The Transformation of South Lamar

[Urbannizer]

StoryBuilt/PSW Land Investments wants to build ~300 units at 2413 Thornton Road.

https://land.storybuilt.com/market/austin/

https://investor.storybuilt.com/offe...vestments-llc/

300 multifamily units and 4,000 sf office/retail on South Lamar.

[Urbannizer]

Inside Zilker Studios, South Austin’s Latest Affordable Housing Community

With a clean modern design and incredible panoramic views of the downtown skyline from a hillside at the edge of the coveted Zilker neighborhood, the 110-unit apartment building now nearing the end of construction at 1508 South Lamar Boulevard looks like it’s almost ready to hit South Austin’s hungry luxury market — but Zilker Studios, the latest project from local nonprofit Foundation Communities, has a higher calling. Each of its studio residences averaging 431 square feet in size will be rented at deeply affordable rates to single adults earning no more than 50 percent of the Austin metro’s Median Family Income, many of them transitioning directly from homelessness.

[gillynova]

Really looking forward for all the South Lamar construction to be done

[kingkirbythe....]

Transforming Brodie Oaks From Shopping Center to City in South Austin

https://austin.towers.net/transformi...-south-austin/

Taking a sprawling 1980s strip mall-style shopping center and replacing its large parking lots and storefronts with denser housing — including approximately 200 affordable homes — alongside offices, hotels, and retail allows the development team of Barshop & Oles Company and Lionstone Investments to lower the existing impervious cover of the site and increase its open green space by more than 30 percent, providing nearly 12 acres of new city parkland, 10 of those acres adjacent to the Barton Creek Greenbelt. Due to its location inside the regulatory area of the city’s Save Our Springs water quality initiative, the Brodie redevelopment is likely the most environmentally sensitive project of its scale currently planned in the city, and should provide a roadmap for future upgrades of similar underutilized and overpaved shopping centers throughout the outskirts of the urban core.

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Once the PUD is finalized, the project should enter the permitting phase by 2024, with the first phase of construction tentatively scheduled for groundbreaking sometime in 2025. With this final stage of approvals now approaching, the project’s development team has recently launched a new website for the plan, which is simply going by the name Brodie — that’s where we’re finding all these incredible before and after pictures of the shopping center, and you ought to check it out for yourself.

[StoOgE]

Originally Posted by gillynova

Really looking forward for all the South Lamar construction to be done

I think the worst part of all of the construction is when the northbound lane briefly becomes "3 lanes" for the bus-stop and a bunch of jerks jam over there and create a drag race when the light turns green.

I suspect we're going to be seeing pretty consistent construction for the next decade and have made peace with it.

[Urbannizer]

Unknown timetable now regarding improvements for S Lamar.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aust...ility-project/

“The fact that we passed a bond almost 7 years ago now to fix one of Austin’s most dense and dangerous corridors, where density and use just keeps multiplying, and not a dime has been spent is astounding. Please figure out what is going on!” one KXAN viewer wrote to us.

Lauren Ramirez, spokesperson for Austin’s Corridor Program Office, said the segment of the project was paused for their office to “further coordinate with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to refine the designs to maintain travel capacity.”

According to the project’s latest fiscal report, released earlier this month, TxDOT put the project on hold in 2020.

“Improvements will be implemented in phases, with bidding and construction anticipated in 2023,” the report states.

Ramirez said once the designs are approved by TxDOT, CPO will develop an updated construction timeline.

Neither agency told us what needed to be redesigned, why, or how much longer it could take.

[H2O]

The only way we will see the original vision come to fruition is if Beto wins in 3 weeks.

[StoOgE]

If we could go back in time and never have a city employee use the word car diet in an interview or had a governor who wasn't shipping to a suburban and rural base we'd have this road done.

[Novacek]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Unknown timetable now regarding improvements for S Lamar.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aust...ility-project/

For that 1/4 mile section of S Lamar

Everywhere else on S Lamar continues as planned.

[H2O]

Originally Posted by StoOgE

If we could go back in time and never have a city employee use the word car diet in an interview or had a governor who wasn't shipping to a suburban and rural base we'd have this road done.

What City employee used the term 'car diet'? I was under the impression that it was Towers that used the term 'road diet' that sparked the controversy. Even if James hadn't used that term, the Governer's reaction would probably be the same once the plan was more public. Thank goodness TxDOT doesn't have control over more of our corridors!

[chinchaaa]

Originally Posted by StoOgE

If we could go back in time and never have a city employee use the word car diet in an interview or had a governor who wasn't shipping to a suburban and rural base we'd have this road done.

why would suburban and rural constituents care about a 1/4 mile stretch of a street downtown? like come on people.

[Max Tower]

whoops

[StoOgE]

Originally Posted by chinchaaa

why would suburban and rural constituents care about a 1/4 mile stretch of a street downtown? like come on people.

Its literally in the state GOP party platform to not allow it.

https://texasgop.org/wp-content/uplo...T-Platform.pdf

63. Freedom to Travel: We oppose the Biden Infrastructure and Green Energy Plan that threatens our
freedom to travel, imposes a federal mileage tax, as well as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or other
social justice policies on Texas taxpayers and drivers. We oppose anti-car measures that punish those
who choose to travel alone in their own personal vehicle, and oppose any measure to impose “road diet”
mandates designed to shrink auto capacity and/or intentionally clog vehicle lanes to force deference to
pedestrian, bike, and mass transit options (whose users do not pay gas tax). We urge the Texas
Legislature to protect drivers from these California-style, anti-driver policies in Texas.

I mean, it doesn't make sense to me but they also tried to hang their own Vice President. so

[chinchaaa]

Originally Posted by StoOgE

Its literally in the state GOP party platform to not allow it.

https://texasgop.org/wp-content/uplo...T-Platform.pdf



I mean, it doesn't make sense to me but they also tried to hang their own Vice President. so

Like…why?

[H2O]

Originally Posted by Max Tower

whoops

Don't worry about it. How were you to know what would trigger the snowflakes?

[clubtokyo]

Jesus Christ it’s in the freaking Texas GOP platform to oppose anti-car measures??? That’s insane. Please vote!

[Geckos_Rule]

Originally Posted by clubtokyo

Jesus Christ it’s in the freaking Texas GOP platform to oppose anti-car measures??? That’s insane. Please vote!

Not to get overly political, but a lot of these platform ideals are so insane that I have a hard time believing this isn't satirical...

[clubtokyo]

Originally Posted by Geckos_Rule

Not to get overly political, but a lot of these platform ideals are so insane that I have a hard time believing this isn't satirical...

I agree it seems like a joke

[Sigaven]

Trust me, if the Biden administration had that platform, the GOP would want to pedestrianize all streets and ban all cars immediately.

[Urbannizer]

Timelapse of Zilker Point

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/runa-...ium=member_ios