Austin | Alexan Waterloo | 350 Feet | 29 Floors | Complete - Page 10

GoldenBoot · #**181** Posted **Mar 16, 2019, 10:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jdawgboy

The hills that Downtown sits on are in essence the farthest eastern extent of the Hill Country (the foothills of the hills if I may use the term)...therefore are made of limestone.

Speaking geologically, all of downtown Austin sits in the Texas Coastal Plain. The Texas Hill Country extends no further east than the Balcones Escarpment (Fault Zone) who's eastern extent is about where Barton Creek is (south of the river) and runs just east of Lake Austin up through Mt. Bonnell and into Austin's Northwest Hills (north of the River - before turning further west near MoPac & 183). In essence, north of Lady Bird Lake, the Texas Hill Country extends no further east than MoPac.

However, you are correct. Most rock under the City of Austin (proper) is limestone.

The ATX · #**182** Posted **May 22, 2019, 1:24 AM**

The tower crane is scheduled to go up the weekend of 06/21-06/23.

https://abc.austintexas.gov/web/perm...rtyrsn=2018505

The ATX · #**183** Posted **May 30, 2019, 11:45 PM**

Either the rain or unexpectedly tough digging has pushed out the crane installation until the last weekend in June.

The ATX · #**184** Posted **May 31, 2019, 5:24 PM**

From GDA:

https://www.instagram.com/gda_architects/

The ATX · #**185** Posted **Jun 29, 2019, 8:22 PM**

As seen from the 1601 Congress webcam...

https://public.workzonecam.com/proje...archiveId=Home

KevinFromTexas · #**186** Posted **Jul 28, 2019, 7:18 AM**

Tower crane pic in the Biz Journal showing the Capitol.

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n...-downtown.html

The ATX · #**187** Posted **Jul 28, 2019, 7:06 PM**

Here's the ABJ photo...

The ATX · #**188** Posted **Aug 3, 2019, 6:50 PM**

From GDA...

The Huston pit can be seen through the haze as well.

https://www.instagram.com/gda_architects/

427MM · #**189** Posted **Aug 4, 2019, 4:03 PM**

Wow! Lots of progress. Love all the homes going up in this area. A few thousand more would be wonderful

corvairkeith · #**190** Posted **Sep 6, 2019, 7:37 PM**

This one should start rising soon. When I drove by this morning I noticed the core is now at street level.

The ATX · #**191** Posted **Sep 21, 2019, 9:14 PM**

Towers has a downtown project update. Here's the Alexan poking above ground...

https://austin.towers.net/real-quick...wntown-austin/

Syndic · #**192** Posted **Sep 23, 2019, 5:48 PM**

Man, this one is really going to change one's perspective of Austin when coming driving in from the north. I'm excited to see this one go vertical.

The ATX · #**193** Posted **Oct 5, 2019, 1:57 AM**

This one is starting to go up fast. The elevator core and cement pumper can be seen on the 1601 Congress webcam poking above the buildings on the future Symphony Tower site. Speaking of Symphony Tower (blatant segue), the presumed new site plan was posted to AULCC this week. But the pdf is corrupted and won't open.

KevinFromTexas · #**194** Posted **Oct 5, 2019, 8:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

This one is starting to go up fast. The elevator core and cement pumper can be seen on the 1601 Congress webcam poking above the buildings on the future Symphony Tower site. Speaking of Symphony Tower (blatant segue), the presumed new site plan was posted to AULCC this week. But the pdf is corrupted and won't open.

Yeah, I saw that. Hopefully, they get that fixed. You can view the data file. It lists the start date as September 1, 2020, and the completion date as September 1, 2021, and it lists the design stage as 60% complete. It says they're having a meeting on October 17, so they should have that file fixed, or maybe even another one posted by then.