AUSTIN | Project Updates Thread Part II - Page 35

JoninATX · #1 Posted **Aug 3, 2014, 11:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by MichaelB

They are keeping building. Mostly inside re-do....
Hopefullt they at least put some green around the building. ! !

Thanks MichaelB. I sure hope they put some green, the parking as well as the building itself is so bland.

KevinFromTexas · #2 Posted **Aug 4, 2014, 2:04 PM**

This is the Texas PTA Headquarters. According to the site plan it'll be 80 feet tall.

bigdogc · #3 Posted **Aug 4, 2014, 8:48 PM**

http://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comme...il_member_and/

Kathy Tovo currently doing a reddit AMA style interview.

Mopacs · #4 Posted **Aug 5, 2014, 1:23 AM**

Photos taken this past Saturday, 8/2...

JACKinBeantown · #5 Posted **Aug 5, 2014, 1:49 AM**

Nice pictures, Mopacs.

God dammit! Why didn't they make Frost Tower just a few floors taller? It's already starting to get lost amongst the newer buildings.

Mopacs · #6 Posted **Aug 5, 2014, 2:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown

Nice pictures, Mopacs.

God dammit! Why didn't they make Frost Tower just a few floors taller? It's already starting to get lost amongst the newer buildings.

Thanks! Agreed about the Frost Tower. Such an iconic building.

The powers that be may need to establish Frost Tower view corridors

Jdawgboy · #7 Posted **Aug 5, 2014, 6:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Mopacs

Thanks! Agreed about the Frost Tower. Such an iconic building.

The powers that be may need to establish Frost Tower view corridors

Oh no! No more view corridors Lol not even as a joke. Knowing some of the people in this city, they might just try.

Its a simple solution, have a sister tower to Frost built with it's hight between 800 and 1,000 feet.

KevinFromTexas · #8 Posted **Aug 5, 2014, 6:06 AM**

Maybe someone else will have better luck with it, but there's a file on the city's FTP site for a "Fraternity House" at 2500 Nueces Street. I was trying to see if there are any elevations. This keeps crashing my browser, though, since it's 32 megabytes.

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...ouse_PLANS.pdf

The ATX · #9 Posted **Aug 5, 2014, 1:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Maybe someone else will have better luck with it, but there's a file on the city's FTP site for a "Fraternity House" at 2500 Nueces Street. I was trying to see if there are any elevations. This keeps crashing my browser, though, since it's 32 megabytes.

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...ouse_PLANS.pdf

That file is a beast to get through. It took a while, but the elevations are on the last page (27). It's a whopping three stories and 35' to the roof, and maybe 10' more to the pointy top of the roof.

smith_atx · #10 Posted **Aug 5, 2014, 1:36 PM**

I know the Colorado tower is just a glass box but I think it looks good in that location.

Armybrat · #11 Posted **Aug 7, 2014, 12:56 AM**

Just have to gawk in amazement how downtown has changed in the 55 years since I took this pic of my cousin at I-35 & Elmhurst (posted it on another thread a few years ago):

lzppjb · #12 Posted **Aug 5, 2014, 5:45 PM**

Update from shaggybevo...

JW - is 45-days ahead of schedule, CO on Jan 12, opening on Feb 13...they have a convention of 800 rooms booked for opening day. FF&E install begins Oct 31. Ironically, the biggest challenge so far is staffing...trying to hire 700 employees, and the Austin market is pretty well tapped out.

Westin - CO on June 1, opening on July 1 (current schedule)...the tie-back failure caused a 1.5 month delay, but are now 9-floors out of the ground.

Aloft / Element (@ 7th & Congress) - still working on design and permitting...currently scheduled to break ground in Dec.

Another hotel in planning / design stage for the Domain (White Lodging)

GoldenBoot · #13 Posted **Aug 8, 2014, 10:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by lzppjb

Another hotel in planning / design stage for the Domain (White Lodging)

Interesting...White Lodging did the Westin-Domain. I wonder what other hotel is in the planning stage? The Archer was to be the last in the actual Domain (at least in the most current, publicly shown layout). Maybe it is something on the outskirts of the project?!?

Interesting...

tie_guy · #14 Posted **Aug 6, 2014, 5:52 PM**

http://www.meetings-conventions.com/....aspx?id=58929

KevinFromTexas · #15 Posted **Aug 6, 2014, 6:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by tie_guy

http://www.meetings-conventions.com/....aspx?id=58929

That's calling the Aloft Hotel a 23-story building. We've only seen it listed as 34 floors. I hope that's a typo somehow.

The ATX · #16 Posted **Aug 6, 2014, 6:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

That's calling the Aloft Hotel a 23-story building. We've only seen it listed as 34 floors. I hope that's a typo somehow.

The room count is the same. So it has to be ~34 stories.

GoldenBoot · #17 Posted **Aug 6, 2014, 9:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hill Country

The room count is the same. So it has to be ~34 stories.

White Lodging's website has the building listed as being 32 stories. There may be two additional levels of mechanical...

JACKinBeantown · #18 Posted **Aug 7, 2014, 1:39 AM**

A little more traffic these days.

DoubleC · #19 Posted **Aug 7, 2014, 5:10 AM**

Heh, I'm only 20.

35 looks....wow. I bet there was no such thing as a rush hour back then.

Some of the roads in Austin probably haven't changed a bit (or at all) either in 55 years though. Was 183 South of 290 ever modified or upgraded in the past half-century?(aside from the mile or 2 of freeway that currently exists South of 290)

wwmiv · #20 Posted **Aug 7, 2014, 7:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by DoubleC

Heh, I'm only 20.

35 looks....wow. I bet there was no such thing as a rush hour back then.

Some of the roads in Austin probably haven't changed a bit (or at all) either in 55 years though. Was 183 South of 290 ever modified or upgraded in the past half-century?(aside from the mile or 2 of freeway that currently exists South of 290)

Yes. Most of it has been changed in that time frame, actually.