AUSTIN | Project Updates Thread Part II - Page 410

kingkirbythe.... · #**8181** Posted **Jul 13, 2022, 10:43 PM**

Clarksvillage Project Imagines a New Mixed-Use Hub for West Sixth Street

https://austin.towers.net/clarksvillage-project-imagines-a-new-mixed-use-hub-for-west-sixth-street/

A five-story vertical mixed-use development planned for more than two acres of frontage along West Sixth Street could bring a boutique hotel, residences, office space, and significant ground-floor retail to the Clarksville region west of downtown Austin, according to a presentation earlier this week by local developers Riverside Resources to the Architectural Review Committee of the city’s Historic Landmark Commission.

kingkirbythe.... · #**8182** Posted **Jul 14, 2022, 4:32 PM**

Austin builders are starting a lot of new homes. Finishing them is not so simple.

https://www.kut.org/austin/2022-07-13/au...ew-homes-finishing-them-is-not-so-simple

For much of the pandemic, the homebuilding industry has endured delays because of supply chain issues: One month builders can’t get door handles. The next, it's door hinges, windows and refrigerators. And now this shortage has converged with another: a lack of employees. Like other industries, construction companies are straining to keep workers. The result? The time between starting a house and finishing it is longer than usual — and perhaps longer than ever.

But finishing these homes quickly also feels more urgent than ever. As rising mortgage interest rates have made homebuying more expensive, fewer people are lining up to bid for homes. Builders want to get these houses on the market before interest rates go up again and more people are locked out of homebuying.

Untangling this mess, one builder said, is delicate.

“It's like a big, knotted ball of yarn,” said Tammy Schneider, vice president of sales and marketing at Brookfield Residential. “You have to figure out, 'What string can I pull, or where can I start to unknot it and not make the knot worse or more difficult to get?'”

Urbannizer · #**8183** Posted **Jul 19, 2022, 4:32 AM**

Long Center Expansion

https://www.element5architecture.com/long-center

KevinFromTexas · #**8184** Posted **Jul 19, 2022, 6:09 AM**

It's the top of 98 Red River in bigly form.

StoOgE · #**8185** Posted **Jul 19, 2022, 3:41 PM**

Looks nice, I sort of wish they would put some more money into the little rotunda thing out front. Its nice in concept but the execution is lacking.

We vs us · #**8186** Posted **Jul 19, 2022, 3:49 PM**

Is that something that's definitely happening?

chinchaaa · #**8187** Posted **Jul 19, 2022, 4:22 PM**

I wish they'd just knock it down, and start from scratch.

kingkirbythe.... · #**8188** Posted **Jul 22, 2022, 6:06 AM**

Hey Austin, Maybe a 5-Story Building Next to a Train Station Isn’t the Move

https://austin.towers.net/hey-austin-may...g-next-to-a-train-station-isnt-the-move/

A five-story office project in a fast-growing northwestern district of downtown Austin has recently entered the early stages of construction, as you might have already noticed from the various fences now raised around the northwest corner of West 15th and San Antonio Streets. As described in our coverage from over a year ago, the project will replace a roughly quarter-acre surface parking lot at 502 West 15th Street with a structure developed by local private equity firm Scenic Capital Advisors and designed by Austin architecture studio Andersson / Wise, containing three levels of offices over two floors of structured parking, the first digging partially underground to keep the building beneath its height limit of 60 feet. (More on that later.)

Mopacs · #**8189** Posted **Jul 23, 2022, 4:25 AM**

Anyone know what's under construction on 183 at Great Hills Trail? A tower is going up now.

ROCrot · #**8190** Posted **Jul 23, 2022, 5:27 AM**

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Anyone know what's under construction on 183 at Great Hills Trail? A tower is going up now.

It's going to be a mixed use project with multifamily and retail uses at 10400 Research Blvd:
https://www.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=341352

Dariusb · #**8191** Posted **Jul 23, 2022, 4:58 PM**

East Riverside Gateway plans 2 million square feet of transit oriented development.
https://austin.towers.net/east-riverside...-square-feet-of-transit-adjacent-growth/

Urbannizer · #**8192** Posted **Jul 26, 2022, 6:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

3525 Far West

https://www.cswdevelopment.com/current-projects.html

AusTex · #**8193** Posted **Jul 26, 2022, 6:37 PM**

Wow, that looks like much better use of the land at that location. Lots of stores, offices and transportation immediately next to it. I wish it could be a few stories taller since there a no single family homes (NIMBYs) anywhere close to the site. However, the neighborhood association would have fits with even two more floors, even though it would not burden the roads! Northwest Hills is basically suburbia in attitude.

kingkirbythe.... · #**8194** Posted **Jul 30, 2022, 2:17 AM**

Here’s What 13 Floors of Hotel Looks Like at East Fifth and Trinity

https://austin.towers.net/heres-what-13-floors-of-hotel-looks-like-at-east-fifth-and-trinity/

The plan by local hospitality firm White Lodging to develop a 13-story, 260-room hotel under Marriott’s Autograph Collection at the southwest corner of East Fifth and Trinity Streets is a good reminder that many of the setback requirements in Austin’s creaky old code are also metaphorically setting us back — like, as a city — since the ramifications of the Downtown Parks Overlay, imposed by Brush Square next door, caps the height of a building at 120 feet near Trinity Street. That’s reportedly motivated the property’s owners at the Finley Company to pursue this smaller plan at the site despite its lack of Capitol View Corridor limitations, since the setback on a potential building’s eastern side would prevent the kind of contiguous floorplates large enough to make sense for a taller office or residential tower use.

Urbannizer · #**8195** Posted **Aug 2, 2022, 6:39 PM**

Soil testing- possibly for the Mexic Arte Museum?

The ATX · #**8196** Posted **Aug 2, 2022, 10:09 PM**

I doubt it, but it would be nice. Now someone who has been posting on here for 10+ years will have to find the wheel rendering and post it for the newcomers.

kingkirbythe.... · #**8197** Posted **Aug 2, 2022, 11:07 PM**

Aaw! The wheel! It would have been a real landmark.

drummer · #**8198** Posted **Aug 3, 2022, 3:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

I doubt it, but it would be nice. Now someone who has been posting on here for 10+ years will have to find the wheel rendering and post it for the newcomers.

I've been around since 2015 and I recall it from that time - I don't think we need to go back ten years. But yes, that would have been amazing. Maybe they can revive it?

The ATX · #**8199** Posted **Aug 3, 2022, 4:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by drummer

I've been around since 2015 and I recall it from that time - I don't think we need to go back ten years. But yes, that would have been amazing. Maybe they can revive it?

I was thinking it was one of proposals that disappeared during the "Great Recession". But I don't know when it was first proposed.

https://archello.com/project/mexic-arte-museum

AusTex · #**8200** Posted **Aug 3, 2022, 4:21 PM**

I was soooo hoping for that concept to move forward. How Iconic that whole block would have been, with The Frost Tower next door! We can still dream.