The Transformation of South Lamar - Page 39

LiveattheOasis · #**761** Posted **Apr 22, 2022, 3:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbancore

this should be 100ft tall and include commercial. better than a parking lot, or a chick fil a (which was one rumor 10 years ago)...but damn, what a missed opportunity.

Feel like everything is a missed opportunity right now with the current development restrictions. Wonder whether VMU2 could be a value to this?

urbancore · #**762** Posted **May 26, 2022, 6:31 PM**

McDonald's at Barton Springs and Lamar is closed and there are barricades up. Anyone know what's going on?

H2O · #**763** Posted **May 26, 2022, 7:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbancore

McDonald's at Barton Springs and Lamar is closed and there are barricades up. Anyone know what's going on?

Oh no! Not the iconic South Lamar McDonald's! I went there years before you got to Austin (no matter when that was). Austin used to be so cool. When will this gentrification end?

drummer · #**764** Posted **May 26, 2022, 7:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by H2O

Oh no! Not the iconic South Lamar McDonald's! I went there years before you got to Austin (no matter when that was). Austin used to be so cool. When will this gentrification end?

But seriously, don't touch Peter Pan Mini Golf. I took my kid there recently and it reminded me of when I was a kid and stuff.

Urbannizer · #**765** Posted **May 26, 2022, 7:55 PM**

Someone over on Reddit mentioned renovations.

StoOgE · #**766** Posted **May 26, 2022, 8:20 PM**

I will become the biggest NIMBY of all time to save Peter Pan.

H2O · #**767** Posted **May 27, 2022, 12:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by drummer

But seriously, don't touch Peter Pan Mini Golf. I took my kid there recently and it reminded me of when I was a kid and stuff.

I do agree with that. Long Live Peter Pan!

drummer · #**768** Posted **May 27, 2022, 2:08 PM**

It is true that we all become NIMBYs at some point....

Novacek · #**769** Posted **May 27, 2022, 2:14 PM**

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It is true that we all become NIMBYs at some point....

I'm cool with building a tower in the airspace above PP.

drummer · #**770** Posted **May 27, 2022, 2:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by Novacek

I'm cool with building a tower in the airspace above PP.

Only if it has a theme in line with Captain Hook's ship or something...

H2O · #**771** Posted **May 31, 2022, 12:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Novacek

I'm cool with building a tower in the airspace above PP.

It would make Peter Pan cooler.

dilliam · #**772** Posted **Jun 1, 2022, 4:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by H2O

It would make Peter Pan cooler.

Literally. A shadow over PP during the summer would be really nice and cool.

LiveattheOasis · #**773** Posted **Jun 1, 2022, 4:36 PM**

Stonelake Partners site next to Austin New Church, any news on that one, or the VMU for the Goodwill site that's been fenced for the past 6 months?

KevinFromTexas · #**774** Posted **Jun 1, 2022, 11:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbancore

McDonald's at Barton Springs and Lamar is closed and there are barricades up. Anyone know what's going on?

Well, if you Google it, it says "temporarily closed". So have no fear, people will be back there again being told the ice cream machine isn't working.

My guess is they may be planning to rebuild it. Two of them in South Austin were completely torn down and then rebuilt over the past year and a half.

StoOgE · #**775** Posted **Jun 2, 2022, 3:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Well, if you Google it, it says "temporarily closed". So have no fear, people will be back there again being told the ice cream machine isn't working.

My guess is they may be planning to rebuild it. Two of them in South Austin were completely torn down and then rebuilt over the past year and a half.

Oh man, I went down a rabbit hole on why their ice cream machines never work and its is *fascinating* bit of screwing over franchise owners.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/11/10721...-always-broken

In any event - I don't expect this McD's to close down unless someone also buys the bike shop shopping center next to it as well - the McDonalds lot itself is pretty small.

KevinFromTexas · #**776** Posted **Jun 4, 2022, 8:11 PM**

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n...YqME8-7UUdeN_U

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Endeavor plans 9-story building on South Lamar Blvd.
Another Old Austin shopping center may become modern housing

By Mike Christen – Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal
Jun 3, 2022

Endeavor Real Estate Group aims to build a nine-story mixed-use tower along South Lamar Boulevard just south of Lady Bird Lake.

The Austin-based full-service commercial real estate firm currently has 517 S. Lamar Blvd. — just south of a McDonald's and Peter Pan Mini-Golf — under contract and is seeking a change in zoning and local environmental regulations to build the planned tower at the 1.87 acre site.

To move forward with a plan to build 400 proposed residential units, 10,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and underground parking, the firm is seeking to rezone the tract from general commercial services-vertical mixed use (CS-V) to planned unit development (PUD) zoning. The project will formally be brought for a vote in the coming months.

LiveattheOasis · #**777** Posted **Jun 4, 2022, 8:23 PM**

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https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n...YqME8-7UUdeN_U

Love every part of this. Good time send your words of support to the Council.

GoldenBoot · #**778** Posted **Jun 4, 2022, 8:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Well, if you Google it, it says "temporarily closed". So have no fear, people will be back there again being told the ice cream machine isn't working.

My guess is they may be planning to rebuild it. Two of them in South Austin were completely torn down and then rebuilt over the past year and a half.

It was mentioned on the "Austin|Projects Updates Thread II" that pretty much the entire staff got COVID. There is no current plan (at least publicly) to redevelop this site.

KevinFromTexas · #**779** Posted **Jun 5, 2022, 5:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by LiveattheOasis

Love every part of this. Good time send your words of support to the Council.

Actually, I hate it. I mean, I also hate the shopping center and the parking lot, but I have never been on my way to Zilker Park and thought, boy, now what I really need is a condo/apartment project to stop by first. Having a good full service bike shop there with all the parks nearby made good sense. It actually served a purpose in that location. I doubt we'll have another one move in after this is built either. There is another bike shop closer to Zilker, but it's smaller and hasn't been there very long. The Trek bike shop, which used to be Bicycle Sport Shop, has been there for about 30 years. It's been my bike shop off and on for that time.

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Originally Posted by GoldenBoot

It was mentioned on the "Austin|Projects Updates Thread II" that pretty much the entire staff got COVID. There is no current plan (at least publicly) to redevelop this site.

That seems unlikely. I got the feeling that post was in jest.

Sigaven · #**780** Posted **Jun 5, 2022, 6:26 PM**

Who's to say they can't open a bike shop in the retail section of the new development?

Glad to see this lot finally being developed, I've always wanted to see something happen here.