AUSTIN | Projects & Construction III - Page 7

JoninATX · #1 Posted **May 19, 2012, 9:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Syndic

Can someone refresh my memory? What was planned for that post office location?

ahealy · #2 Posted **May 20, 2012, 4:14 AM**

That isn't planned for the post office site as far as I know...I believe IBC is adjacent to the PO.

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ahealy · #3 Posted **May 20, 2012, 4:39 AM**

$147 million Waller Creek Tunnel Project beneath downtown on time, budget

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/...n-2365543.html

JoninATX · #4 Posted **May 21, 2012, 1:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by ahealy

That isn't planned for the post office site as far as I know...I believe IBC is adjacent to the PO.

Your right, it was a 40st. residential tower that was going to take its place.

AusTxDevelopment · #5 Posted **Jun 13, 2012, 11:02 PM**

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That isn't planned for the post office site as far as I know...I believe IBC is adjacent to the PO.

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The IBC Bank site is directly across 5th Street from the Federal Courthouse, one block west of the Post Office. The above rendering you have from Gensler is old and that grass lawn you see on the right side of the rendering is where the Federal Courthouse is now (they thought their building would be finished first - that old). The new architect is HKS and the new rendering looks completely different. I have a copy of the new rendering but I can't post it because the brokers/developers don't want it leaked to the press before they announce the project, likely before the end of the month. In the new rendering, there's no big floating arm. It has grey/blue glass upper floors with a curved front sort of like Capstar at Compass Plaza, and lower floors have what looks like sandstone/limestone accents. It'll be called IBC Bank Plaza. It'll be about 15-16 stories tall, so not huge but definitely bigger than a mid-rise.

KevinFromTexas · #6 Posted **May 19, 2012, 9:31 PM**

Further back than that they wanted to develop two towers across the street from each other. One would be 35 floors and around 450 to 480 feet tall, while the other was planned as 40+ floors and up to 550 feet.

Syndic · #7 Posted **May 19, 2012, 11:47 PM**

With all of our recent downtown development, I've noticed a trend. This is something that's starting to worry me:

http://www.carfreeinbigd.com/2012/04...all-block.html

If we're talking about creating density, shouldn't that also include density of buildings, as opposed to just density of people?

JoninATX · #8 Posted **May 21, 2012, 12:59 PM**

A better picture of The Whitley building.

http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/17650...zos-Austin-TX/

BevoLJ · #9 Posted **May 21, 2012, 1:57 PM**

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A better picture of The Whitley building.

http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/17650...zos-Austin-TX/

Cool, thanks.

Here it is a little bigger.

http://www.loopnet.com/xnet/mainsite...se&ExactDim=-1

ahealy · #10 Posted **May 21, 2012, 5:44 PM**

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Cool, thanks.

Here it is a little bigger.

http://www.loopnet.com/xnet/mainsite...se&ExactDim=-1

It's not totally terrible after all. My biggest thing is the ground level retail... I am hoping they put something useful in.

MichaelB · #11 Posted **May 21, 2012, 9:18 PM**

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It's not totally terrible after all. My biggest thing is the ground level retail... I am hoping they put something useful in.

Twilight lighting always helps a rendering. It's still the same bland building... just a few lights on it. Just this side of West campus fodder!

ahealy · #12 Posted **May 22, 2012, 1:17 AM**

Has anyone seen this?? Better yet, does anyone have a subscription to ABJ, and wouldn't mind sending me the full article?!!?!?

New renderings of Austin's Seaholm project

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/pr...lic-space.html

Syndic · #13 Posted **May 22, 2012, 5:50 AM**

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Has anyone seen this?? Better yet, does anyone have a subscription to ABJ, and wouldn't mind sending me the full article?!!?!?

New renderings of Austin's Seaholm project

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/pr...lic-space.html

Looks like they're available here: http://www.seaholm.info/html/renderings.html

I like it! The tower got little snazzier.

Nexis4Jersey · #14 Posted **May 22, 2012, 6:19 AM**

Did they tunnel through sand?

KevinFromTexas · #15 Posted **May 22, 2012, 10:46 PM**

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Did they tunnel through sand?

Limestone.

Syndic · #16 Posted **May 24, 2012, 1:07 AM**

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Limestone.

And clay. The clay is almost harder to dig through than the limestone.

ahealy · #17 Posted **May 22, 2012, 5:03 PM**

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looks like they're available here: http://www.seaholm.info/html/renderings.html

i like it! The tower got little snazzier.

it looks sooooooooo gooooooooooooooooodddddddddd

BevoLJ · #18 Posted **May 22, 2012, 7:23 AM**

I don't think Austin has any sand. East of Austin there is maybe a few feet of soil. That black Houston clay. But central and west Austin is pretty much just solid rock. Limestone.

The ATX · #19 Posted **May 22, 2012, 9:10 AM**

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I don't think Austin has any sand. East of Austin there is maybe a few feet of soil. That black Houston clay. But central and west Austin is pretty much just solid rock. Limestone.

The ground around here is riduculous. You almost need a jackhammer to dig a fence post hole.

Jdawgboy · #20 Posted **May 22, 2012, 3:55 PM**

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I don't think Austin has any sand. East of Austin there is maybe a few feet of soil. That black Houston clay. But central and west Austin is pretty much just solid rock. Limestone.

East Austin into eastern Travis County you have the orange colored Sandy loam in some areas the Black clay soil is where the Blackland prarie slices through which is central east Austin from the Northeast part through South Austin in a sliver. We have Blackland prarie clay soil where I live. But go a mile west of here its limestone.