Domain/North Austin Development Updates

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Payton Gin Multifamily

https://roerscompanies.com/projects/austin-project/

The Payton is a 176-unit income-restricted housing development located just north of downtown Austin. This community combines affordability with premium amenities, including garage parking, electric vehicle charging areas, bike storage, a business center, a supportive services space, a community room, a fitness center, a library, an outdoor pool and patio, as well as a playground. The Payton is expected to welcome the first residents in Spring 2028.

[Novacek]

“Just north of downtown”?

Well that’s an expansion of the definition of Central Austin even I haven’t heard before.

[ROCrot]

Originally Posted by Novacek

“Just north of downtown”?

Well that’s an expansion of the definition of Central Austin even I haven’t heard before.

Maybe the author had originally written really north of Austin, but his editor didn't like that and changed to to "just."

Eh, who am I kidding. it's just hyperbolic marketing by someone who doesn't really know Austin. They're also using 'affordability' and 'premium amenities' in the same sentence...

[Armybrat]

Originally Posted by Novacek

“Just north of downtown”?

Well that’s an expansion of the definition of Central Austin even I haven’t heard before.

No kidding.

When my brother bought his first house on Piedmont in 1959, there was a working farm behind his back fence.
And the West Annderson Lane area was a ranch.
65 years ago I used to take my Saturday night high school dates parking by the little country road on the cliff overlooking the abandoned northwest hills quarry.

“Central Austin”, indeed. LMAO.
What do ya expect from today’s carpetbaggers?

[JoninATX]

The Westin expansion update from yesterday

[Riverranchdrone]

Wow that went up fast.

[Riverranchdrone]

Is the train stop at Q2 stadium now open? I will be attending my first Austin F.C. game tomorrow. I want to take the train from Howard station to Q2 Stadium.

[LiveattheOasis]

Originally Posted by Riverranchdrone

Is the train stop at Q2 stadium now open? I will be attending my first Austin F.C. game tomorrow. I want to take the train from Howard station to Q2 Stadium.

It is open, you'll enjoy doing so!

[Riverranchdrone]

You were right. It was a pretty great experience. We went to the Howard lane stop. The train was just a few minutes late. They have the conductor come through between the stops to scan tickets. I guess it is almost like an honor system. I swear both time they only scanned my app once each time for both me and my wife. It dropped us right near the stadium. For the amount of people it was a very orderly chaos. A lot of food choices. They were pricey but I think still slightly cheaper than the HEP center in Cedar Park.

[SproutingTowers]

Westin Austin at The Domain

[Urbannizer]

The Grand Reserve

10017 Domain Dr.

The Grand Reserve is a luxury mixed-use hospitality and experiential real estate development planned for Austin, Texas near the Domain corridor.

The concept brings together a private members club, a luxury cigar lounge, a boutique hotel, curated nightlife and event programming, and a rooftop hospitality platform with executive skyboxes — anchored by a singular destination brand and an institutional capital structure.

[The ATX]

This one confuses me. The verbiage at the link indicates that this is an eight-story hotel, which is not the rendering. The city photos are Charlotte, not Austin even though they are portrayed as the Domain Austin.

[ahealy]

That website is a mess...as is the render.

[ROCrot]

Originally Posted by The ATX

This one confuses me. The verbiage at the link indicates that this is an eight-story hotel, which is not the rendering. The city photos are Charlotte, not Austin even though they are portrayed as the Domain Austin.

The webpage is intended as a pitch to investors, not prospective tenants. Many of the potential investors may not notice that it's Charlotte or perceptive enough to see the inconsistencies.

[ROCrot]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

The Grand Reserve

10017 Domain Dr.

So this proposed hotel is intended for the patch of land adjacent to IBM Building 45, the last remaining building in The Domain from a time when IBM owned the land and still had its main Austin facilities on the west side of Burnet. You know, before The Domain was The Domain.

Very, very soon, IBM will be vacating the buildings on the east side of Burnet, where it has been since the late 1980s, and moving into Domain 12.

I assume that it's just a matter of time that Building 45, which I believe was built in the late 1970s, will meet its end. It's literally a relic of what used to be on the site, a bunch of one- or two-story buildings whose dominant color was walnut brown and resembled warehouses. IBM originally manufactured Selectric (electric typewriters) on the site in the late 1960s, and eventually moved onto developing PCs and designing its own microprocessors there.