AUSTIN | Projects & Construction III

[MichaelB]

Originally Posted by ahealy

It's not totally terrible after all. My biggest thing is the ground level retail... I am hoping they put something useful in.

Twilight lighting always helps a rendering. It's still the same bland building... just a few lights on it. Just this side of West campus fodder!

[TGBinSD]

Originally Posted by BevoLJ

I guess there is a first for everything, even Austin. lol. They better not jinx this!

This is a very cool picture from that article.

too bad this isn't a tunnel for a new subway system...

but still great for the new waller creek vision

[hookem]

Originally Posted by TGBinSD

too bad this isn't a tunnel for a new subway system...

but still great for the new waller creek vision

That's the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw it -- looks pretty feasible to build a tunnel 26ft wide and 70 ft underground in Austin. Waller creek tunnel is about a mile long, so we'd be looking at $140M/mile ballpark. A lot of money but not impossible. Especially if it's underground for only the problem areas on the line, where lanes can't be spared. Or to cross Ladybird lake.

[ahealy]

Has anyone seen this?? Better yet, does anyone have a subscription to ABJ, and wouldn't mind sending me the full article?!!?!?

New renderings of Austin's Seaholm project

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/pr...lic-space.html

[BevoLJ]

Originally Posted by TGBinSD

too bad this isn't a tunnel for a new subway system...

but still great for the new waller creek vision

Lol!

When I saw it I thought, "What the hell.. It is the Tube, but in Austin!"

[Syndic]

Originally Posted by ahealy

Has anyone seen this?? Better yet, does anyone have a subscription to ABJ, and wouldn't mind sending me the full article?!!?!?

New renderings of Austin's Seaholm project

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/pr...lic-space.html

Looks like they're available here: http://www.seaholm.info/html/renderings.html

I like it! The tower got little snazzier.

[Nexis4Jersey]

Did they tunnel through sand?

[BevoLJ]

I don't think Austin has any sand. East of Austin there is maybe a few feet of soil. That black Houston clay. But central and west Austin is pretty much just solid rock. Limestone.

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by BevoLJ

I don't think Austin has any sand. East of Austin there is maybe a few feet of soil. That black Houston clay. But central and west Austin is pretty much just solid rock. Limestone.

The ground around here is riduculous. You almost need a jackhammer to dig a fence post hole.

[Jdawgboy]

Originally Posted by BevoLJ

I don't think Austin has any sand. East of Austin there is maybe a few feet of soil. That black Houston clay. But central and west Austin is pretty much just solid rock. Limestone.

East Austin into eastern Travis County you have the orange colored Sandy loam in some areas the Black clay soil is where the Blackland prarie slices through which is central east Austin from the Northeast part through South Austin in a sliver. We have Blackland prarie clay soil where I live. But go a mile west of here its limestone.

[ahealy]

Originally Posted by syndic

looks like they're available here: http://www.seaholm.info/html/renderings.html

i like it! The tower got little snazzier.

it looks sooooooooo gooooooooooooooooodddddddddd

[JoninATX]

Looks good, so are they going to be starting next month?

[ahealy]

Originally Posted by JoninATX

Looks good, so are they going to be starting next month?

Indeed! I wanna throw a party for it. Have fireworks go off my balcony....that could be dangerous )

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by Nexis4Jersey

Did they tunnel through sand?

Limestone.

[Syndic]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Limestone.

And clay. The clay is almost harder to dig through than the limestone.

[Austin1971]

Good to see this thing finally moving forward.


Austin Business Journal by Vicky Garza, Staff Writer

Six food trucks parked at Congress Avenue and Second Street in downtown Austin have been told it’s time to unhitch and move out as construction for a JW Marriott hotel is set to begin this summer.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...site-told.html

[BevoLJ]

Getting rid of that parking lot is going to be huge for downtown. I can't wait for that hotel to be done! Second Street's future is looking bright.

[migol24]

Originally Posted by Austin1971

Good to see this thing finally moving forward.


Austin Business Journal by Vicky Garza, Staff Writer

Six food trucks parked at Congress Avenue and Second Street in downtown Austin have been told it’s time to unhitch and move out as construction for a JW Marriott hotel is set to begin this summer.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...site-told.html

haha... neither one of those place were any good anyways.

[ahealy]

Originally Posted by Austin1971

Good to see this thing finally moving forward.


Austin Business Journal by Vicky Garza, Staff Writer

Six food trucks parked at Congress Avenue and Second Street in downtown Austin have been told it’s time to unhitch and move out as construction for a JW Marriott hotel is set to begin this summer.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...site-told.html

Why can't people see the bigger picture with these developments? Y'all, I've had a rough past couple of days with total brain dead NIMBYs. Just casually hearing people say "yeah, this is the end of Austin", "Downtown and all those high rises are evil", or "Austin is turning into downtown Seattle; we'll only have homeless downtown in a few years" !! I can't stand ANYMORE OF THIS STUPIDITY!!#$@ First. These poeple don't have any solid information about what they're bitching about. Second. They did not vote, nor do they even know who the current mayor is. Third. THEY JUST MOVED HERE FROM LA, NY, DALLAS, OR CHICAGO!!!!

[Austin1971]

BySarah Coppola
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF


One of the biggest downtown Austin developments ever would take shape on a valuable city-owned block over the next several years under a deal the City Council will consider today.

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/...r-2372704.html