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JoninATX · #**1561** Posted **Jan 30, 2013, 11:07 PM**

There's a new restaurant that recently open up at the 300 W. 6th building called Gloria's Latin Cuisine.

http://www.gloriasrestaurants.com/lo...glorias-austin

Sounds nice, I'll have to check it out next wk.

JoninATX · #**1562** Posted **Jan 30, 2013, 11:19 PM**

Dell family foundation to donate $60 million for UT medical school, local health care

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By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz American-Statesman Staff

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has pledged to donate $50 million to a planned medical school at the University of Texas and $10 million to improve access to local health care and the quality of that care.

The school will be named the Dell Medical School.

A formal announcement is scheduled for Wednesday evening at the foundation’s headquarters in West Austin.

The $50 million, to be paid at the rate of $5 million a year for 10 years, will bring the Dell family foundation’s contributions to the Austin flagship to more than $100 million. Previous gifts include $38 million to help underwrite the Dell Pediatric Research Institute.

“The Dells have been fabulously generous,” UT President Bill Powers told the Statesman. “We are absolutely grateful for their support. I think this will jump-start the philanthropic effort for the medical school in the rest of the community.”

Janet Mountain, executive director of the foundation, said Michael and Susan Dell have been discussing the potential for a medical school with UT officials since 2006. The donation stems from their “affinity for this community,” Mountain said. “They’re long-term residents of Austin. They love Austin. They believe this will be a tremendous asset to the community.”

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/d...-for-ut/nT98b/

AviationGuy · #**1563** Posted **Jan 31, 2013, 12:56 AM**

Did anyone see the 6 p.m. KVUE local news? They were trying to show a comparison shot of the Austin skyline from 1990 to current. Both photos were taken at the 360 overlook, but the current photo didn't show the new construction, which apparently was blocked either by where the photographer was standing, or maybe the photo was cropped. Hard to know what happened. Does anyone have a really comparison from the early '90s versus current?

BevoLJ · #**1564** Posted **Jan 31, 2013, 1:40 AM**

I don't think I have one of the 1990's but I had one that I posted somewhere in the Austin section of the first ACL Festival which was 2002 and right before Frost was built. I can't think of anything that was built from 1990 to when Frost was built. Maybe the condos on Lamar by Idea City where Ann Richards lived?

I'll see if I can find that photo from the first ACL Fest. It is on this forum somewhere, but probably buried pretty deep in the Austin section.

Edit: In other words all the tall buildings started popping up when Kevin jointed the forums. Coincidence? I think not.

KevinFromTexas · #**1565** Posted **Jan 31, 2013, 3:23 AM**

lol I don't think I had anything to do with that.

I signed up sometime in 1999 actually. Yes, the forum goes back that far. There was a major forum upgrade in the summer of 2001, that's the reason for my 2001 join date. If you check the community list in the User CP link at the top of the forum, you'll see a lot of forum members that signed up in July of 2001. Most of those were the original/old school forumers like myself.

I don't really have any photos from that far back either except maybe a few stray ones my parents took. I didn't really start taking a lot of photos until the middle of the last decade.

And no, there wasn't much built between 1990 and 2000. The tallest building to break ground during the 90s was the Travis County jail/justice center in 1997 and it finished in 2001. There were also two midrises in 1998 and 1999 that broke ground those years. The tallest building to finish construction during the 90s was the Texas Medical Association building in downtown in 1991. The Travis County jail/justice center was the first 200 footer that had started construction in 10 years. The last sizable buildings had finished in 1987, and it wasn't until 1997 that the jail broke ground and then finished in 2001. So that was a long stretch of little highrise construction in Austin.

MichaelB · #**1566** Posted **Jan 31, 2013, 3:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by JoninATX

There's a new restaurant that recently open up at the 300 W. 6th building called Gloria's Latin Cuisine.

http://www.gloriasrestaurants.com/lo...glorias-austin

Sounds nice, I'll have to check it out next wk.

Texas Chain. One at the Domain. Killer margaritas! Love the Ceviche Salad. !
Already brought of life to that part of 6th

AusTxDevelopment · #**1567** Posted **Jan 31, 2013, 4:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by BevoLJ

I can't think of anything that was built from 1990 to when Frost was built. Maybe the condos on Lamar by Idea City where Ann Richards lived?

