AUSTIN | Projects & Construction III - Page 106

KevinFromTexas · #1 Posted **Jul 7, 2013, 8:30 PM**

Lame. They sure are concerned with their issues without much consideration of anyone else's. They should have built that museum along some highway somewhere. Also I think it's laughable to assume patrons to the museum who are so concerned about their precious parking lot would agree to walk all the way across the bridge across the river anyway. They have a suburban mindset of "me, me, me" and where's my parking lot?

lzppjb · #2 Posted **Jul 7, 2013, 9:49 PM**

The MACC is stupid. The pontoon bridge idea is stupid.

zedaref · #3 Posted **Jul 10, 2013, 1:51 AM**

World Class withdrew the zoning change request: Austin Business Journal

KevinFromTexas · #4 Posted **Jul 10, 2013, 4:18 AM**

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...lects-dwg.html

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Jul 9, 2013, 6:00pm CDT
Fairmont Austin developer selects dwg. for landscaping assignment

Jan Buchholz
Staff Writer-
Austin Business Journal

Dwg., an Austin-based landscape architectural firm, has been selected to handle landscaping for the new Fairmont Austin Hotel, which will be built at the northeast corner of Cesar Chavez and Red River streets.

Developer Manchester Financial Group LLC announced the selection Tuesday. Manchester is planning to break ground on the $350 million, 50-story hotel in November with completion by summer 2016.

pscajunguy · #5 Posted **Jul 10, 2013, 4:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...lects-dwg.html

That's great news. I think we are getting closer to feeling a lot more certain that this project is on track.

BevoLJ · #6 Posted **Jul 14, 2013, 1:53 AM**

Any chance the population, commuter and such discussion could have its own thread so this can be more focused on tall buildings?

KevinFromTexas · #7 Posted **Jul 14, 2013, 11:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by BevoLJ

Any chance the population, commuter and such discussion could have its own thread so this can be more focused on tall buildings?

I moved those posts to their own thread.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=206535

That title is way generic, though. Anyone have a better idea for one? Maybe we can use it as our defacto population discussion thread for when estimates are released.

JoninATX · #8 Posted **Jul 14, 2013, 3:11 AM**

Yes, what BevoLJ said. Need pictures of what's happening in Austin.

pscajunguy · #9 Posted **Jul 14, 2013, 5:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by JoninATX

Yes, what BevoLJ said. Need pictures of what's happening in Austin.

I'm ready to see some height on Bowie and some new pics of the lakefront with the Gables Tower finished.

Austin1971 · #10 Posted **Jul 15, 2013, 5:35 PM**

Lincoln Property plans downtown office tower

Jan BuchholzStaff Writer- Austin Business Journal

Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co. is planning to build a nine-story office building on the southwest corner of West Fifth and Colorado streets in downtown Austin.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...-downtown.html

Does that mean 6 above ground parking levels plus the 9 stories on top of the parking?

zedaref · #11 Posted **Jul 15, 2013, 6:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Austin1971

Does that mean 6 above ground parking levels plus the 9 stories on top of the parking?

That's what I'm thinking. Surely you wouldn't need 6 levels of parking for just a few floors of offices.

ATXboom · #12 Posted **Jul 15, 2013, 7:01 PM**

BoA building I'm in at 6th and Congress has 9 floors of parking at 16 floors of office...

Now the footpring looks smaller but I have to imagine with 6 floors of parking you'd have at least 9 floors of office... Will parking be above or below grade?

Austin_Expert · #13 Posted **Jul 15, 2013, 11:04 PM**

It has to mean 6 floors of parking with nine floors of office above. Ther's no way you could fit 179,000 square feet of office space on 3 floors with such a small footprint.

A fifteen floor office building with ground floor retail will be a huge improvement over the current surface parking lot.

wwmiv · #14 Posted **Jul 15, 2013, 5:35 PM**

Only 9 stories for there!?!? What a waste.

KevinFromTexas · #15 Posted **Jul 16, 2013, 12:07 AM**

They must have meant it'll be 9 floors of office over 6 floors of parking. They said the building would have 179,000 square feet of space. If that's not counting the parking garage that would mean the 3 office floors would have roughly 58,000 square feet each. I seriously doubt that would be the case. Most buildings typically have 20,000 to 25,000 square foot floor plates. That site is simply not large enough to have nearly 60,000 square foot floor plates.

173,000 square feet divided among 9 floors would be 19,222 square feet.

By the way, it was also Lincoln Property Co. that developed 100 Congress. They also teamed up with HKS, Inc. who designed it. They're both doing this tower as well. Hopefully it'll be something nice. HKS, Inc. does nice buildings. And this should obscure the fugly east wall of the Plaza Lofts a bit. This was the site of the planned and now canceled 1Hotel. That building would have been 215 feet tall with 17 floors. It would be nice to see something get built there since everything on that property had been demolished to make way for the unbuilt hotel.

And I would not be surprised to see a 15-story office building ending up being about the same height that the hotel was planned to be. I would imagine this will be around 200 feet tall.

JoninATX · #16 Posted **Jul 17, 2013, 7:20 AM**

Looks like they got heavy equipment at The Fairmont site. Can someone confirm this?

The ATX · #17 Posted **Jul 17, 2013, 9:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by JoninATX

Looks like they got heavy equipment at The Fairmont site. Can someone confirm this?

It was being used as a parking like normal with no heavy equipment as of Tuesday morning.

Kotliz · #18 Posted **Jul 17, 2013, 3:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by JoninATX

Looks like they got heavy equipment at The Fairmont site. Can someone confirm this?

You can just make out that open lot above the roof of the Skyhouse from the OxBlue camera (http://oxblue.com/open/SkyHouseApartments) at Legacy, and it does not look full of parked cars as usual, but I don't see any equipment. Even zoomed in it's not clear enough.

migol24 · #19 Posted **Jul 17, 2013, 4:17 PM**

ummmm so this happened...

http://xgames.espn.go.com/article/94...tin-texas-2014

Towards the end of the video in the link there's a sign with Austin's City Limits population that reads 650,something. LOL!

JoninATX · #20 Posted **Jul 17, 2013, 9:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hill Country

It was being used as a parking like normal with no heavy equipment as of Tuesday morning.

Thanks, I wasn't to sure.

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Originally Posted by Kotliz

You can just make out that open lot above the roof of the Skyhouse from the OxBlue camera (http://oxblue.com/open/SkyHouseApartments) at Legacy, and it does not look full of parked cars as usual, but I don't see any equipment. Even zoomed in it's not clear enough.

I was looking at the webcam last night, and what I thought appeared to be construction equipment.