Mueller/Windsor Park Area Development Updates

[Urbannizer]

Austin LifeFamily Church Looking to Transform its 19-Acre Mueller Site Multifamily Mixed-Use Development

LifeFamily Church is looking to transform its 19-acre LifeFamily Mueller site into a mixed-use development.

The Austin Business Journal reports the church has plans to construct 880 multifamily units and 15,000 square feet of religious assembly space on the site. The redevelopment plans would involve demolition. It’s not clear whether LifeFamily plans to make any or all of the units income-restricted. According to the application, the church does not plan on using any tax credits or government funding.

[Urbannizer]

204-unit affordable housing community opens in East Austin

City officials, developers and neighborhood residents gathered July 17 to cut the ribbon on Seabrook Square I, a 204-unit income-restricted apartment community at 3515 Manor Road in East Austin's J.J. Seabrook neighborhood.

The community—named for Dr. John Jarvis "J.J." Seabrook, a Black educator, pastor and longtime Austin community leader—offers studio through four-bedroom homes for households earning between 30% and 60% of the median family income, according to a news release from the Austin Housing Department.

Spread across five-story and four-story buildings, Seabrook Square I includes 95 one-bedroom, 57 two-bedroom, 21 three-bedroom and three four-bedroom apartments, along with 28 studios. The complex is almost at capacity for those who fall into the 30% category, property staff said during a tour following the ceremony.

The development's second phase, Seabrook Square II, is connected to the first and will offer 60 fully furnished, single-occupancy efficiency apartments upon its opening in August. The facility will provide permanent supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness, paired with voluntary wraparound services, according to the release.

[clubtokyo]

I love the metal screen details on that last one.

[IluvATX]

Originally Posted by clubtokyo

I love the metal screen details on that last one.

It looks like a psych hospital

[Armybrat]

Sure hope the residents take pride in the place and don’t trash it.

I remember well what happened to the vast public housing projects in St. Louis during the 1950s & 60s.

[78701]

This looks horrible. The color palette, the motel-style ACs under the windows, the tile work, the uneven siding (why are the clapboards between the windows wider than the surrounding ones?) - all scream "cheap crap, not worth caring for".
None of these things need much money to be better.

[chinchaaa]

Originally Posted by 78701

This looks horrible. The color palette, the motel-style ACs under the windows, the tile work, the uneven siding (why are the clapboards between the windows wider than the surrounding ones?) - all scream "cheap crap, not worth caring for".
None of these things need much money to be better.

well why dont we give them more money?

[The ATX]

Affordable housing wouldn't be affordable of it was amazing architecture.

[78701]

Not asking for "amazing". Minor changes could take this thing from "looks like a public restroom in some post-Soviet province" to reasonable. But.

[ahealy]

Originally Posted by 78701

This looks horrible. The color palette, the motel-style ACs under the windows, the tile work, the uneven siding (why are the clapboards between the windows wider than the surrounding ones?) - all scream "cheap crap, not worth caring for".
None of these things need much money to be better.

That sadly seems to be the build template for Austin.... even outside of affordable housing.

Ugh, 90% of my honest impressions of Austin developments seem to be negative because everything is so goddamn tacky and ugly now.