AUSTIN | Project Updates Thread Part II - Page 43

JoninATX · #**841** Posted **Aug 11, 2014, 7:26 PM**

Congrats and good luck wwmiv.

lzppjb · #**842** Posted **Aug 12, 2014, 11:34 AM**

I walked by the new Think Tank HQ on 9th & Congress last night. They have the steel skeleton up. The facade shape reminds me of the building they are replacing, so that's cool. To me, it looks like it'll just be a taller version of what was there with a sidewalk awning reminiscent of the Stephen F. Austin hotel.

Urbannizer · #**843** Posted **Aug 14, 2014, 12:18 AM**

501 Congress: from a few minutes ago.

The ATX · #**844** Posted **Aug 15, 2014, 10:21 PM**

A single permit request for four tower cranes was filed last week for the medical center:

https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=11195292

KevinFromTexas · #**845** Posted **Aug 15, 2014, 11:56 PM**

Site plans (with elevations) for a few projects.

This first one is planned for the lot between East 8th & 9th at I-35 where that single old house is sitting and falling apart. It looks like the house will be demolished since the elevations show the complex fronting both 8th & 9th.

800 Embassy Drive - 93 feet 9 inches with 5 floors of residential over 2 floors of parking.
ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/1408...family%20800%20Embassy%20Drive_PLANS.pdf

Bluebonnet Studios - 2301 South Lamar
ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/140828/PLANS/AULCC_SP-Bluebonnet%20Studios_PLANS.pdf

I couldn't get this one to load all the way. Maybe someone else will have better luck.

East MLK Boulevard & Alexander Avenue Mixed Use -
ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/1408...%20&%20Alexander%20Mixed%20Use_PLANS.pdf

The ATX · #**846** Posted **Aug 16, 2014, 12:33 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Site plans (with elevations) for a few projects.

This first one is planned for the lot between East 8th & 9th at I-35 where that single old house is sitting and falling apart. It looks like the house will be demolished since the elevations show the complex fronting both 8th & 9th.

This will be a big improvement over that bombed out house that has been an eyesore for decades:

Digatisdi · #**847** Posted **Aug 16, 2014, 4:13 AM**

Oh I'm really looking forward to that one, wow

Also the buildout of more TOD at MLK is gonna be nice

Chiveman · #**848** Posted **Aug 16, 2014, 4:16 AM**

Here are some updated images from different perspectives of Austin's (Potential) Future Skyline. I included ECC as an 800' building on the western half of the lot.

I really hope y'all enjoy these as much as I do making them!

Please leave comments/suggestions!

the Genral · #**849** Posted **Aug 16, 2014, 5:18 AM**

Yeah I like them, thanks for going through the effort. It will be quite the skyline if it gets built out like this. Your mock ups definately help confirm my imagination, I just wish we could get taller construction further north. Perhaps you could indulge me by planting a few towers north, but realistically by keeping the cvc in place. Maybe even spotting some towers north of the Capitol where the planatarium tower was once planned.

ahealy · #**850** Posted **Aug 16, 2014, 5:28 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiveman

Here are some updated images from different perspectives of Austin's (Potential) Future Skyline. I included ECC as an 800' building on the western half of the lot.

I really hope y'all enjoy these as much as I do making them!

Please leave comments/suggestions!

Love it!! We're not far off from that becoming a reality!

GoldenBoot · #**851** Posted **Aug 16, 2014, 8:16 PM**

I hope the ECC project is not only iconic in its architecture, but, also in its height!

KevinFromTexas · #**852** Posted **Aug 16, 2014, 8:35 PM**

I'm really hoping we get something tall there and at the courthouse block. I've been imagining 3 points on the skyline creating a "big three" like Cleveland and Minneapolis, though somewhat shorter. It would really create some symmetry for the skyline and at some peaks.

