, 2025, 3:52 PM**

This is going up on the westside of downtown along the railroad tracks.
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The ATX · #**9188** Posted **Jan 13, 2026, 3:37 PM**

I updated the tallest lists for Q1 2026 in the sticky development thread.

Urbannizer · #**9189** Posted **Jan 24, 2026, 4:51 PM**

6th & Walsh

The ATX · #**9190** Posted **Jan 25, 2026, 12:30 AM**

I'm pretty sure that was a vision for the site. The renderings from the marketing brochure that were previously posted are the likely current renderings:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6...65918573185/Sixth+%26+Walsh+-+Austin.pdf

But the project will likely change because the original 2024 site plan was withdrawn/re-submitted two weeks ago. The new site plan doesn't have project info yet.

Urbannizer · #**9191** Posted **Jan 29, 2026, 4:35 AM**

6th & Blanco

Urbannizer · #**9192** Posted **Feb 5, 2026, 2:22 AM**

The row house is back to solve the housing crisis

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At a factory in Austin, a startup recently finished its first prototype: a row house it plans to replicate in cities nationwide to help with the housing shortage.

Row houses—narrow, multistory homes that share walls with neighbors on each side—are ubiquitous in older neighborhoods from Brooklyn to San Francisco, but aren’t commonly built now. The American Housing Corp., wants to bring them back.

“Row homes are an underbuilt category in the United States,” says Riley Meik, cofounder and CEO of the American Housing Corp. The company has developed a kit of parts that can be quickly manufactured, shipped to building sites in dense urban neighborhoods, and assembled, helping shrink construction costs. While the price of an American Housing Corp. row house will vary, some of the first row houses in Austin will sell for around $750,000.

The company also plans to act as a developer, working with partners to buy land on empty lots in dense neighborhoods, so that it can handle the entire process. “Our biggest learning from other [prefab] companies is that in order to have full control of what you build and how you build it (and truly be able to innovate in the way homes are built), you need to be both the prefab company and the real estate development firm,” Meik says. “Vertical integration has given us the freedom on the engineering side to redesign the home from the ground up in order to make it mass-producible in a factory setting. We don’t use two-by-fours, drywall, or hammers and nails. Our homes are designed to be built with machines.”

In Austin, one of the cities where they’re building first, they plan to sell row houses for less than $750,000 in neighborhoods where single-family homes sell for $1 million to $2 million, offering an option for buyers who otherwise might not be able to stay in a compact, walkable neighborhood.

wwmiv · #**9193** Posted **Feb 5, 2026, 2:49 AM**

Oh wow $750k… totally going to solve the housing crisis. No. This guy is just out to make a buck and using overtly political marketing to accomplish that.

And bulk manufactured to boot.

Riverranchdrone · #**9194** Posted **Feb 5, 2026, 3:14 AM**

I love the look and the idea. But 750,000 is not affordable.

The ATX · #**9195** Posted **Feb 6, 2026, 7:26 PM**

A demo permit for "office buildings" on the site was filed today.

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Updated renderings:

https://communityimpact.com/austin/south...th-plans-for-232-unit-mixed-use-project/

wwmiv · #**9196** Posted **Feb 6, 2026, 7:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverranchdrone

I love the look and the idea. But 750,000 is not affordable.

The fact that these are being marketed as affordable tells you everything you need to know about the worldview of the people producing them—and I sincerely hope they fail. They have zero business making money off of false premises.

See Also:

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=263763

Lobotomizer · #**9197** Posted **Feb 6, 2026, 10:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by wwmiv

The fact that these are being marketed as affordable tells you everything you need to know about the worldview of the people producing them—and I sincerely hope they fail. They have zero business making money off of false premises.

See Also:

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=263763

The article mentions these would be selling in neighborhoods full of SFHs going for 1 or 2 million dollars. So in theory three or four of these selling at 750,000 on a lot that previously had a single home work $1.5 million.

That adds to the building stock. That allows a substantial lower point of entry into these neighborhoods. That takes pressure off of the existing neighborhoods full of homes selling for $750K.

In and of themselves they don't solve the housing crisis, but it is another piece of the puzzle But you do you, boo.

wwmiv · #**9198** Posted **Feb 7, 2026, 5:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Lobotomizer

The article mentions these would be selling in neighborhoods full of SFHs going for 1 or 2 million dollars. So in theory three or four of these selling at 750,000 on a lot that previously had a single home work $1.5 million.

That adds to the building stock. That allows a substantial lower point of entry into these neighborhoods. That takes pressure off of the existing neighborhoods full of homes selling for $750K.

In and of themselves they don't solve the housing crisis, but it is another piece of the puzzle But you do you, boo.

No, I’m sorry it’s not. This practice is part of the PROBLEM not part of the solution.

paul78701 · #**9199** Posted **Feb 9, 2026, 4:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by wwmiv

No, I’m sorry it’s not. This practice is part of the PROBLEM not part of the solution.

Adding more supply to the market (at all price points) is the solution. It's basic supply and demand economics.

wwmiv · #**9200** Posted **Feb 9, 2026, 5:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by paul78701

Adding more supply to the market (at all price points) is the solution. It's basic supply and demand economics.

Last I checked, adding overpriced crap doesn’t actually bring the average price down—it raises it according to study after study after study.