AUSTIN | Projects & Construction II - Page 431

KevinFromTexas · #**8601** Posted **Mar 25, 2011, 9:02 PM**

This article mentions that the apartment project planned for the former Whitley Printing site could be a high rise. The block has no height restriction.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/print-edition/2011/03/25/downtown-developers-getting-ready.html

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Downtown developers getting ready

Riverside Resources may be big player in years to come
Austin Business Journal - by Jacob Dirr , ABJ Staff
Date: Friday, March 25, 2011, 5:00am CDT

A spurt of quiet real estate activity in downtown Austin is under way, a precursor perhaps to the next wave of development in the area.

Austin-based Riverside Resources Corp., known as a stealthy, no-nonsense developer, is under contract to buy the half-block Whitley Printing Co. building at Third and Brazos streets, which is unencumbered by Capitol-view height restrictions, a broker confirmed, meaning the building could be a high-rise.

wwmiv · #**8602** Posted **Mar 25, 2011, 11:04 PM**

This is the ABJ. They're just saying it could be a high rise because the site zoning won't get in the way. I'll believe a high rise when I see a high rise.

KevinFromTexas · #**8603** Posted **Mar 27, 2011, 8:56 PM**

Capitol 10K run in Austin. 23,000 showed up in what was the 3rd largest attendance of the race's history.
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/cap-10k-draws-3rd-largest-crowd-in-race-1353726.html

Statesman gallery.
http://galleries.statesman.com/gallery/2011-capitol-10000-032711/#163050

Reader photos.
http://galleries.statesman.com/gallery/readers-2011-capitol-10000-photos/

(Kelly West AMERICAN-STATESMAN)
34th annual Capitol 10,000 on March 27, 2011.
http://galleries.statesman.com/gallery/2011-capitol-10000-032711/#162888

(Kelly West AMERICAN-STATESMAN)
Runners participate in the 34th annual Capitol 10,000 on March 27, 2011.
http://galleries.statesman.com/gallery/2011-capitol-10000-032711/#162889

JoninATX · #**8604** Posted **Mar 27, 2011, 9:15 PM**

I'm just glad that to see or hear some new proposals that are in the works. If feels like 2005 again to me.

M1EK · #**8605** Posted **Mar 27, 2011, 10:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by Somnio

Why?

Run light rail up Guadalupe and Lamar to Tech Ridge. Elevate the tracks on the Red Line over Lamar. That would be a minimal cost, and they already did that over the UP tracks.

Another interesting piece of info. that relates to this is that Round Rock is about to start their own bus service that will tie in to the Tech Ridge Park & Ride.

The justification for the incredible disruption on the Drag (especially 27th to 30th, where there would be 1 lane left for cars/buses; no, not one lane each way, one lane total) was that it'd be carrying 40,000 boardings/day. You won't get that much if you require a transfer; you won't get that much continuing north; you won't get an elevated train over the intersection at Lamar/Airport anyways; you just won't get it (or, like many people in town, are disingenuous or naive about what we lost).

The era of big transit projects in small cities is over - we can't even get big transit projects in big cities done these days (can't get a subway built in New Friggin' York). There's no chance of things like subways or elevated rail in a medium-sized burg like ours. There's precisely one recipe that works in cities like ours, even though everybody's desperately trying to pretend it's much more complicated because they don't like the answer.

LIGHT FRIGGING RAIL. In a railway corridor in the suburbs so you can go fast, then in the street closer in so you can hit good destinations (and maybe some urban residential pickups).

This is what every successful city has done (with the exception of Houston, whose line is just about 100% in-street - but they had a corridor where there was enough pre-existing commuting demand to make even that a smash hit).

Nobody has EVER succeeded with what we're doing with the Red Line. What's success look like? How about five digit boardings on a weekday for starters - the LEAST successful light rail lines in the modern era are in the 15,000 - 20,000 boardings/day range. The Red Line, after the recent success, is topping out at about 1500 boardings/day.

