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chinchaaa · #**681** Posted **Feb 6, 2023, 4:33 PM**

anyone got any news on the st elmo market? someone needs to come in and save this thing!

Urbannizer · #**682** Posted **Mar 13, 2023, 4:58 AM**

South Congress HEB

Urbannizer · #**683** Posted **Mar 19, 2023, 10:05 PM**

Mercury Hall Apartments

Urbannizer · #**684** Posted **Mar 22, 2023, 2:39 AM**

Mixed-use project in Bouldin Creek clears final hurdle

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The Board of Adjustment granted a height increase March 13 that will allow a mixed-use project in the Bouldin Creek neighborhood to move forward.

Plans for the Copeland at 1000 S. First St. include two condominium buildings with a total of 120 units, a 95-room hotel and 65,000 square feet of offices, all with underground parking, as well as retail space, parkland and a row of townhomes.

To make the project viable, developer StoryBuilt requested a variance to compatibility, a rule that limits the height of buildings near single-family homes. Land use attorney Michael Whellan argued that the site is so constrained by rules governing heritage trees and water quality protection that it isn’t feasible to develop without additional height – a hardship he argued meets the Board of Adjustment’s legal standard for a variance.

Whellan also said the project has support from the Bouldin Creek Neighborhood Association. “The applicant worked with the neighborhood for over three years to develop a consensus plan, including support for this variance,” he said.

The compatibility variance allows buildings up to 65 feet tall, or four to five stories. Without the variance, buildings could only be that tall on about half the site.

Urbannizer · #**685** Posted **Mar 22, 2023, 2:51 AM**

The Station At St. Elmo

Urbannizer · #**686** Posted **Mar 22, 2023, 3:43 AM**

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Rendering with more detail:

Site:

Now known as 600 Cumberland. The project also has transitioned from 100 condos to 110 apartments.

https://heartwoodrealestate.co/projects/600-cumberland/

Urbannizer · #**687** Posted **Mar 22, 2023, 9:22 PM**

St. Elmo Residential Project Seeks New Heights in South Austin

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The suitability of these properties for greatly increased density seems obvious to us, and after a few developments on the periphery of the district we’re finally seeing the first real effort to bring game-changing height to St. Elmo at a 4.26-acre assembly of properties occupied by a large warehouse at 600 Industrial Boulevard, located at the northwest corner of the boulevard’s intersection with Terry-O Lane — one of our favorite street names in the whole city, even though we have no idea who Terry is.

The site’s owners at Leifer Properties submitted an application earlier this month seeking to amend a Planned Development Agreement approved for the property under a different owner back in 2019, looking to raise the tract’s permitted residential density from 400 to 600 units, and increase the maximum height of development from 85 feet to 125 feet. That new maximum height would translate to a residential building rising from 10 to 12 floors, also containing 12,850 square feet of ground-level retail along with a 5,356-square-foot brewery, according to current planning documents. While the application for the amendment is currently pending with the city, it hasn’t yet appeared on the Planning Commission’s upcoming agenda.

Echostatic · #**688** Posted **Mar 22, 2023, 10:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Mixed-use project in Bouldin Creek clears final hurdle

We're getting to the phase of building so many apartment complexes that the names are starting to duplicate. The apartments right outside Q2 are also The Copeland, and it doesn't seem like it's a brand - just a coincidence.

Urbannizer · #**689** Posted **Mar 24, 2023, 3:51 AM**

HEB South Congress

The ATX · #**690** Posted **Mar 24, 2023, 4:08 PM**

I pass that HEB every day that I drive to work. The size of the site and the two cranes make it look like a really significant project. But yet it's just a grocery store - albeit one of the nicest ones in the City when it's completed.

KevinFromTexas · #**691** Posted **Apr 1, 2023, 7:17 PM**

So, as I had suspected, the demolition of the Barton Springs Road McDonald's is not due to it being redeveloped. They're renovating it like they've done for several other of their stores.

https://austin.towers.net/[email protected]

Sigaven · #**692** Posted **Apr 3, 2023, 6:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

So, as I had suspected, the demolition of the Barton Springs Road McDonald's is not due to it being redeveloped. They're renovating it like they've done for several other of their stores.

https://austin.towers.net/[email protected]

It's probably going to be turned into one of those where you order from an app or touch screen and they don't have a cashier. The newer ones also have TERRIBLE pedestrian interaction so the building is pretty muhc designed for drive thru and the pedestrian entrance is a tiny little side door. Pretty awful design trends lately in McDonalds.

Urbannizer · #**693** Posted **Apr 5, 2023, 9:54 PM**

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https://www.related.com/press-releas...fice-buildings

Related Cos. expands timber building plans

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The Related Companies plans an expansion for its mass timber office project in Austin.

The New York-based developer recently filed alterations to the project at 901 South Congress Avenue with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, increasing the square footage from 107,000 to 260,000 while raising the structure’s height from five stories to seven, the Austin Business Journal reported. Original plans for the site were first announced in September.

The project has an estimated cost of $65 million, or $250 per square foot. In addition to the office portion, the site will include retail space on the ground floor, four levels of underground parking and two residential units which have yet to be identified as for sale or for rent. Construction could start as soon as September and be completed by February 2026, the outlet said.

chinchaaa · #**694** Posted **Apr 6, 2023, 2:27 PM**

i really hope the city starts pushing housing in this area. it's just offices and shopping.

Urbannizer · #**695** Posted **Apr 13, 2023, 5:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Related Cos. expands timber building plans

New design.

https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Sear...TABS2023015340

https://www.related.com/our-company/...south-congress

Sigaven · #**696** Posted **Apr 13, 2023, 5:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

New design.

https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Sear...TABS2023015340

https://www.related.com/our-company/...south-congress

Nice! Gained 2 more floors and more outdoor terraces! Confused as to why it still says 5 floors on their website though? when the revised rendering shows 7. Maybe this is an old render?

Urbannizer · #**697** Posted **Apr 13, 2023, 6:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sigaven

Nice! Gained 2 more floors and more outdoor terraces! Confused as to why it still says 5 floors on their website though? when the revised rendering shows 7. Maybe this is an old render?

The rendering is new. Not sure why they didn’t update the information section but it has grown since then.

lzppjb · #**698** Posted **Apr 19, 2023, 12:04 AM**

The property next to our lot on South Congress sold and is now getting rezoned to CS-V (multi-family).

Not sure if this helps or hurts us. My first reaction is that it really hurts us. Our little parcel is useless on its own. We'd have to have the attorney in front of us on S. Congress sell at the same time, I think. I was hoping whomever bought this big lot would have contacted us, too.

Urbannizer · #**699** Posted **May 2, 2023, 7:09 PM**

South Congress HEB

lzppjb · #**700** Posted **May 3, 2023, 8:38 PM**

Old Manchaca Rd with 3000 apartments?? From the guy who bought my parents house in 2015:

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Friends and enemies, I need your help. I’ve got a house and warehouse at 10203/10205 old Manchaca rd that needs a cool food vendor. I’m changing zoning , expecting food and alcohol permission soon. If you know any great restaurant people, please connect us! 3000 apartment doors coming to this street in next few years. Currently our district has 9 thriving cocktail lounges in the area, with 6 more coming soon. Now let’s get some great food.