Austin | The Linden (17th & Guadalupe) | 333 Feet | 28 Floors | Complete

[KevinFromTexas]

I've always thought of the Midtown area as being the area around 51st & Guadalupe up around the Triangle.

If downtown is downtown, then the area around the Triangle is Midtown, which leaves The Domain as the true Uptown. I even tend to think of The Domain as being more uppity anyway in a squeaky clean and more buttoned down manner than downtown is.

Anyway, this area shouldn't be lumped in with the Capitol complex. The reason is the Capitol complex is all state owned land, whereas this isn't. It's commercial real estate even if they lease to the state. The William P. Clements State office building, for example, which is that big white one with the arched roof that we vs us posted, was originally developed as a commercial office building.

Officially, the boundary lines of downtown are from Lamar Boulevard east to I-35, and from Cesar Chavez Street north to MLK. I also don't think that zoning rules should necessarily dictate neighborhood labels. After all, there are areas within the official boundary lines of downtown that are not zoned CBD...yet. Those areas can't even build to a level that the Domain, West Campus or what I've been quasi-calling, the south shore area, which is from Lamar to I-35 between Barton Springs Road and the river.