JoninATX · #**8606** Posted **Mar 29, 2011, 8:22 AM**

pavilion

Battery Park New York,NY

Just a concept of what can be used for our parks, when you look at it it's a spot to escape grab a drink, eat, relax especially to escape the heat from the summer and could revenue money from concerts like SXSW and the ACL Fest.

http://secret-architecture.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html

KevinFromTexas · #**8607** Posted **Mar 29, 2011, 9:30 PM**

This is a rendering of a planned 8-story project planned for the TMI Castle site on West 11th Street called Castle East Condominiums. It's designed by Dick Clark Architecture.

http://www.bigreddog.com/experience.html

http://www.bigreddog.com/experience.html

M1EK · #**8608** Posted **Mar 29, 2011, 10:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

This is a rendering of a planned 8-story project planned for the TMI Castle site on West 11th Street called Castle East Condominiums. It's designed by Dick Clark Architecture.

http://www.bigreddog.com/experience.html

http://www.bigreddog.com/experience.html

Are you sure? Looks to me like it was a proposal "for a previous employer" that didn't go anywhere. I haven't heard of any project on this site coming back to life, and I'm on the OWANA list (still own property there).

ROCrot · #**8609** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 12:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by M1EK

Are you sure? Looks to me like it was a proposal "for a previous employer" that didn't go anywhere. I haven't heard of any project on this site coming back to life, and I'm on the OWANA list (still own property there).

It's on Big Red Dog's website. What you won't find (unless you had it previously and saved it somewhere) is what Intel's planned building looked like.

KevinFromTexas · #**8610** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 3:25 AM**

Aerials.
http://www.justinwallacephotography.com/austin-aerial-photography/

Cool website here, that posts a new Austin photo daily.
http://austintexasdailyphoto.blogspot.com/

KevinFromTexas · #**8611** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 3:29 AM**

Seaholm Hotel & Condos. It looks like it's around 300 feet tall or so.

http://www.seaholm.info/

JoninATX · #**8612** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 3:38 AM**

Looks nice...

KevinFromTexas · #**8613** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 4:02 AM**

By the way, is that the new central library to the far right?

StoOgE · #**8614** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 6:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by JoninATX

pavilion

Battery Park New York,NY

Just a concept of what can be used for our parks, when you look at it it's a spot to escape grab a drink, eat, relax especially to escape the heat from the summer and could revenue money from concerts like SXSW and the ACL Fest.

http://secret-architecture.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html

Battery Park looks nowhere near that nice :lol

wwmiv · #**8615** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 11:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Seaholm Hotel & Condos. It looks like it's around 300 feet tall or so.

http://www.seaholm.info/

That looks much taller than originally planned. I'm very glad.

As for the library: The building is probably just a placeholder. It is in the location, but it much too small to be the actual new library.

nixcity · #**8616** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 5:03 PM**

Any ideas why they are re-releasing this rendering now.

MichaelB · #**8617** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 6:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by nixcity

Any ideas why they are re-releasing this rendering now.

good question... the verbiage on the site still talks about a 2010 opening. Oooops

ahealy · #**8618** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 7:25 PM**

I really hope we can begin to see the Seaholm district evolve and grow soon. Has anyone heard any new developments with the Capstar/Gables office tower?

jowens · #**8619** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 7:49 PM**

I'm waiting on M1EK take on the light rail article in today's Statesman.

KevinFromTexas · #**8620** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 10:22 PM**

I counted the floors in that new Seaholm rendering. It's 26 floors.

They've had several variants of the design and size for the Seaholm Hotel. It was first announced as a 10-story building with an 11th-level sun deck.

Then they released the 2nd rendering which showed a 20-story building. They later announced it as being 22 floors, but I don't think the renderings showed it at that height.

Here are the old renderings:

10-story version.

This one seems to show it at 20 floors and maybe 250 feet or so.

This one was harder to count, but seems to be at 20 or 21 floors. I think it's the same as the one above, just less detail.

And the new one. This one seems to be at about 300 feet. The tallest smoke stack is supposedly 121 feet tall. This one shows more detail, too. If you look, they have the landscaping planned out more. The smaller buildings in the project have more detail, too. I also noticed it looks like they're planning on putting glass around the structural framing on the Seaholm building just to the left (north) of the smoke stacks. I wonder what they'll use that space for.