Hi Echostatic.I’ve been a lurker for a pretty long time in the Austin forum.
Yeah it’s pretty exiting and its pretty much what I think is going to happen to most strip malls in Austin.
It’s not often that a building breaks ground in downtown Austin without us knowing the details — we’re not bragging, that’s literally our job and spending all our time downtown makes it hard to miss. But as construction fences started rising at the 15-story Shoal Creek Walk office tower site at 835 West Sixth Street sitting just east of the flagship Whole Foods Market store and corporate headquarters on the west end of downtown, we realized that while we knew the basics of what was being built there thanks to coverage in the Austin Business Journal from both this summer and all the way back in 2017, we had no clue how the new building would actually look.
This second-phase addition, which city filings indicate is being developed at least in part by Endeavor Real Estate Group on behalf of Whole Foods, will add a new five-story office building and seven-level parking structure to the existing Shoal Creek Walk tower complex that will serve as expansion space for the Whole Foods corporate offices next door, adding 143,800 square feet of office space and 127,104 square feet of garage parking for the now Amazon-owned grocer — and thanks to the ABJ’s extensive coverage of this project, the fact that we’d never actually seen a rendering or even a drawing of the new building’s appearance from its architects at Gensler Austin completely slipped our minds. Whoops! Anyway, here it is
Sources said Facebook is looking for so much space downtown, no one building can accommodate it. If it does move forward with these deals, the social media giant will lease more downtown space than any other company.
That's good news. Hopefully, we can see some more big office towers break ground then - the BBVA Tower and The Republic come to mind. That would be sweet.
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That's good news. Hopefully, we can see some more big office towers break ground then - the BBVA Tower and The Republic come to mind. That would be sweet.
Indeed, what's the status on 5C by the way? All of those would be incredible.
Indeed, what's the status on 5C by the way? All of those would be incredible.
It's still going the through the approval process. Last May the developer was quoted in the Austin Business Journal saying that they still planned to break ground on Tower 5C and their BBVA (PNC?) Tower in January despite the pandemic. But that won't happen because both projects still appear to be months away from site plan approval.
Here are some larger renderings and layout plan for the redevelopment of the Brodie Oaks Shopping Center in South Austin. It looks like there will be 7 buildings. I'm not sure of all the heights/sizes, but at least 4 of them from the renderings appear to be midrise to highrise. One of the documents filed with the city said one of the towers would be 275 feet tall, and another would be 160 feet. Those heights might be for more than one building, I'm not sure. 275 feet would be the tallest building in South Austin, and that area also sits at around 700 feet above sea level, which is a good 250 feet higher than downtown along the river.
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It shows more of our urban core than any single photo I’ve seen in awhile and it still omits about 1/3 of our urban core north of the river and 1/2 of what is south of the river.
I've never noticed it before, but in that photo I can really see how similar Austin's skyline is to Midtown Atlanta. A clear north-south corridor, a forested single-family grid to the east, and a developed corridor stretching far to the east (6th street in Austin, Ponce in Atlanta).
Oracle has moved their HQ from Redwood City, CA to Austin per their 11/30/20 SEC filing.
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Oracle is implementing a more flexible employee work location policy and has changed its Corporate Headquarters from Redwood City, California to Austin, Texas. We believe these moves best position Oracle for growth and provide our personnel with more flexibility about where and how they work. Depending on their role, this means that many of our employees can choose their office location as well as continue t
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