AUSTIN | Projects & Construction II - Page 21

KevinFromTexas · #**401** Posted **Mar 23, 2007, 10:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by kingkirbythegreat

Make a reservation, or you'll have a looooooong wait.

Thanks for the tip. I've never been there and actually got a gift card to eat there with my family for doing the model for the developer. It'll be fun.

Has anyone heard the outcome of the vote by city council on the post office towers? They were supposed to be voting on it lastnight.

In other news...

From the Austin American-Statesman
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/03/24/24concordia.html

AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL
Council sets special Monday meeting on Concordia project
Campus would include hotel, offices and university

AMERICAN STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, March 23, 2007

The Austin City Council postponed for a second time today the final zoning vote on the proposed multimillion dollar redevelopment of the Concordia University campus.

The Council has scheduled a special meeting Monday afternoon for the vote. That pushes action down to the wire for developers to be able to close on schedule Thursday on the purchase of the 22-acre campus at Interstate 35 and 32nd Street.

Officials of Concordia said any delay wouldjeopardize their deal to buy the former Schlumberger office campus in North Austin, which they want to make the university's new home. That deal also is set to close Thursday.

The Council was scheduled to vote Thursday on the East Avenue project, which had made its way through all of the city approval steps and preliminary Council approval.

But the vote was tabled because some key documents were not ready. The documents still weren't complete this afternoon.

Some council members said they didn't like the fact that they were under pressure to rush through a vote on such a major project without all the pieces in place.

The East Avenue developers are proposing to build 1,400 residences, several hundred thousand square feet of office and retail space and a hotel on the campus. Some neighbors said that level of density is out of place near residential neighborhoods, and raised concerns about the increased traffic the project would generate.

Kropotkin · #**402** Posted **Mar 26, 2007, 7:31 PM**

What's the latest on Spring?

I rode by the site-to-be and the current structure is still there and the utilities are connected, etc.

I wonder if we have another La Vista on Lavaca on our hands?

AustinGuy · #**403** Posted **Mar 26, 2007, 8:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kropotkin

What's the latest on Spring?

As far as I know, they've been busy trying to convert their reservations into actual contracts these last few weeks. I'm curious as to how well that process is going. Has anyone on the forum purchased one?

Kevinb · #**404** Posted **Mar 26, 2007, 9:26 PM**

I recently stopped by Spring for a "Conversion Event". The sales office is very nice and staff friendly. The Prices are clearly marked and attached to the floorplan displays. Based upon the building diagram and "sold" stickers, I counted 68 sales. Very low pressure sales situation - I wasn't even asked if I was interested! Maybe they thought I was another firefighter or teacher that was mostly interested in having my deposit refunded...

sakyle04 · #**405** Posted **Mar 26, 2007, 10:08 PM**

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Maybe they thought I was another firefighter or teacher that was mostly interested in having my deposit refunded...

Strayone · #**406** Posted **Mar 26, 2007, 10:46 PM**

The website for the Block 21 developers Boka Powell shows a project called 98 San Jacinto residences, how come we never hear anything about this? Is this otherwise known as the Four Seasons residences?

KevinFromTexas · #**407** Posted **Mar 26, 2007, 11:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by Strayone

Is this otherwise known as the Four Seasons residences?

Yes. Check the first page of this thread for info on it. And check the rendering's post in this thread. It's the 2nd post in the first page of this thread. It's under approved.

The original article about the annoucement of the project is in the old thread. To get there you have to go into the thread archive. Use that scroll down list at the bottom right and scroll it down all the way to the bottom. The thread archive is the last section on that list. You can do that or go directly to the thread's link, (which would be easier), just go to page 1 of this thread and it's linked there at the very top of the thread and highlighted in red bold letters.

GoldenBoot · #**408** Posted **Mar 27, 2007, 7:04 PM**

590-KLBJ Radio news-blurb...

JACKinBeantown · #**409** Posted **Mar 27, 2007, 7:16 PM**

Sweet!

Kropotkin · #**410** Posted **Mar 27, 2007, 9:28 PM**

Sweetness.

KevinFromTexas · #**411** Posted **Mar 28, 2007, 12:44 AM**

Awesome!

OfCourse · #**412** Posted **Mar 28, 2007, 3:24 AM**

Hey, that looks great! I can't wait to hop on.

Strayone · #**413** Posted **Mar 28, 2007, 3:32 AM**

Oh man I wanna ride it just for fun, and free wi/fi to boot.

KevinFromTexas · #**414** Posted **Mar 28, 2007, 4:53 AM**

Does anyone know how much it'll cost to ride?

Mopacs · #**415** Posted **Mar 28, 2007, 4:59 PM**

From today's Austin Business Journal web edition:

http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2007/03/26/daily20.html?jst=b_ln_hl

Commuter rail gets closer with new trains

Austin Business Journal - 11:48 AM CDT Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Capital Metro's first urban commuter rail train is a long way from home at Stadler Rail Group's Switzerland manufacturing plant, but it's already making an impact in Austin as the first of six diesel-electric trains to have finished assembly.

Stadler has begun static testing of the rail train, and will begin track testing in the next few months. The new train will arrive in Austin for more track testing here this fall. Cap Metro purchased the six rail cars from Stadler for more than $30 million

The six trains will make up Austin's commuter rail fleet, scheduled to begin running every 30 minutes during morning and afternoon rush hours from Leander to downtown Austin. Commuter rail service is scheduled to begin in late 2008.

Each train will have room for approximately 200 passengers, or 108 seated.

MetroRail is part of the All Systems Go long-range transit plan, which also includes expanded local and express bus service, park and ride services, rapid bus service and possibly more rail service in Central Texas.

Northcrossed · #**416** Posted **Mar 28, 2007, 5:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Does anyone know how much it'll cost to ride?

About a billion dollars.

MichaelB · #**417** Posted **Mar 29, 2007, 12:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Northcrossed

About a billion dollars.

bitter

M1EK · #**418** Posted **Mar 29, 2007, 9:21 PM**

Here's the picture of the vehicle you'll be transferring to once you get off the train at the train station. Not quite as exciting.

More here...

sakyle04 · #**419** Posted **Mar 29, 2007, 9:29 PM**

The rendering is missing about 412 cars that would be stacked up in the lane on the left-hand side there. One lane for cars in DT Austin?

M1EK · #**420** Posted **Mar 29, 2007, 9:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by sakyle04

The rendering is missing about 412 cars that would be stacked up in the lane on the left-hand side there. One lane for cars in DT Austin?

Actually, it's fair - there's not much car traffic on this street today. But what that says about the commuter rail line is even worse - the reason there's not much car traffic is that this part of downtown is dead as a doornail - the only activity is the Convention Center (which, unfortunately, squats over about 4 city blocks) and the big Hilton.

The Convention Center doesn't exactly have a lot of daily commuters - and the Hilton employees are largely the transit-dependent (already taking the bus in large numbers). The office workers we're supposed to be shooting for with this rail start are a half-mile or more away out by Congress (too far for most people to be willing to walk every day, hence the circulator even for downtown).