AUSTIN | Project Updates Thread Part II

[Urbannizer]

The Belvedere


Marshall Geyer via X

[Urbannizer]

301 N. Lamar

Zoning change request filed for the small parking lot.

[SproutingTowers]

ABJ reported the property the IHOP sits upon at 707 E. Cesar Chavez St. is heading to foreclosure auction on December 2nd and posted a map of the current Austin Downtown Density Bonus Program FAR and height limits.

[OfficialPBreton]

Originally Posted by SproutingTowers

ABJ reported the property the IHOP sits upon at 707 E. Cesar Chavez St. is heading to foreclosure auction on December 2nd and posted a map of the current Austin Downtown Density Bonus Program FAR and height limits.

FAR is no longer a regulating structure for downtown density bonus - SB840 killed this. I believe now there is a strict height limit for properties not participating in the bonus at ~250ft (IIRC), with an administrative (non-Council) approval of use of the bonus up to ~700ft (IIRC), with Council approval for anything higher.

Those heights are only for the Downtown / Rainey / Red River subdistricts, btw.

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by SproutingTowers

ABJ reported the property the IHOP sits upon at 707 E. Cesar Chavez St. is heading to foreclosure auction on December 2nd and posted a map of the current Austin Downtown Density Bonus Program FAR and height limits.

Maybe LPC and Karoi Residential will bid here to expand their plans for 99 Red River.

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=244847

[Urbannizer]

6th&Blanco





https://x.com/marshallgeyer/status/1992004209022234846?s=46&t=3S8HC_afKAMHVCgfx518rg

[Urbannizer]

408 Congress Avenue

Building up for demolition.

[chinchaaa]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

408 Congress Avenue

Building up for demolition.

booooo this building is almost 150 years old!

[gillynova]

Any news of what will come up here?

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by SproutingTowers

ABJ reported the property the IHOP sits upon at 707 E. Cesar Chavez St. is heading to foreclosure auction on December 2nd and posted a map of the current Austin Downtown Density Bonus Program FAR and height limits.

Auction delayed, Nate Paul is trying to hold onto the site.

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2025/12/02/world-class-bankruptcy-ihop-foreclosure.html

Originally Posted by gillynova

Any news of what will come up here?

No word yet. The building was never deemed historic because it was remodeled over time. City hopes they will reuse or salvage most of the building over complete demo.

[drummer]

If he wants to hold onto it, he needs to do something with it. Not that I have any stake in this (or pancake, for that matter)...

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Sixth & Walsh | Austin, TX

Some design changes were made here.

https://www.rue-re.com/s/Sixth-Walsh-Austin-cb6x.pdf

[ATX2030]

Former 3M Campus

An unidentified person/group/company/entity or whatever is pouring $610 million into the former 3M Campus. Project name is "Cosmos."

Here's some details from our vey own The ATX.

https://x.com/TheATX1/status/1998206953450086401

Nvidia perhaps...

https://builtin.com/articles/nvidia-cosmos

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by ATX2030

Former 3M Campus

An unidentified person/group/company/entity or whatever is pouring $610 million into the former 3M Campus. Project name is "Cosmos."

Here's some details from our vey own The ATX.

https://x.com/TheATX1/status/1998206953450086401

Nvidia perhaps...

https://builtin.com/articles/nvidia-cosmos

Nvidia is an excellemt theory - the best I've heard yet. Some people are thinking SpaceX,

[drummer]

Cosmos makes sense for SpaceX if they're relating it to anything...but then the code word isn't very code-y.

[obemearg]

FWIW, all of Nvidias other office names are space/sci-fi themed "Endeavor", "Voyager" +"Starbase" (in permitting) in Santa Clara, and "Constellation" in Taiwan.

[drummer]

^ That's interesting - I wasn't aware of that.

Watch it be the corporate headquarters for P Terry's or something though. Massive growth and all, so there's need for a huge corporate campus.

[The ATX]

The tallest buildings & projects lists in the sticky development thread have been updated for year end 2025.

[KevinFromTexas]

Endeavor got their demo permit for their project to replace Wayerloo Records.

https://www.kvue.com/article/money/econo...YwX4WzZZEtdA&brid=Zi5RbOnXi5mIyZTRmiSq0Q

[Riverranchdrone]

This is going up on the westside of downtown along the railroad tracks.
[IMG]West Austin by Jason Luebbe, on Flickr[/IMG]