AUSTIN | Project Updates Thread Part II - Page 270

drummer · #**5381** Posted **Aug 25, 2018, 6:20 AM**

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I wish we could get the city to require street level interaction in the front of these things. I know they need to exist, but can we get a coffee shop or clothing store in the front facing the street?

I say this all the time, Manhattan is littered with storage units, they just integrate well into the neighborhood with sidewalk facing businesses.

Agreed! Storage units aren't going away, but they could be better developed. That said, a multi-story building like this is much better than a sprawling, single-story plot with hundreds of units.

Urbannizer · #**5382** Posted **Aug 25, 2018, 10:56 PM**

Just spotted a soil sample truck at the vacant lot on N. Lamar, near North Loop - next to the Taco Cabana.

We vs us · #**5383** Posted **Aug 25, 2018, 11:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Just spotted a soil sample truck at the vacant lot on N. Lamar, near North Loop - next to the Taco Cabana.

Nice! I’ve been wondering if anything was ever going to happen to that lot.

drummer · #**5384** Posted **Aug 27, 2018, 12:25 AM**

Looking on Google Earth, it appears that everything around the Taco Cabana lot is ready to be developed. Is that one contiguous lot or a few different ones?

We vs us · #**5385** Posted **Aug 28, 2018, 1:58 PM**

It's a couple of lots. Not sure if they're bundled together or not. Only the foundations left of whatever was originally there. Would make a great place for a multistory apartment complex -- something similar to the Camden, which is nearby on the northwest corner of the intersection of Lamar and North Loop.

Urbannizer · #**5386** Posted **Aug 28, 2018, 5:49 PM**

Texas Facilities Commission North Austin Complex by Darius Fontenette, on Flickr

Villages at The Triangle by Darius Fontenette, on Flickr

4009 Marathon by Darius Fontenette, on Flickr

the Genral · #**5387** Posted **Aug 28, 2018, 6:14 PM**

The last pic reminds me of an old renovated factory, especially with the multi pane windows, something you'd find in Buffalo or Detroit, or Cincinnati or any city with older dilapidated structures. Maybe if some of the windows were broken or shot out you all would see what I mean. I wonder if the intent of the design here is to mimick those old factory designs with a plantation front end. I really like it. Its not often that a four story building grabs my attention.

KevinFromTexas · #**5388** Posted **Aug 28, 2018, 7:44 PM**

Yeah, that one has caught my attention also. Reminds me of the Tom Hanks movie "Big". Ever since I saw that movie when I was a kid, I've wanted to live in a place like his apartment. I'm quite sure this would be me, although, I'd probably be riding my bicycle around in there when the weather sucked.

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KevinFromTexas · #**5389** Posted **Aug 31, 2018, 5:24 PM**

Here is the plan for the new electrical substation in the Rainey Street area.

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...on_PLAN_04.pdf

Site plan for the redevelopment of 1111 West 6th Street. This is the AISD tract redevelopment. No plans, just a map detailing the location.

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...nt_PLAN_01.pdf

the Genral · #**5390** Posted **Aug 31, 2018, 11:47 PM**

I can't pull it up. Can someone post the pics

The ATX · #**5391** Posted **Sep 1, 2018, 12:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by the Genral

I can't pull it up. Can someone post the pics

I'm guessing you are referring to the Rainey substation. There are no elevations or anything of much interest to the general SSP audience in the drawings - unless you're a civil engineer wanting to know about the underground utilities.

The ATX · #**5392** Posted **Sep 2, 2018, 2:16 AM**

The City did away with their ~quarterly emerging project list and poster about a year and a half ago. It seems to have been replaced with this map:

http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/vi...7.3124,30.6263

The map is fairly up to date on new projects. Clicking on the project site brings up some info where you can click on a link to the site plan. It does have some outdated projects like the pre-recession post office site. But it includes projects all over the city and even outside of the city limits. I added the link to the Key Development Links sticky.

KevinFromTexas · #**5393** Posted **Sep 2, 2018, 3:06 AM**

I noticed they have a development listed at Colorado and Third between Colorado and Congress just north of The Austonian. It's listed as a 30-story office tower. I thought they were talking about 405 Colorado, but it's not.

The ATX · #**5394** Posted **Sep 2, 2018, 3:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

I noticed they have a development listed at Colorado and Third between Colorado and Congress just north of The Austonian. It's listed as a 30-story office tower. I thought they were talking about 405 Colorado, but it's not.

Interesting. That's the surface parking lot right next door to the Austonian, and there would be some upset Austonians if a 30-story building went up there. I remember some talk on here about that site a while back, but I don't think it was about a specific project. Since the map does include some older projects, it could be a dead project. But I don't ever recall anything being proposed for that site before.

We vs us · #**5395** Posted **Sep 2, 2018, 3:42 AM**

This is another one of those lots I've been scoping. Like the post office lot, it's weird to me that it's not hotter, or already in process somewhere. We don't hear much about it, and that's weird, too.

I wonder if Google owns it. Or if not, who.

The ATX · #**5396** Posted **Sep 2, 2018, 3:58 AM**

A 30-story office building on that narrow site would be pushing 500'. The info has specific numbers for parking spaces and office/retail sq. ft. So something must be on file with the city. But I'm too tired right now to take on the search challenge. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

AustinGoesVertical · #**5397** Posted **Sep 2, 2018, 3:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by We vs us

This is another one of those lots I've been scoping. Like the post office lot, it's weird to me that it's not hotter, or already in process somewhere. We don't hear much about it, and that's weird, too.

I wonder if Google owns it. Or if not, who.

I recall this being owned by World Class Capital Group. Another Nate Paul wasteland.

StoOgE · #**5398** Posted **Sep 2, 2018, 3:43 PM**

3rd and Congress (both sides of 3rd) and the lot next to 405 Colorado on Congress are three of my biggest head-scratchers. Just surface lots on Congress that haven't been gobbled up.

Then we'll be down to the West side of downtown, near the Arch and Rainy/CC being the only areas with large clusters of surface parking....

then we can turn our focus on the stupid state garage on 3rd and the post office site.

The ATX · #**5399** Posted **Sep 2, 2018, 7:51 PM**

I suspect the city just put the Parsley HQ building on the wrong corner of the intersection on the map since 300 Colorado is missing from the map and the building description is similar.

H2O · #**5400** Posted **Sep 2, 2018, 10:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

The City did away with their ~quarterly emerging project list and poster about a year and a half ago. It seems to have been replaced with this map:

http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/vi...7.3124,30.6263

The map is fairly up to date on new projects. Clicking on the project site brings up some info where you can click on a link to the site plan. It does have some outdated projects like the pre-recession post office site. But it includes projects all over the city and even outside of the city limits. I added the link to the Key Development Links sticky.

The City's downtown emerging project list retired with Michael Knox, the long-time Downtown Officer. The DAA is now doing their version of it: http://www.downtownaustin.com/business/emergingprojects