AusTxDevelopment · #**853** Posted **Aug 18, 2014, 9:30 PM**

Looks like Endeavor is gearing up to develop a site next to Hotel Van Zant near Waller Creek/Rainey Street, according to the Austin Towers Blog: "Red River Properties Apply For Demo Permit, Signals Development Efforts" http://austintowers.net/red-river-properties-apply-for-demo-permitsignals-development-efforts/

Originally these two lots (4 half-lots) could support approximately 220,000 square feet of mixed use development total, which is a little larger than IBC Bank Plaza. I wonder if Endeavor will try and get a better FAR so they can go taller? Provided its not in a CVC. Also, I wonder what they are going to build there - another hotel seems unlikely.

Image via The Austin Towers Blog http://i1.wp.com/austintowers.net/wordpr...-red-river.jpg?zoom=1.5&resize=642%2C250

LoneStarMike · #**854** Posted **Aug 19, 2014, 12:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by AusTxDevelopment

Image via The Austin Towers Blog http://i1.wp.com/austintowers.net/wordpr...-red-river.jpg?zoom=1.5&resize=642%2C250

I keep wondering why that parking lot on the southeast corner of Cesar Chavez and Red River hasn't been sold/developed. There was an article in the Austin Business Journal last March about that lot but I never heard anything after that.

Two major sites in downtown Austin about to sell
Land near convention center won’t be blank much longer
By Jan Buchholz
March 29, 2013

Quote:

Two prominent sites of raw land in downtown Austin are under contract, further constricting a tight real estate landscape and confirming what many observers already knew: The Central Business District is one of the most attractive markets in the country.

The southwest and the southeast corners of Cesar Chavez and Red River streets are under contract to two different parties, according to the sellers, Robert Knight and Perry Lorenz.

[SNIP]

Knight said that one buyer group is local and the second is from California.

ahealy · #**855** Posted **Aug 19, 2014, 1:26 PM**

If memory serves me correctly, that lot has one or two old houses and some giant oak trees?

bigdogc · #**856** Posted **Aug 19, 2014, 4:16 PM**

https://www.austintexas.gov/devrevie...erRSN=11198377

Paul pointed this out in another thread. Looks like they put the wrong address by mistake. This could very well be the 91 red river project.

Also- I drove by the property there over the weekend. They have a green sign out front stating the house will be demolished or moved on ~August 27 (was late august, might be off) and would have an open forum for people to speak up.

This could be yet another project in Rainey!

lzppjb · #**857** Posted **Aug 19, 2014, 6:24 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Bluebonnet Studios - 2301 South Lamar
ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/140828/PLANS/AULCC_SP-Bluebonnet%20Studios_PLANS.pdf

http://austintexas.gov/sites/default/fil...luebonnet_Studios_-_FINALreducedsize.pdf

120 units, some for very low income. Planned start of May 2015, finished June 2016.

jngreenlee · #**858** Posted **Aug 19, 2014, 7:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by lzppjb

120 units, some for very low income. Planned start of May 2015, finished June 2016.

This is really close to Zilker Elementary, I wonder if it will be allowed or get killed by NIMBY complaints.

paul78701 · #**859** Posted **Aug 19, 2014, 9:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by bigdogc

https://www.austintexas.gov/devrevie...erRSN=11198377

Paul pointed this out in another thread. Looks like they put the wrong address by mistake. This could very well be the 91 red river project.

Also- I drove by the property there over the weekend. They have a green sign out front stating the house will be demolished or moved on ~August 27 (was late august, might be off) and would have an open forum for people to speak up.

This could be yet another project in Rainey!

Hill Country posted the original link to the permit request:
https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=11198377

Assuming the address really was a mistake, it looks like this site will be another hotel project. I wouldn't be too surprised due to its proximity to the convention center.

AusTxDevelopment · #**860** Posted **Aug 19, 2014, 9:39 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by paul78701

Hill Country posted the original link to the permit request:
https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=11198377

Assuming the address really was a mistake, it looks like this site will be another hotel project. I wouldn't be too surprised due to its proximity to the convention center.

The address may be wrong, but it's not 91 Red River. Below is a link to the tree permit for 91 Red River, and the legal description of the lot is completely different than Millennium Rainey.

91 Red River (see legal description): https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=11192365

"91 Rainey Street" aka Millennium Rainey (see legal description): https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=11198377

(I posted this on the Millennium Rainey thread as well)