AUSTIN | Projects & Construction III

[Syndic]

The Seaholm website has an updated timeline for the progress that's planned:

April, 2013: Excavation for garage begins

December, 2013: Power plant interior demo work complete

January, 2014: Tower foundation complete

February, 2014: Front lawn complete

March, 2014: Power plant dry-in complete

April, 2014: Low rise exterior work

June, 2014: Power plant ready for tenant finish-out, low rise ready for tenant finish-out

July, 2014: Underground garage and streets work complete

September, 2014: Tower ground level ready for tenant finish-out

May, 2015: Tower exterior complete

June, 2015: Tower last unit ready for lease

[actham]

Crane base is in over at IBC.

[cvalkan]

Originally Posted by migol24

Honest question here folks. Why are there a lot of paranoid people in Austin? I feel that Austin is like the mecca of paranoids, gov't conspiracies and global warming being a hoax....

I always find most of the youtube videos on my recommended lists that are about gov't conspiracies or whatnot, its not entirely surprising that many of them are from Austin.

Maybe we're just more tech-savvy than other places so *our* paranoids have more visibility.

Seriously though, isn't that just one aspect of being weird?

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by cvalkan

Maybe we're just more tech-savvy than other places so *our* paranoids have more visibility.

Seriously though, isn't that just one aspect of being weird?

I remember when Alex Jones was just a lunatic who rented time on on the local access cable channel (2005-06). I used to kill time laughing at the losers who felt that they deserved a podium on local access. Unfortunately Alex went on to national infamy.

[hookem]

Originally Posted by Hill Country

I remember when Alex Jones was just a lunatic who rented time on on the local access cable channel (2005-06). I used to kill time laughing at the losers who felt that they deserved a podium on local access. Unfortunately Alex went on to national infamy.

He was around a lot earlier than that. He was on local cable access at least as far back as '97. His big thing was "predicting" 9/11 and before that being involved with the Waco (Branch Davidian) survivors.

Just keep in mind "weird" doesn't necessarily mean likable or good. Linklater got it right. Sometimes it's uncomfortable or spooky.

[JACKinBeantown]

Every new highway in the country should have a rail lane in each direction. Cars create traffic... trains alleviate it. Also, even though the Big Dig in Boston went way over budget, the result is outstanding. Go for it, Austin!

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown

Every new highway in the country should have a rail lane in each direction. Cars create traffic... trains alleviate it. Also, even though the Big Dig in Boston went way over budget, the result is outstanding. Go for it, Austin!

The results was a subpar freeway with massive cost overruns and major engineering problems that are still being fixed to this day. Thank God the idea in Austin isn't nearly as ambitious or complex.

And thank God one of the major causes of the post-finish problems that faced the Big Dig doesn't exist here in Austin: the ocean. Also not part of Austin's landscape is the fact that we don't have to actually tunnel through the city to build the new freeway, but instead just have to sink it and cap it. Much much easier and costs sooo much less.

[Kotliz]

Here are a couple of shots of the JW Marriott taken on Sunday, May 25th. Look at that interesting V-shaped support structure on the South side (right side of the top picture).

[ahealy]

Originally Posted by Kotliz

Here are a couple of shots of the JW Marriott taken on Sunday, May 25th. Look at that interesting V-shaped support structure on the South side (right side of the top picture).

I'm curious what room the V will be when complete .

[Syndic]

It's crazy that the view of Whitley, Hyatt Place, and Hampton Inn from Congress is almost gone. Good riddance, I say. It just feels so alien for something to be there. I wonder what the last building there was and why it was torn down.

Someone should go get some shots of 3eleven. I bet it has made a lot of progress by now. I'm not able to go down there myself right now.

[Kotliz]

Originally Posted by Syndic

It's crazy that the view of Whitley, Hyatt Place, and Hampton Inn from Congress is almost gone. Good riddance, I say. It just feels so alien for something to be there. I wonder what the last building there was and why it was torn down.

Someone should go get some shots of 3eleven. I bet it has made a lot of progress by now. I'm not able to go down there myself right now.

Not a great shot at all [!], but this is what 3eleven looked like on Sunday (26 May) from Bowie street.

[Syndic]

Thanks. I thought it would be a little bit taller than that, for some reason. But, man, that is a really tight space to be building something.

[pscajunguy]

Originally Posted by Syndic

It's crazy that the view of Whitley, Hyatt Place, and Hampton Inn from Congress is almost gone. Good riddance, I say. It just feels so alien for something to be there. I wonder what the last building there was and why it was torn down.

Someone should go get some shots of 3eleven. I bet it has made a lot of progress by now. I'm not able to go down there myself right now.

I wonder if they are going to discount the room rates at the Marriott across the street from that ugly windowless west slab of Hyatt Place.

[LoneStarMike]

Originally Posted by Syndic

It just feels so alien for something to be there. I wonder what the last building there was and why it was torn down.

The last building where the Marriott is going up? It was a parking lot and three small buildings housing Las Manitas, Tesoros Trading Co. and Escuelita del Alma - a daycare center. They were torn down for an earlier version of the Marriott that (thank God) didn't get built.

Source

This was the parking lot and a side view of Tesoros from 2007:

[MichaelB]

Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

The last building where the Marriott is going up? It was a parking lot and three small buildings housing Las Manitas, Tesoros Trading Co. and Escuelita del Alma - a daycare center. They were torn down for an earlier version of the Marriott that (thank God) didn't get built.

Source

This was the parking lot and a side view of Tesoros from 2007:

......and on the Bazos side was an old "Oscar Snowden's" Appliance store. ( 208 Brazos to be exact). It was a cheap white (probably) 60s era metal warehouse with a glass front. Not sure what year that was torn down.

[corvairkeith]

Here are a couple not so great shots of 3 Eleven Bowie from the creek side taken last Thursday.





And another view of the V shaped pillars at the JW Marriott.

[MichaelB]

Originally Posted by corvairkeith

I have been very curious as to what this will be in the building.
I take it as an interesting way to create some nice interior volume in a key
space in the building.
I remember the first day I saw them starting to frame this part...
I was very curious.!
Will be fun to see what it truns out to be. ( and I'm just to lazy right now to go search the plans!LOL! )

[KevinFromTexas]

I'm wondering if that V column has anything to do with the strange little indention on that corner.





This rendering seems to not show it, but there is something going on with the facade down there.

[ahealy]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

I'm wondering if that V column has anything to do with the strange little indention on that corner.





This rendering seems to not show it, but there is something going on with the facade down there.

It's probably a ballroom or something

[texboy]

It probably has something to do with the cantilever of the 3rd floor over levels 1 and 2 on the south side of the tower. Just my educated guess.