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Originally Posted by priller
I've typed out "Austonian" so many times that yesterday, when filling out a form online, I typed "Auston" for the city name.
Speaking of which, the Austonian moved up to 44th floor today! Now tied with with 360 for the most floors in Austin.
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Originally Posted by Mopacs
Awesome! From my office complex, the eye-level height of the Austonian is now taller than the main roof of 360. This takes into account elevation differences. Both are roughly the same distance from my vantage point. We're perhaps a month away from the Austonian 'officially' taking the honor of Austin's tallest.
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I just saw it a few minutes ago from Stassney Lane between South Congress & I-35. I'll have to ride up there and check and take a photo to be sure, but it looked like it had blocked the view of the Frost Bank Tower completely. Not sure, it was hard to tell with the smoke from Mexico, but it's definitely getting up there. I haven't gone out riding and taking photos lately. I threw my back out earlier this week and was walking like an old man. lol
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Originally Posted by arbeiter
Is there any map out there or record kept on the empty lots downtown? I was walking through downtown a few nights ago and was still dismayed - there is a lot of room for growth.
The biggest parking lots that could stand to go away are the Las Manitas graveyard, the 3rd and Congress parking lot, the 4th and Colorado parking lot with the infamous steep staircase (how many drunk broads have slipped on their stilettos at that very spot?) and the lot in front of Republic Square. Forgive me since I've been gone for 5 years, but are there proposals out to put buildings on these three lots?
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Las Manitas is planned to be redeveloped with a 31-story, 1,000 room Marriott Hotel convention center hotel. It will cover the entire block.
There's an 18-story hotel planned for the 3rd & Congress "lot". The building will be situated on the west side of the block, probably facing Colorado Street.
The block south of Republic Square was planned to have a ~446 foot, 30-story, 500,000 sq ft office tower. The Austin Museum of Art would have had a new museum in the podium level of the building. Hines was the developer, and the building was to be designed by Cesar Pelli. There are renderings of the tower on the first page of this thread. Hines pulled the plug on the tower though, so the museum too will have to wait.
And as far as I know, there isn't anything planned for the lot between Colorado & Congress at 4th Street.
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