AUSTIN | Waterline | 1,034 Feet | 73 Floors | T/O - Page 152

IluvATX · #**3021** Posted **Jan 7, 2025, 4:43 AM**

So this basically has a Skyhouse to go until topping out. Crazy

drummer · #**3022** Posted **Jan 7, 2025, 5:05 PM**

^ That's a good way of putting it. We should do that from now on. Instead of saying something has X stories remaining, we'll say it has <insert building name> left to go. New process for our discussions to make things more entertaining...

davidtexan · #**3023** Posted **Jan 11, 2025, 2:53 AM**

High res images:
https://i.imgur.com/kPoT0mt.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/BtBV9k2.jpeg

Looks like they are about 1/3 done with the residential section. I noticed today it seems the residential section doesn't have the same burnt orange trim as the other sections.

ahealy · #**3024** Posted **Jan 11, 2025, 4:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by davidtexan

Looks like they are about 1/3 done with the residential section. I noticed today it seems the residential section doesn't have the same burnt orange trim as the other sections.

Thank god. Maybe they realized it looked like UT housing

Riverranchdrone · #**3025** Posted **Jan 12, 2025, 5:13 PM**

It would be a lot cooler if it did have the burnt orange all the way up. Hopefully some burnt orange lighting at the top too. It makes a huge impact at ground level but at that high up, not so much.

Armybrat · #**3026** Posted **Jan 12, 2025, 6:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverranchdrone

It would be a lot cooler if it did have the burnt orange all the way up. Hopefully some burnt orange lighting at the top too. It makes a huge impact at ground level but at that high up, not so much.

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Urbannizer · #**3027** Posted **Jan 14, 2025, 6:42 AM**

https://x.com/marshallgeyer/status/1...KAMHVCgfx518rg

Urbannizer · #**3028** Posted **Jan 16, 2025, 4:17 AM**

gillynova · #**3029** Posted **Jan 16, 2025, 8:27 PM**

You caught the homie smiling in the last pic

gillynova · #**3030** Posted **Jan 16, 2025, 9:05 PM**

Urbannizer · #**3031** Posted **Jan 16, 2025, 11:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by ahealy

Thank god. Maybe they realized it looked like UT housing

The orange trim is going up on the NE facing side.

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Originally Posted by gillynova

You caught the homie smiling in the last pic

He insisted on being in the shot

WesternSon · #**3032** Posted **Jan 17, 2025, 3:06 PM**

Wow you have to think the Lakeside Apartments and the World Class property warehouse lots at Trinity and Caesar Chavez have to be probably be the most prime speculative real estate in Austin after Waterline finishes...

The ATX · #**3033** Posted **Jan 18, 2025, 1:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by WesternSon

Wow you have to think the Lakeside Apartments and the World Class property warehouse lots at Trinity and Caesar Chavez have to be probably be the most prime speculative real estate in Austin after Waterline finishes...

Lakeside is City managed senior housing, so that's not likely to be developed any time soon. But something big should happen at the 99 Trinity site pending the CC rebuild.

Urbannizer · #**3034** Posted **Jan 18, 2025, 2:14 AM**

Lakeside should be demolished and redeveloped into a new senior/affordable housing high-rise by the city. Maybe a partnership with a developer? The place is very outdated.

Also 99 Trinity is no longer owned by WCP

Jdawgboy · #**3035** Posted **Jan 18, 2025, 3:54 PM**

Do we know the current approximate height? It's definitely in 2nd place now I'd estimate somewhere in the mid 700s.

Also I kinda like the senior housing building. I think it should be renovated and it probably will at some point but it reminds me of something you'd see in Chicago or a northeastern city and we don't really have anything else like it except maybe the tower east of 35 which is currently going through renovation.

jake.robs · #**3036** Posted **Jan 18, 2025, 6:26 PM**

Maybe 15 floors from the amenity level up to the top of the core, so 775ft?

austlar1 · #**3037** Posted **Jan 18, 2025, 7:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

Lakeside is City managed senior housing, so that's not likely to be developed any time soon. But something big should happen at the 99 Trinity site pending the CC rebuild.

I'm kind of hoping the city will eventually work a swap-out with a developer that might allow for larger replacement senior/disabled housing elsewhere in the cental city in exchange for development rights at this very prime location.

Urbannizer · #**3038** Posted **Jan 19, 2025, 2:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by austlar1

I'm kind of hoping the city will eventually work a swap-out with a developer that might allow for larger replacement senior/disabled housing elsewhere in the cental city in exchange for development rights at this very prime location.

Central city could be anywhere outside of Downtown. Why displace them from a central location?

Riverranchdrone · #**3039** Posted **Jan 20, 2025, 8:02 PM**

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H2O · #**3040** Posted **Jan 21, 2025, 5:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by austlar1

I'm kind of hoping the city will eventually work a swap-out with a developer that might allow for larger replacement senior/disabled housing elsewhere in the cental city in exchange for development rights at this very prime location.

The ideal scenario is a PPP with 99 Trinity. Build new HACA senior housing in a podium wrap around parking on the 99 Trinity site prior to demolishing the existing housing. It would probably result in an increase in the number of units and they would have modern elevators and HVAC, which the current building lacks. Then a market rate tower could be built on the existing HACA site (which extends south of the existing tower). The amenities of the two projects could even be shared.