AUSTIN | Projects & Construction II - Page 101

priller · #**2001** Posted **Dec 12, 2007, 2:34 AM**

No, Altavida is going up steadily now. In fact, I was having the opposite reaction lately, thinking they are really making progress now. The tower part is now taking about a week and a half per level, I think.

Jdawgboy · #**2002** Posted **Dec 12, 2007, 6:49 PM**

Yea the AltaVida tower is really beginning to rise now. I can definatly notice it alot more. Also great shots Mopacs, I love those pictures.

hookem · #**2003** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 1:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by JGFrisco

Potential bad news for 21c? If you go to their website, and try to click on anything, you get an error message. It's been that way for 2 weeks.

Is their sales center open?

Whatever it was, their web site seems to be fixed now. The links are working fine.

Mopacs · #**2004** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 1:19 PM**

Here are a few additional photos from my previous photo set...

This is from Auditorium shores....

Second St and AMLI II

Altavida:

Austonian's 'pit' at Congress and 2nd

360 and Altavida:

Lavaca, looking north toward campus

UT Conference Center/Hotel

Cranes on the southern edge of West Campus (from MLK/Guadalupe):

Complex01 · #**2005** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 3:54 PM**

Ohh, very nice pictures. I just love 360, so sleek and sexy...

arbeiter · #**2006** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 4:41 PM**

that UT conference center sure looks ugly! UT has been reactionary in its design policies for a long time now...

G Lee · #**2007** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 5:13 PM**

There is a new sign at the CLB 7th & Rio Grande site.
They are now calling the project 7Rio.
Im glad to see this because in a previous post I had questioned if the project was dead. Maybe they read my post, the new sign says "The Living Highrise".

MarkyPants2023 · #**2008** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 5:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Complex01

Ohh, very nice pictures. I just love 360, so sleek and sexy...

I used to like it a lot until I started looking at more projects around the country. It looks like a handful of buildings going up in Atlanta and one in Houston. Though the height of it still makes the development a huge deal, I wish the design had been more unique. That said, its still better than Atlanta where it seems this building is going up on every corner.

MichaelB · #**2009** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 6:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by G Lee

There is a new sign at the CLB 7th & Rio Grande site.
They are now calling the project 7Rio.
Im glad to see this because in a previous post I had questioned if the project was dead. Maybe they read my post, the new sign says "The Living Highrise".

Yeah.... I just got an email from them today. I had put my name on their list. It was just: "Happy Holidays and well talk in the new year" basicly. So it looks like it is still alive.

On a similar note: helped some friends at a walk thru yesterday at "Bridges on the park ( same development co). Nice..... very nice. There are some nice details in the units and the lobby... there were also some really stupid things in the details. But overall it felt well built and thought thru. The location is great! My friends place is on the Lamar side on the second floor and I was worried about noise... but any concern is well offset by the expanded terrace the got! LDK has great space..... bedroom tiny. Paggi house will offer room (and poolside) service.... next to townlake trail... east side is city golf course! Entertainment across the street.... Whole Foods accorss the ped bridge. Hum, not bad!

AustinGuy · #**2010** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 6:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by MichaelB

My friends place is on the Lamar side on the second floor and I was worried about noise... but any concern is well offset by the expanded terrace the got!

Did you get a sense of how noisy it was? Everytime I drive past those on Lamar, I wonder about the noise level in the Lamar facing units. The price on those isn't cheap either. When I checked they were more expensive than units at the 360. Not sure if that has changed.

zx14 · #**2011** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 8:32 PM**

Would I be right in assuming that the Austonian will rise very quickly once it gets to the tower stage. The building is quite skinny and each floor or the tower section looks not even half of 360. The race is on! What building will reach 30 stories first Spring or Austonian. What does everyone think. Also the expressways in austin are wonderfull. Though crowded during the day atnight whell I should say my license is safe here in Ky. But if I lived in Austin go ZX14 go I could sustain a constant speed with no traffic of God knows what from 1431 all the way down to south Austin. I dont ride like that but if i lived in Austin it would be tempting.

priller · #**2012** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 9:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by zx14

The race is on! What building will reach 30 stories first Spring or Austonian. What does everyone think.

I think the Spring will win that easily. It should start rising above ground level within the next few weeks. The Austonian still probably will take several months to get to that point.

hookem · #**2013** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 10:38 PM**

I might be the only who thinks this, but I still have this gut feeling that there is only a 50% chance both of these projects (Spring and Austonian) will ever rise beyond the ground level.

