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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown
As long as there's ground level retail, I'm all for parking starting at the second floor. It makes the building taller (which we like) and it makes the units that much higher off the ground (which the tenants like).
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Virtually all Austin skyscrapers proposed or built over the past several years have ground level retail (which often means a restaurant at the very least.) So that is typically not a concern.
I understand the desire to have the facade match the context the Warehouse District at street level. But the new design isolates the building from the street IMO. The original design was open (like the JW) at street level as seen in the rendering below.
If this tower is going to be built, I would prefer the open design that improves the street interaction rather than mostly closed brick walls that match the current warehouse. But we really don't know the final design yet.