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Here's the ABJ article in full. It addresses height as well as how Shoal Creek Walk will finally connect:
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Filings indicate Whole Foods is growing in downtown Austin — and could even add another office building soon
On drawing board for years, new building could rise just east of grocery chain's HQ
By Erin Edgemon – Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal
Jul 30, 2020, 3:20pm CDT Updated Jul 30, 2020, 3:54pm CDT
Whole Foods Market Inc. may finally be moving forward with the expansion of its headquarters in downtown Austin.
The upscale grocery chain has longstanding plans to build a second building at 835 W. Sixth St., just south of where Schlosser Development Co. built the 15-story Shoal Creek Walk office tower. These plans originated years before Seattle-based technology behemoth Amazon Inc. acquired Whole Foods in 2017.
Construction on a five-story, 143,800-square-foot Whole Foods building could start as early as Aug. 31, according to a July 13 filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. But that date may be moot as Whole Foods hasn’t yet submitted building plans to the city of Austin for approval, which would be required to get a building permit to start construction.
A parking garage is also planned to the east of Shoal Creek Walk.
Austin Business Journal first reported on a potential second Whole Foods office building, of up to 185,000 square feet, in August 2017.
Gensler designed the new building, according to the TDLR filing.
Whole Foods did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Rick Duggan, a principal at Schlosser Development, said Whole Foods holds a ground lease on the property. He declined to speak about the project.
Whole Foods opened its latest Austin store, in the Saltillo mixed-use development on the east side, in June.
In addition to the filing for the new building, the company also appears to be eating up more office space in the short term downtown. It has leased about 51,000 square feet at the old HomeAway building downtown at 1011 W. Fifth St.
Plans to renovate the office space that mention Whole Foods were approved by the city of Austin in July. It’s unclear if the interior remodel has started.
Sixth River Architects Inc. designed the interiors. Sabre Commercial is the general contractor.
Whole Foods has at least 25 openings for corporate jobs posted on its website, for things from software development engineers to pricing analyst.
Plans for Shoal Creek Walk were first approved by the city of Austin in 2013 and include the now completed 220,000-square-foot tower, and in a second phase the five-story office building and parking garage. Plans for the project have been updated several times over the years.
Semiconductor company Cirrus Logic leases most of Shoal Creek Walk — about 150,000 square feet, according to CoStar Group Inc.
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