Doesn't the financing needed for the more expensive stages of building hinge upon reaching some sort of pre-sales goal? Is that really possible for both of these buildings?

I really hope I'm wrong, but I recall seeing several projects put indefinitely "on hold" at right about the same stage last time I visited FL. Getting financing for the lot, demolition, site prep and foundation is much less of a stretch than actually getting the money to build and finish out 40+ stories... there are still some significant hurdles, or so I thought.

LiveattheOasis · #**2014** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 11:26 PM**

I am going to hope that there is absolutely no stock in what you are saying, though I imagine these projects are really eyeing what goes on at Monarch, AMLI and 360 right about now.

Sexas · #**2015** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 11:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by hookem

I might be the only who thinks this, but I still have this gut feeling that there is only a 50% chance both of these projects (Spring and Austonian) will ever rise beyond the ground level.

Doesn't the financing needed for the more expensive stages of building hinge upon reaching some sort of pre-sales goal? Is that really possible for both of these buildings?

I really hope I'm wrong, but I recall seeing several projects put indefinitely "on hold" at right about the same stage last time I visited FL. Getting financing for the lot, demolition, site prep and foundation is much less of a stretch than actually getting the money to build and finish out 40+ stories... there are still some significant hurdles, or so I thought.

I just checked with Austonian sales agent (512.623.3633), so far the pre-sale is on target. And a little bird told me Benchmark thinking about build another high-end one if the sale on this one going well. As for Spring...I'm not really srue, It just look so urgy inside, I personally don't really care they ever build that thing at all.

just a foot note: Austonian sales brochure is out of this world...it look more like a coffee table book

JGFrisco · #**2016** Posted **Dec 15, 2007, 12:59 AM**

First, the Austonian insists they don't need certain percentages of sales to proceed. Second, it just takes a while to build the foundation for a building that tall and slender.

It still looks good...but 21c's web site is still not responding beyond the front page...

sss1234 · #**2017** Posted **Dec 15, 2007, 1:28 AM**

The 21c website is working for me. I know something was up with it a couple of days ago, but it seems to be fixed now.

zx14 · #**2018** Posted **Dec 15, 2007, 2:23 AM**

Lets hope the projects under construction dont go bust before the get off the ground. because judging from the history of Austin if they do stop for some reason it might be a long time before we see anything of size get built. Wonder if the 32 story building (forgot the exact name) had been started just a little later. That building was completed in 1984 and the economy went bust just a few months after it opened. Atleast that is what I remember. After that it was 5 years before the complex of highrises was built near the river. Then another 13 before they built the new one on 6th. Now we are in a boom and I hope that the economy does not bust all at once leaving the carnage of half built buildings on our horizon. Personally I am not worried that much and think we have years of a transforming skyline to look forward to. Except Stacy`s which I think wont look anything like we had hoped if built at all.

jordan · #**2019** Posted **Dec 15, 2007, 2:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by zx14

Lets hope the projects under construction dont go bust before the get off the ground. because judging from the history of Austin if they do stop for some reason it might be a long time before we see anything of size get built. Wonder if the 32 story building (forgot the exact name) had been started just a little later. That building was completed in 1984 and the economy went bust just a few months after it opened. Atleast that is what I remember. After that it was 5 years before the complex of highrises was built near the river. Then another 13 before they built the new one on 6th. Now we are in a boom and I hope that the economy does not bust all at once leaving the carnage of half built buildings on our horizon. Personally I am not worried that much and think we have years of a transforming skyline to look forward to. Except Stacy`s which I think wont look anything like we had hoped if built at all.

You are pretty close. The buildings went something like this 1971 823 Congress around 1972 the Dobie Building (UT)1974-75 Chase Bank & The black box Bank of America.1980-84 The Morgan Chase Building, One American Center & the Old Frost Bank on Congress across from 823

Congress, Wells Fargo Tower. 1986-89 One Congress Plaza, San Jacinto Tower, 301 Congress,100 Congress, Austin Omni, After the year 2000. 300 W 6th, Austin Hilton, Amli Block 22, The Monarch, 360 Condos, The Shore. 2007 Under construciton Altivida, Spring, Austoian, The Legacy.

JGFrisco · #**2020** Posted **Dec 15, 2007, 2:42 PM**

Yes, I just found the 21c site to be working too. I had sent an email to the guy listed as the construction contact, but he never responded. I'll try a different person and see if we can't get some info.