AUSTIN | Projects & Construction III

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by NYC_Longhorn

Dear lord!!!!

It's been three days since the last posting! Just awesome.... thanks to all you advanced computer Star Trek types that insist on your precious subforums, the Manila thread has now overtaken Austin

You bunch of hyper-organized bastards... With your damn container store frequent shopper cards, Have you no shame? How do you translate "our city thread is anemic" into Tagalog?

Someone has ADHD.

[KevinFromTexas]

Subforums with dedicated building threads are highly logical when you live in a place like Austin that is so busy that it's making the nimbys cry at night, even if this mysterious place called "Manila" one ups us every once in a while.

Block 24 Condominiums:


http://www.rhodepartners.com/#profile



Take that, Manila.

[NYC_Longhorn]

Ahhhh snap son! This forum just got real! Rhode partners all up in this beyotch!

[Nickelplate]

Ja ja ja jenga

[KevinFromTexas]

The building also now has a name. It's being called "The Independent".

It has a website and Facebook page now, too.

http://www.independentaustin.com/

https://www.facebook.com/independentaustin

A few more massing models from the website.


http://www.independentaustin.com/


http://www.independentaustin.com/

Aerial drone photos showing what the views will be like from the 60th floor.


http://www.independentaustin.com/


http://www.independentaustin.com/


http://www.independentaustin.com/

[Kotliz]

Wow, nice. All the best to them. That website has some of the best views of some of the construction downtown that I've seen in a while. http://www.independentaustin.com/views/

[The ATX]

Here's my latest list of Austin's tallest active projects. As in my previous lists the highlighted projects are either U/C or have had their official ground breaking with financing in place.

Number three on the list will be a new tallest at ~750', but I don't have a documented height or floor count even though it appears to be 61-stories. So I left it as number three.

The ~35-40-story I-35 & 12th St. residential tower doesn't have a documented floor count or height available. So I left that one off the list for now.

There are several more buildings in the works that are at least 100', but I left those off the list as well because I don't have any document heights for them.

[BevoLJ]

Thanks HC. I updated your list in the threads first post.

One of these days I will need to update my picture at the top of that, but I always think to myself "once this building is finished..." *another building starts* "Ok, once THIS building is finished..." *another building starts* ... and on and on. lol

[GoldenBoot]

Great listing, HC!

Is 70 Rainey now being pegged at ~35 stories? I have documentation outlining a 31-story, 380' tower.

Didn't the original developer (Riverside Resources) sell this property to another group recently? I think I heard/read that somewhere. I also think the new group may be interested in, looking into the possibility of, increasing the number of levels as well?!?

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by GoldenBoot

Great listing, HC!

Is 70 Rainey now being pegged at ~35 stories? I have documentation outlining a 31-story, 380' tower.

Didn't the original developer (Riverside Resources) sell this property to another group recently? I think I heard/read that somewhere. I also think the new group may be interested in, looking into the possibility of, increasing the number of levels as well?!?

A New York group (Fremont) bought it and are trying to increase the height to 35-stories.

[Dariusb]

Originally Posted by Hill Country

Here's my latest list of Austin's tallest active projects. As in my previous lists the highlighted projects are either U/C or have had their official ground breaking with financing in place.

Number three on the list will be a new tallest at ~750', but I don't have a documented height or floor count even though it appears to be 61-stories. So I left it as number three.

The ~35-40-story I-35 & 12th St. residential tower doesn't have a documented floor count or height available. So I left that one off the list for now.

There are several more buildings in the works that are at least 100', but I left those off the list as well because I don't have any document heights for them.

The skyline looks great now but when these are built it'll really be smoking. It'll surpass Charlotte soon if not already.

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by Dariusb

The skyline looks great now but when these are built it'll really be smoking. It'll surpass Charlotte soon if not already.

I don't worry about or get into personal competitions with other city's skylines becasue every city developes differently. But if all of the U/C and proposed projects get built the skyline will literally more than double in size in five years. That's is really hard to grasp considering it has already done that since the early 2000s.

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by Dariusb

The skyline looks great now but when these are built it'll really be smoking. It'll surpass Charlotte soon if not already.

It'll be awhile before we surpass Charlotte. Charlotte has a lot of construction activity as well, and they have a huge head start against us as seen below.

Height Range - Charlotte # - Austin #

Completed (inc. JW, Colorado Tower, & Bowie):

800-900 - 1 - 0
700-800 - 1 - 0
600-700 - 2 - 1
500-600 - 2 - 2
400-500 - 7 - 5
300-400 - 10 - 16

Austin has a bunch of 400 foot roof buildings (I include Fairmont here despite the "spire") in the works and under construction, as well as a perhaps 700+ building and an unknown height building that'll be substantial. Charlotte, however, also has a good number of tall buildings in the works. 201 Trade, for instance, is 601'. Other 300'+ projects include the Bearden, Skyhouse #2, 300 South Tryon, Tryon Place, etc. They don't have as many projects certainly, but because they're starting from such a higher baseline with their current tall builds and because their skyline is more clustered and tight knit, it's visually more striking. Austin has a lot of empty spots to fill and needs substantially more height (I.E. we need a tower in the 700-800 foot range (fingers crossed with the Independent) and the 800-900 foot range (I'd love for the development just south of the Fairmont to be consolidated into a single building for height, but that's obviously not going to happen) before it catches Charlotte.

[Dariusb]

Originally Posted by Hill Country

I don't worry about or get into personal competitions with other city's skylines becasue every city developes differently. But if all of the U/C and proposed projects get built the skyline will literally more than double in size in five years. That's is really hard to grasp considering it has already done that since the early 2000s.

You're right and great points!

[corvairkeith]

Some photos of the Seaholm and Green Water developments taken today.

[Ptah]

Originally Posted by NYC_Longhorn

Dear lord!!!!

It's been three days since the last posting! Just awesome.... thanks to all you advanced computer Star Trek types that insist on your precious subforums, the Manila thread has now overtaken Austin

You bunch of hyper-organized bastards... With your damn container store frequent shopper cards, Have you no shame? How do you translate "our city thread is anemic" into Tagalog?

I'm currently in talks with a bunch of 'advanced computer Star Trek types' to hash out plans for a mass campaign for all these two million Filipino Americans to visit the Manila Development Thread, so get used to seeing it at the top of the list more often!

[corvairkeith]

Christmas Day

[Dariusb]

The sight of all of those cranes is simply awesome!

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by Dariusb

The sight of all of those cranes is simply awesome!

There's going to be a lot more than that. The boom is just getting started based on all of the proposals and recently started projects that don't have cranes up yet.

[Jdawgboy]

Happy birthday Austin!!!! On Dec, 27th The city of Austin was founded 175 years ago.