AUSTIN | Projects & Construction III

[corvairkeith]

Here's a few shots taken from the other side of the lake today. They really show how much the skyline is changing with just those developments.

[IluvATX]

It looks like Seaholm is 2 and a half floors from topping out and Northshore on the 24th floor, which I believe is the last setback.

[OU812]

NEW sports arena DEFINITELY has to be here!!
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...re-of-the.html

Whether it's the Frank Erwin Center's replacement or to lure a PRO sports franchise to Austin.

Otherwise, Mueller could be an ideal location assuming there's enough room. The neighborhoods in and around Mueller probably wouldn't like it though.

I've always though the southeast intersection of highways 290 and 183 would be good for a sports arena or stadium as well.

[IluvATX]

Originally Posted by OU812

NEW sports arena DEFINITELY has to be here!!
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...re-of-the.html

Whether it's the Frank Erwin Center's replacement or to lure a PRO sports franchise to Austin.

Otherwise, Mueller could be an ideal location assuming there's enough room. The neighborhoods in and around Mueller probably wouldn't like it though.

I've always though the southeast intersection of highways 290 and 183 would be good for a sports arena or stadium as well.

I still think the Erwin Center replacement needs to be on campus. A large city arena on the Statesman site would be nice if it DID lure Pro sports and was mixed use with retail, etc. Otherwise, I think a continuation of the South Shore vision would be best for the site. Also, I always thought the land around 71 and 130 would be great for a stadium. There is great infrastructure, an airport , and COTA nearby. And no nimbys to complain about it.

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by OU812

NEW sports arena DEFINITELY has to be here!!
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...re-of-the.html

Whether it's the Frank Erwin Center's replacement or to lure a PRO sports franchise to Austin.

Otherwise, Mueller could be an ideal location assuming there's enough room. The neighborhoods in and around Mueller probably wouldn't like it though.

I've always though the southeast intersection of highways 290 and 183 would be good for a sports arena or stadium as well.

There's not a single indication in that article that the city desires an arena there. In fact, all indications are that the city is taking the right path re: mixed-use housing, office, and hospitality.

[drummer]

Originally Posted by IluvATX

I still think the Erwin Center replacement needs to be on campus.

Very much agreed.

[NYC_Longhorn]

Frank Erwin replacement built as a big ass attached to a stadium expansion on the south end zone? Seems that all the infrastructure for parking is near the stadium.

Otherwise, I think east austin Holly Street? What do you guys think skyline wise? It would be nice to get something like the Seattle stadium... I hate when cities put their stadiums away from downtown.... Let's Madison Square Garden that shit!

Originally Posted by drummer

Very much agreed.

[NYC_Longhorn]

Originally Posted by wwmiv

Cross-posted to relevant threads:

Here's a map I've made of the Austin CVCs. It's color-coded by city defined (black), state defined (red), and state defined alterations of the city defined CVCs (yellow).

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?m...s.kFyc1SOGTRGA

I've also subdivided the layers such that you can click on and off those Interstate 35 layers which would be inevitably removed by sinking Interstate 35, thus opening up significant swaths of land to high rise development.

I would imagine that if UT-Medical School leaders are thinking strategically, they might want to consider the long term impacts of having these CVCs de facto destroyed by advocating the pseudo-removal of the reason they exist in the first place: Interstate 35.

The removal of those CVCs opens up significant nearby land for private medical school related development, as well as bolstering the city's state goals of increasing our tax-base along Waller Creek. Unfortunately, one of the biggest problems along Waller is that this set of CVCs completely remove the possibility of intense creek focused development.

Smart Dude WWMIV

[OtherKevin]

Seaholm and GreenWater photo update


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[Syndic]

Always appreciate the update, Kev.

FYI, a couple of users on the Independent forum are saying they have sources who are telling them that the project has financing in place. I guess we'll have to wait and see. But that's encouraging.

If anyone is keeping score: the West End is kicking the East End's ass. Come on, Waller Park Place and 99 Trinity! You can do it!

[KevinFromTexas]

70 Rainey


https://www.facebook.com/SeventyRain...type=1&theater

[wwmiv]

And there we go: goodbye to the greenery facade.

[N90]

Austin is such a blue skyline. It looks like almost every new building is the same shade of blue too.

[Samwill89]

Originally Posted by N90

Austin is such a blue skyline. It looks like almost every new building is the same shade of blue too.

I'd agree




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[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by Samwill89

I'd agree

The lighting in that photo is unusual in that it makes the buildings appear to be roughly the same shade. However, in real life they aren't nearly so perfectly matched. And not all of the buildings going up are the same blue, either. Granted, it is a lot of blue. However, much of our older stock was brown, gold, and black, so it isn't like we have a monotone skyline.


Here's everything finished in the last ten years:

Austonian is dark blue.
The W is black and very deep blue.
360 is silver and very light off gold.
Ashton is ... brown.
Frost is silver.
Spring is teal and a kind of beige color.
JW Marriott is brown and blue blue.
Four Seasons is a bunch of colors.
Bowie is blue blue and beige.
Seven is mostly white and silver.
Monarch is beige.
Legacy is white.
Shore is brown and red.
Skyhouse is light blue.
Colorado Tower is blue blue.

Here's everything under construction and proposed that I can think of off the top of my head:

Seaholm is white.
Northshore is black.
Independent is white, we think.
Austin proper is white-ish.
500 w. 6th is blue blue.
5th and West is black and blue.
Fairmont is blue, yes, and beige.
Hotel Van Zandt is brown.
Westin is... a lot of crap colors.

e.g. the colors are not as monolithically identical as are often made out to be.

[OU812]

Wha wha whaaat??? Seven stories outside of Austin's metro area??
http://kxan.com/2015/05/12/construct...rgetown-hotel/

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by OU812

Wha wha whaaat??? Seven stories outside of Austin's metro area??
http://kxan.com/2015/05/12/construct...rgetown-hotel/

This is within the Austin metro area.

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by OU812

Wha wha whaaat??? Seven stories outside of Austin's metro area??
http://kxan.com/2015/05/12/construct...rgetown-hotel/

An FAA filing for the hotel says it'll be 76 feet tall. It's hardly a "high rise". I think that designation is because local fire departments classify buildings of 75 feet or more as being a high rise. It's for safety guidelines for fire code.

[NYC_Longhorn]

This forum is anemic... At least the urban planet website is good.

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by NYC_Longhorn

This forum is anemic... At least the urban planet website is good.

You have been pointed to the Austin sub-forum more than once as the source for Austin updates because Austin projects would be buried in a single thread. But you are absolutely correct about Urban Planet. If one is only looking for updates (as opposed to discussions) on projects that is an awesome reference. Again with the .