AUSTIN | Project Updates Thread Part II - Page 442

Urbannizer · #**8821** Posted **May 23, 2024, 5:59 AM**

IluvATX · #**8822** Posted **May 23, 2024, 1:06 PM**

I’m sorry, but that thing is not a park. And look how the sidewalk jogs around that manhole or whatever is under that cone.

Jdawgboy · #**8823** Posted **May 23, 2024, 2:38 PM**

Yea that isn't a park, It is a plaza. A park would mean plantlife. Plazas are needed though, however, hopefully they add in some sort of vegetation. Trying to curb urban desertification, not enhance it...

gillynova · #**8824** Posted **May 23, 2024, 3:29 PM**

Agreed but better than what it was before

paul78701 · #**8825** Posted **May 23, 2024, 5:08 PM**

From what I understood, this is only temporary until they can come up with a final plan.

ahealy · #**8826** Posted **May 23, 2024, 5:49 PM**

Ahh yes, what a lovely park. Just the place I'd love to be at around 2pm in August.

davidtexan · #**8827** Posted **May 23, 2024, 10:30 PM**

They will be adding eight artsy benches to the park.

https://austin.towers.net/rainey-str...k-this-summer/

enragedcamel · #**8828** Posted **May 24, 2024, 9:21 PM**

That's honestly pathetic.

ahealy · #**8829** Posted **May 24, 2024, 10:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by enragedcamel

That's honestly pathetic.

Lmao. Oh for real. "art" lolol. Also cracking up because those fking things will be like sitting on a frying pan in the summer. I get that it's somewhat temporary, but even with that I kinda hate it.

Riverranchdrone · #**8830** Posted **May 24, 2024, 10:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by ahealy

Lmao. Oh for real. "art" lolol. Also cracking up because those fking things will be like sitting on a frying pan in the summer. I get that it's somewhat temporary, but even with that I kinda hate it.

Still better than the poo sculptures around the Independent and Trader joes.

migol24 · #**8831** Posted **May 25, 2024, 5:52 AM**

Y'all don't get art.

ahealy · #**8832** Posted **May 25, 2024, 1:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by migol24

Y'all don't get art.

WestAustinite · #**8833** Posted **May 25, 2024, 4:24 PM**

Those are going to get tagged about 10 minutes after they are installed.

urbancore · #**8834** Posted **May 25, 2024, 10:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by WestAustinite

Those are going to get tagged about 10 minutes after they are installed.

I’ll take the under.

etmav · #**8835** Posted **May 25, 2024, 10:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbancore

I’ll take the under.

Tagging might happen while they are being installed

Jdawgboy · #**8836** Posted **May 26, 2024, 3:16 PM**

Actually workers will soon discover when opening the storage building that the benches are in that they have been tagged...

IluvATX · #**8837** Posted **May 26, 2024, 3:38 PM**

Poor little Gus.

Urbannizer · #**8838** Posted **May 30, 2024, 11:49 PM**

A Residential Project Dips a Toe Into Sixth Street’s Bar District at The Grant

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The apartment project planned for the Grant Plaza offices at 611 East Sixth Street would be the first major residential development built inside downtown Austin’s infamous Sixth Street entertainment district in a generation — and even before a certain sense of uncertainty struck our local real estate market, the proposal first surfaced in 2022 by New York-based investment firm Empire Square Group and national developers Ryan Companies seemed fairly audacious.

It’s oddly reassuring, then, that Empire and Ryan Companies’ plans for redeveloping a full downtown block at Grant Plaza continue to chug along, with representatives for the 258-unit apartment and retail project appearing before the Architectural Review Committee of the city’s Historic Landmark Commission earlier this month. (Although the existing office building at the site is not historic, only dating back to 1981, it’s still inside the Sixth Street National Register Historic District!) The proposed apartments, known as The Grant and designed by Plano-based firm HLR Architects, will also include two ground-level retail spaces facing East Sixth Street, together containing roughly 8,600 square feet — that’s a big win for positive street life in the district, with at least one of the spaces likely to be occupied by a restaurant tenant.

clubtokyo · #**8839** Posted **May 31, 2024, 12:44 AM**

I like it!

wwmiv · #**8840** Posted **May 31, 2024, 7:21 AM**

Opposed to this. Period. This is moving backward, not forward, and destroys better built structures for ticky tacky crap built to subpar current standards that’ll last 30 years max. The two existing structures facing 6th could be easily preserved (they’re already “built to last”) and turned into some sort of venues or retail.

And also: this style of housing has no business facing 6th street directly. At all. Stupid planning. In fact, NO housing should be on 6th Street AT ALL unless we are trying to kickstart and orchestrate development killing the last vestige of a cohesive party district in downtown Austin. After all, Rainey, 4th, and Red River have been developed to death. The babies have already been thrown out with the bath water, are we about to evict our teenager, too? They each started with projects like this (Millennium in Rainey, for instance). Let’s not take steps to put ourselves on the pathway to looking back in 20 years mourning the loss of an integral part of Austin’s appeal.

Yes, we have a housing problem. Let’s not create other problems by putting housing anywhere and everywhere—that won’t work and will cause chaos where we don’t need it.