North Lamar/Burnet Development Thread

[_Matt]

Only 4 floors.. no retail.. Failburger.

[ahealy]

Remind me who the developer is for The Pearl? I seriously want to email them about the zero retail thing....

[_Matt]

Originally Posted by ahealy

Remind me who the developer is for The Pearl? I seriously want to email them about the zero retail thing....

Ledcor

[jbssfelix]

Originally Posted by _Matt

Only 4 floors.. no retail.. Failburger.

I thought the plans intended for a separate building next door to be all retail/commercial. Did that change?

[_Matt]

Originally Posted by jbssfelix

I thought the plans intended for a separate building next door to be all retail/commercial. Did that change?

I don't see that noted anywhere, but even if it is, the Pearl itself a huge frontage of apartments along Koenig that could have had something worth walking to.

[atxsnail]

Posting here, though maybe it belongs somewhere else. The preliminary plan for the Austin State Hospital is out. It looks like it could be nice. I guess my first choice would be that they build higher and open up some of the land for regular development. Given that this is state land, maybe it's as good as it will get.



https://communityimpact.com/austin/c...tate-hospital/

[urbancore]

Originally Posted by atxsnail

Posting here, though maybe it belongs somewhere else. The preliminary plan for the Austin State Hospital is out. It looks like it could be nice. I guess my first choice would be that they build higher and open up some of the land for regular development. Given that this is state land, maybe it's as good as it will get.



https://communityimpact.com/austin/c...tate-hospital/

That is TERRIBLE. Another huge suburban office park in the MIDDLE of a CITY. ZERO street interaction means little-no foot/bike traffic.

This really pisses me off.

[jbssfelix]

Looks like there's some movement at the Lamar Station lot at 7500 N Lamar.

[atxsnail]

Originally Posted by jbssfelix

Looks like there's some movement at the Lamar Station lot at 7500 N Lamar.

i'm guessing it's probably just a staging area for the under-construction Crestview Station apartments.

the site plan filing for Lamar Station is listed as "inactive." the plan did not meet the minimum height of 2-stories for a building in the Lamar/Justin TOD. that sounds like a very expensive surprise for the developer unless there is some waiver process.

[Syndic]

Originally Posted by urbancore

That is TERRIBLE. Another huge suburban office park in the MIDDLE of a CITY. ZERO street interaction means little-no foot/bike traffic.

This really pisses me off.

This rendering from that link makes it look not so bad. There's foot traffic and even a bike. It definitely looks much better than what's there now.

It's a mental hospital guys. Let's not get overly selfish here.

[urbancore]

Originally Posted by Syndic

This rendering from that link makes it look not so bad. There's foot traffic and even a bike. It definitely looks much better than what's there now.

It's a mental hospital guys. Let's not get overly selfish here.

From what I see on the first rendering, there is no relation to Lamar/38th/45th/ or Guad. So sure, everyone inside this pic is walking, but it's closed off to the rest of the city.

I imagine that is what NIMBY's actually want in some weird way.....it's just stupid. Guadalupe and Lamar are "activity corridors" or whatever the city calls them...those streets should be lined with at least 5 story commercial/residential buildings which encourage walking/biking/rail/bus/parachutes/drones....whatever else.

Again, maybe I see the image wrong. But it not ok to make this a development that faces inward in the middle of a city. I get it when it comes to the Domain, it is bound by different types of roads.

[Sigaven]

Originally Posted by urbancore

That is TERRIBLE. Another huge suburban office park in the MIDDLE of a CITY. ZERO street interaction means little-no foot/bike traffic.

This really pisses me off.

I don't see anything wrong with this. It's a closed/secured campus, it's not really supposed to be open to the public and so street interaction wouldn't really make sense. On the plus side it seems, old dilapidated buildings are replaced with a denser plan of updated ones, and there aren't endless seas of parking.

[shoreditch]

I think the major frustration is that they could easily have produced a design with greater vertical density (I'm talking 5 and 6 story buildings, not 2 and 3) on a smaller footprint of land, freeing up acres of underutilized, prime land.

You could develop everything along 45th from Lamar to Guadalupe and south to wherever the smaller, more confined campus ended. Heck, if they don't want to sell the land they could even do 99-year leases and allow development to provide a passive income stream to the State Hosptial.

Sidenote: FWIW, I also don't understand why the State hasn't thought about doing something like this with all the DPS and TxDoT buildings farther north on Lamar.

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by atxsnail

Posting here, though maybe it belongs somewhere else. The preliminary plan for the Austin State Hospital is out. It looks like it could be nice. I guess my first choice would be that they build higher and open up some of the land for regular development. Given that this is state land, maybe it's as good as it will get.



https://communityimpact.com/austin/c...tate-hospital/

FAA crane permits were posted for this -

Crane 1 - 192 feet
https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...64089609&row=1

Crane 2 - 156 feet
https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...64089615&row=2

Crane 3 - 120 feet
https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...64089618&row=3