301 Congress was built in 1991 and 300 West 6th was built in 2001, before Frost Bank in 2003. Before that, the "newest" highrises were San Jacinto Center, 100 Congress and One Congress Plaza - all built in 1987. Below is a cool interactive aerial map of downtown Austin development from 2000 to 2012. The Statesman originally published this in 2011 so the W is not in the aerial, but they do include it.

http://www.statesman.com/interactive...wn-development

[That link is Flash, so it won't work on your Apple products unless you have the Photon or CloudBrowse apps.]

Edit: I work in commercial real estate so I only track office and industrial product. I'm sure there were tall residential/hotel buildings built sometime around that time too. They are just not on my radar.

LoneStarMike · #**1568** Posted **Jan 31, 2013, 5:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by AusTxDevelopment

301 Congress was built in 1991

301 Congress was started in 1984 an completed in 1986 according to emporis

And Bevo - the condos you're thinking about is The Nokanah which started construction in 2001 and was completed in 2002.

Austin_Expert · #**1569** Posted **Jan 31, 2013, 11:42 PM**

Plaza Lofts started in 2000.

Hilton CC Hotel started in 2001.

KevinFromTexas · #**1570** Posted **Feb 1, 2013, 1:01 AM**

I wish I could find a way to post it. I've got a spreadsheet file of Austin building heights that I've been putting together for 15+ years. Besides building heights it also includes their completion dates of course, but I also created another sheet listing buildings by decade and by their construction start date. The data came from photographs mostly.

Frost actually finished in 2004. It was topped out in June of 2003. I remember watching Back to the Future in Republic Square Park at their "Movies in the Park" showing, and I could look over and see the building before they started putting on the crown. They even had the mechanical penthouse lit up and I could see the tree on top signifying it had been topped out. I also distinctly remember the sound from the movie echoing off the Intel Building's shell. That would have been right around the time they halted construction, or just before it. Frost started in 2001. My brother and I went with Greg from the forum and sat in the back of Greg's truck and watched them put up the cranes for the building right across Brazos. The building broke ground on November 27, 2001, which I'll never forget since it was my 21st birthday.

300 West Sixth broke ground in March of 2000. I remember in 1999 when the rendering was posted on the forum by CTroyMathis. It was finished in 2002.

AusTxDevelopment · #**1571** Posted **Feb 1, 2013, 8:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

301 Congress was started in 1984 an completed in 1986 according to emporis.

You are correct. I was looking at the renovation date, not the completion date. It underwent a major renovation in 1991. I should have dug deeper.

AusTxDevelopment · #**1572** Posted **Feb 1, 2013, 8:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

300 West Sixth broke ground in March of 2000. I remember in 1999 when the rendering was posted on the forum by CTroyMathis. It was finished in 2002.

On this one I was going by the certificate of occupancy, which was issued in 2001. Sorry for the confusion.

austin242 · #**1573** Posted **Feb 2, 2013, 12:04 AM**

Can y'all tell me what this is in their photo. It has no discription but the austin skyline in the background.

It's the picture in the upper right side.

http://www.lakeflato.com/projects/on-the-boards.asp

KevinFromTexas · #**1574** Posted **Feb 2, 2013, 12:20 AM**

No worries. I'm actually missing the dates for some buildings, mostly hotels. And something else I'm interested in is their start dates. I've been trying to piece together a list of building start years and finish years based on old photos I've collected and also real estate data.

Besides creating a building height database it also includes the dates, so I can say how many highrises were started, finished and built during any given year or decade and be able to compare the data.

I just figured out a way to create a JPEG image file from spreadsheets. It's by using Google+'s Google Drive spreadsheet and then using a Google Chrome add on that I found that takes a screen shot of the entire page, not just what you can see. That was the problem before, my building list was longer than the screen size, so you couldn't capture the whole list. The screen shot add on creates a PNG image file that you can open in any photo editor and re-size and save as a JPEG file. That will allow me to host the image just like any other photo and post it on the forum. The next step is to move all the data into the Google Drive spreadsheet, because for the last year or so I've been using only an Open Office spreadsheet.