AUSTIN | Project Updates Thread Part II

[We vs us]

I thought it might be supplemental cell service for SXSW, too.

[drummer]

I want supplemental cell service in my neighborhood in Georgetown.

[We vs us]

I'm sorry to post Musk Inc news here but the proper thread's been locked.

Elon Musk Is Planning a Texas Utopia—His Own Town
The entrepreneur is laying plans for a new community outside Austin next to Boring and SpaceX facilities, dubbed Snailbrook

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-mu...-town-52386513

[LoneStarMike]

Archived link (Gets around the paywall)

As of last year, Boring employees could apply for a home with rents starting at about $800 a month for a two- or three-bedroom, according to an advertisement for employees viewed by the Journal and people familiar with the plans. If an employee leaves or is fired, he or she would have to vacate the house within 30 days, those people said.

Sounds like a Company town

[enthurzan]

Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

Archived link (Gets around the paywall)



Sounds like a Company town

All for affordable housing, and if I was in local gov't I would approve this project, but Musk's utopia looks basically like an upscale trailer park LOL

[Dariusb]

That's quite a spread Eager Turnip! Can't wait to see what the skyline looks like when everything's built!

[Armybrat]

Originally Posted by enthurzan

All for affordable housing, and if I was in local gov't I would approve this project, but Musk's utopia looks basically like an upscale trailer park LOL

As opposed to those hideous 4 & 5 story beehives being built all over Austin?

[enthurzan]

Originally Posted by Armybrat

As opposed to those hideous 4 & 5 story beehives being built all over Austin?

Like I said, I don't care too much about whatever city Musk wants to build near Bastrop, but 4-5 story beehives are better than single-family homes in the heart of the city.

[ROCrot]

Originally Posted by Jdawgboy

Awesome work on the diagrams!

By the way, what is going on at the Long Center? The grassy area is closed off and they have some strange equipment on site. Hard to tell what exactly they are doing but possibly digging down?

Heavily abridged version of article to comply with posting guidelines:

Marfa-inspired, 3D-printed amphitheater coming to Long Center
Kara Carlson
Deborah Sengupta Stith
Austin American-Statesman
March 8, 2023
https://www.statesman.com/story/news...r/69983006007/

A piece of Marfa is coming to Austin, in time for South by Southwest, in the form of an amphitheater inspired by Austin hotelier Liz Lambert’s latest vision of El Cosmico, her nomadic hotel, campground and attraction in Marfa.

The project is being built as a partnership among Lambert, architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group and Icon, which is an Austin-based, 3D-printing construction company.

The 3D-printed performance pavilion stage will make its debut at SXSW this year and will be the location where Icon plans to host a special event with live music, food trucks and refreshments 3:30 p.m. March 15. Icon said the amphitheater, which is a single sculptural piece designed to serve as a landmark and gathering space, is a gift to the city and the Long Center. It will take two weeks to print.

Ballard said the Austin project will be the first 3D-printed amphitheater pavilion music venue in the world.

The space will be able to host about 1,000 people at a show.

[randalls]

Danish Architect Bjarke Ingels is also speaking at the Long Center this afternoon for a SXSW event. Free to public.

[Urbannizer]

Engineering Discovery Building

https://coarchitects.com/projects/sc...ry-building-2/

Project Dates

Thursday, March 16, 2023 to Friday, July 31, 2026

Project Summary

This project consists of design and construction of a new approximately 212,205 GSF Engineering Discovery Building (EDB) for critically needed research, teaching, and collaboration space for the Cockrell School of Engineering. Upon completion it will be a replacement for the existing and aging Chemical & Petroleum Engineering (CPE) building.

Project Location: This project is located on the site of the existing Services Building (SER), which will be vacated and demolished. Current departments housed in the SER will relocate to the expanded Facilities Complex Building 4 (FC4) building. The new EDB will be adjacent to the Engineering Education and Research Building (EER) and the Gary L. Thomas Energy Engineering Building (GLT).

[clubtokyo]

Looks nice!

[KevinFromTexas]

Nice. And it's replacing a low-rise.

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Nice. And it's replacing a low-rise.

It's affordable also (bolo UTPD though)

[the Genral]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Nice. And it's replacing a low-rise.

It is nice but I still consider it to be a low rise also.

[Urbannizer]

Complete

Texas Bankers Association

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/203-...RoCGcMQAvD_BwE

[Urbannizer]

Gilfillan House

Soil testing at 603 West 8th.

[WestAustinite]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Complete

Texas Bankers Association

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/203-...RoCGcMQAvD_BwE

Looks exactly like you would expect a banker building to look.

[MichaelB]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Gilfillan House

Soil testing at 603 West 8th.

What the hell...
Please don't tell me that house is coming down.

[Mopacs]

FAR WEST MULTI-FAMILY

This is will go up at the current site of a Frost Bank branch, about 2 blocks west of Mopac.

This project is located at 3525 Far West in Northwest Austin on approximately 3.9 acres. The site will be developed for a future 5 story, class A, multi-family wrap project that will have an estimated 257,000 net rentable sf. The site is properly zoned for a multi-family, mixed-use project

https://www.cswdevelopment.com/current-projects.html