AUSTIN | Projects & Construction III

[Syndic]

Actually, they said all along that it would have public access. They even said, initially, that it would contain "some modest exhibits" (not an exact quote).

Also, I should note that Colorado Tower is now just visible from I-35 now.

[OtherKevin]

Originally Posted by lzppjb

As for the restaurant announced for Seaholm, it says it's going to be 4 stories (w/ a rooftop deck) and you can ascend stairs through the old boiler. Sounds like it'll be inside the actual power plant. Maybe it'll have some public access after all.

Actually the boilers are outside the main building, located between it and the smokestacks. They are dismantling four of the five boilers, but they are turning the largest, westernmost one into Boiler Nine Bar + Grill. I have circled, poorly, the approximate area bellow.



The concept sounds amazing, and I can't wait to go see what they do with it!

Edit - Also, you can check out concept pictures on the last two pages of this pdf: www.seaholm.info/interactive/images/powerplant.pdf

[lzppjb]

Oh, very cool. Thanks for pointing that out.

[AusTex]

Originally Posted by NYC_Longhorn

austin is awesome, as evidenced by all the austinites hating on new comers for love of the good old days!
development means give and take , things are awesome here is austin, lots of need for improvement and some stuff is sad to see go... but there are many instances of cool stuff happening too .... good scene and music are still thriving

I find it interesting how people are afraid of the outsiders ruining the good old days, reminds me of madmen....
I will say we need another Leslie and kinky

Songwriter CARLY SIMON Anticipation lyrics say a lot about Austin and its residents;

"We can never know about the days to come
But we think about them anyway
And I wonder if I'm really with you now
Or just chasing after some finer day....

And stay right here, 'cause these are the good old days."

I moved to So Cal for high school and went to college there and thought about those lyrics every time I traveled down a Los Angeles street and saw something familiar changed or gone. I moved to Austin in 1993 and said to myself "Take pictures of every corner and every place that is 'Old Austin' because it too will change. And How fast it is changing. I wish I had taken those photos.