This project may be worthy of its own thread, but I'll post it here for now.
A surface lot at the corner of Lavaca & 17th St. appears to be the site of the "17th Street Hotel" being developed by HRI based in New Orleans. The site has no CVC, and the hotel will have 204 rooms. So depending on whether the parking is above or below ground, this could have decent height for that area. The nearby Guest Quarters hotel has 188 rooms and is 15-stories. Here's the site plan that was filed today. No details yet:
https://abc.austintexas.gov/web/perm...ertyrsn=237032
The site from Streetview: