Sure did, wonder who designed that project........ Nice going btw.
Now if you can just find someone to repurpose that fantastically beautiful original design for 5th and Colorado, get them to add a couple hundred feet and place it on, oh I don't know, the old post office site? That'd be ace.
I think that is The Block Yard near the MLK Rail station. The Emma is on Manor east of Airport.
Lots going on near the rail station though. MLK Highline across Alexander opened earlier this year, and it looks like theres a small grocery store opening soon. The Starlight on Manor and Alexander is also nearing completion.
This has probably been asked before but, it looks like something is planned at the corner of 35 access north and Cesar Chavez. Looks like 3 lots cleared from the picture Urbannizer posted in Modern Austin and Vesper threads. Anyone know any details regarding that corner?
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Rosewood Courts, an 83-year-old East Austin complex that was the first public housing in the U.S. for African American tenants, is on its way to being overhauled as an affordable residential district and historic site.
Expansion and renovation work by the Housing Authority of the City of Austin and developer Carleton Companies will produce the Pathways at Rosewood Courts, a new development with 184 new income-restricted units ranging from studios to four bedrooms. Additionally, eight of the project's original 1930s-era apartment buildings will be restored and reopened with 20 modernized units. The complex will also include a block of 12 affordable townhomes.
Pathways at Rosewood Courts will center around a "commemorative green space" in the restored Emancipation Park, the complex's original centerpiece park, and other features linked to its long history.
With the block-sized Centro office development now complete at 1401 East Sixth Street, its developers at local firm Riverside Resources are pondering the project’s second phase. You might recall that the pair of five-story office buildings now standing at the site are only part of the story, with more buildings planned on the block east of the project’s handy new outdoor paseo that pedestrianizes a stretch of Onion Street.
But while the assumption for years now was that Centro Phase 2 would simply add more office buildings to the roughly 3.25-acre collection of properties, the latest permits for the next stage of the project indicate the developers are shifting gears — city filings as recent as this month instead describe the second half of the project at 1501 East Sixth Street as a 260-unit apartment building, rising to a surprising height of nine floors as allowed by the density bonuses for residential projects in the Transit-Oriented Development area created around the adjacent Saltillo MetroRail station.
If it ends up much like the phase one Centro development, I'm all for it. I spoke to some Riverside Resources guys the other day, and we talked about Centro a bit. They seemed really proud of how it turned out, including both the exterior design and street-level interaction it has.
Does anyone have info on what's being built on the large swath of land at the Dog's Head? Heavy machinery has been doing site prep for a week. Area is bounded by Thompson, Hergotz and Dalton Lanes. Here's a link from KXAN web cam
^^ Couldn't find anything online. At first, I was thinking that it was likely just related to the aggregate businesses that are ubiquitous in that area, but those machines do seem to be a bit more specific to site preparations and/or land clearing. Curious to find out what others know or have heard.
I thought most of this land in un-developable because it is the Colorado River floodplain. I know of a lot of dirt from construction projects around town gets dumped here. That said it looks like there are a couple of site plans in this area.
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Nice going btw. 
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