AUSTIN | Project Updates Thread Part II - Page 29

The ATX · #**561** Posted **May 21, 2014, 4:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by jngreenlee

I use Chrome with Adblock Plus. I never see the ads, and it's never slow!

Thank you! That fixed the problem.

Edit: Web pages on every single site I visit now are loading extremely fast. I didn't realize how much of a drag some ads are to page load times.

The ATX · #**562** Posted **May 21, 2014, 5:29 PM**

A permit request was filed today to demo the Hickory Street Grill at 800 Congress. Does anybody know what project this may be for?

https://www.austintexas.gov/devrevie...erRSN=11129583

Here's a streetview:

MightyYoda · #**563** Posted **May 21, 2014, 5:50 PM**

I remember being so disappointed going there. Wife and I received the worst service in our life and had to just walk out.

jngreenlee · #**564** Posted **May 21, 2014, 6:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by MightyYoda

I remember being so disappointed going there. Wife and I received the worst service in our life and had to just walk out.

I agree the service model was a little odd, but we had some awesome fresh/local/farm-style food there with kids. Talking to others, it seems to elicit strong opinions one way or the other.

Jdawgboy · #**565** Posted **May 21, 2014, 8:10 PM**

There was a building that was proposed awhile back and they closed down only to reopen a few months later. Maybe its the same project.

LoneStarMike · #**566** Posted **May 21, 2014, 8:36 PM**

^^Yeah, that was the proposed Austin Hotel at 804 Congress.

Here's a link to the thread:

Austin Hotel | 30 FLOORS

These were the renderings:

They wanted a zoning change and the City Council denied it.

Denied hotel raises Congress development questions
Robert Grattan
Austin Business Journal

I wonder if they redesigned it to comply with the stepback requirements for Congress Avenue.

The ATX · #**567** Posted **May 22, 2014, 1:38 AM**

According to a couple of online review sites, Hickory Street Grill recently closed. So something - something very narrow - is in the works for this site.

ahealy · #**568** Posted **May 22, 2014, 4:21 AM**

gosh I hope it's a slender apartment building with no parking

lzppjb · #**569** Posted **May 22, 2014, 5:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by ahealy

gosh I hope it's a slender apartment building with no parking

Just for you, it'll be a 37-story parking garage.

migol24 · #**570** Posted **May 22, 2014, 5:42 AM**

I was walking on Riverside and Burton about 11:45pm on Wednesday and the cops stopped traffic to let some trucks through. They were shipping Lustre Pearl to I dunno where (they turned on Burton towards the river). But it was crazy seeing them move the place.

Homecreek · #**571** Posted **May 22, 2014, 6:16 AM**

The lot is still owned by the same guys who were planning to build the Hotel. Fingers crossed?!

KevinFromTexas · #**572** Posted **May 22, 2014, 6:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by lzppjb

Just for you, it'll be a 37-story parking garage.

Man, with the narrow width of that lot you might get 20 spaces per floor, and you'd need a car elevator on the sidewalk to take them up.

I can't imagine anything tall going there. That lot is so narrow there's just no way. That would be Hong Kong and Tokyo skinny.

ivanwolf · #**573** Posted **May 22, 2014, 4:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hill Country

According to a couple of online review sites, Hickory Street Grill recently closed. So something - something very narrow - is in the works for this site.

You all will be highly disappointed!!!

SP-2014-0001C is for a 1 Story office building with 7311sf of space.

The ATX · #**574** Posted **May 22, 2014, 4:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by ivanwolf

You all will be highly disappointed!!!

SP-2014-0001C is for a 1 Story office building with 7311sf of space.

You got that right. A one story building on Congress? This isn't 1971.

MightyYoda · #**575** Posted **May 22, 2014, 7:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hill Country

You got that right. A one story building on Congress? This isn't 1971.

Is building a 1 story structure in the CBD even allowed?

ivanwolf · #**576** Posted **May 22, 2014, 7:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by MightyYoda

Is building a 1 story structure in the CBD even allowed?

Buildings are torn down and become parking lots so I would think yes.

MightyYoda · #**577** Posted **May 22, 2014, 9:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by ivanwolf

Buildings are torn down and become parking lots so I would think yes.

It seems to backwards to me that there are increased costs to build larger, but not the opposite. In the CBD, there should be minimum requirements for new buildings and increased taxes for undeveloped land (parking lots).

Jdawgboy · #**578** Posted **May 22, 2014, 10:58 PM**

Its ridiculous to build a one story building in the heart of Downtown. The only way something like that would even make any sense is if the building is designed to have more floors added as the need arises and even then, it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense.

Cd1076 · #**579** Posted **May 23, 2014, 6:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by migol24

I was walking on Riverside and Burton about 11:45pm on Wednesday and the cops stopped traffic to let some trucks through. They were shipping Lustre Pearl to I dunno where (they turned on Burton towards the river). But it was crazy seeing them move the place.

It made it's way to East Cesar Chavez, east of Pleasant Valley:

http://austin.eater.com/archives/201...-side-home.php

The ATX · #**580** Posted **May 23, 2014, 6:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by Cd1076

It made it's way to East Cesar Chavez, east of Pleasant Valley:

http://austin.eater.com/archives/201...-side-home.php

Thanks for the update. Do you have any idea where the other homes being moved for the Millennium are being trucked off to?