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Why is CVC 16 named that out of curiosity?
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Why is CVC 16 named that out of curiosity?
It's likely the same reason MoPac is called MoPac because it runs along the Missouri-Pacific Railroad. Perhaps the CVC runs along part of what used to be the Texas-New Orleans Railroad line? Wiki says TNO merged with Southern Pacific in 1961. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_...leans_Railroad
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What really amuses me is the media referring to the old Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad line corridor as the “MoKan”, when it was NEVER called that during its operating days.
It was called the Katy by everyone at the time.

People need to get that one straight.
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We have that excellent wwmiv CVC map in the sticky development thread where the CVCs can be checked out. CVC 16 is a City of Austin CVC and has to be one of the most worthless CVCs. It starts from the 7th St bridge over RR tracks just west of Tillary St. Here it is on Streetview:

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Yeah. You can enjoy a view of the Capitol dome while riding your bike in that skinny bike lane while someone else driving next to you in the car lane does the same and you can hope you don't get run over. I've never walked it, but I'm not sure there's even a view of the dome from the sidewalk there because of the trees. That raises another issue, which is that some of the CVCs have been neglected, but it's not because of buildings violating the views, it's because trees in them haven't been maintained. There are likely property owners along their path who are clueless that their house/property/tree lie in the path of a view corridor.

Anyway, the new height on the residential tower appears to be 338 feet with 31 floors when measured from the lowest elevation, which is on the 11th Street side.
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We have that excellent wwmiv CVC map in the sticky development thread where the CVCs can be checked out.
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The half block to the North has been cleared. I can't remember for sure but I think this will be the new location for the Velocity Credit Union to free up the current location to the West.



Yup. This demo could be considered the start of the Symphony Square project.
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Dirt isn't moving yet, but trees are. A permit was filed today to move a heritage tree on the site to Waterloo Park across the street.

https://abc.austintexas.gov/public-s...ertyrsn=249659
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A request for a CVC determination was filed today. I suspect that this is just some Admin cleanup since the project is already designed.

https://abc.austintexas.gov/public-s...rtyrsn=5703919
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Updated elevations were posted for AULCC today:

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/.../200430/PLANS/

The PDF is rather large and the elevations are on page 84. The project gained 27' in height as measured from the Red River side. Some estimating was needed.
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Here's one set of elevations from the AULCC link:

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The new Velocity Credit Union is coming along.



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So is the Symphony Tower not going to be built because of the new bank?
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So is the Symphony Tower not going to be built because of the new bank?
Somebody's not keeping up. Velocity needs to build their new downtown branch on this CVC encumbered site; then their old branch across the street will be demo'ed for Symphony Sq.

Edit: It's been a while, but this project was originally called the Velocity Tower.
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That's my credit union, but I really wish they would have built a more urban oriented building. That's literally just like any Velocity out around the city or suburbs. Seems like a waste to create a suburban cookie cutter building.
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That's my credit union, but I really wish they would have built a more urban oriented building. That's literally just like any Velocity out around the city or suburbs. Seems like a waste to create a suburban cookie cutter building.
That has been my CU as well for the past 15 years. I give them credit for re-building their downtown branch on a CVC low-rise site and developing their old site with a tower.
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I wish they'd call it Velocity Symphony.
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...or The Velocity & Greystar Symphony Square Tower on Red River @ Waterloo Park.
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Somebody's not keeping up. Velocity needs to build their new downtown branch on this CVC encumbered site; then their old branch across the street will be demo'ed for Symphony Sq.

Edit: It's been a while, but this project was originally called the Velocity Tower.
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On slow news days one has to dig deeper for updates. Just four weeks ago Greystar posted an ad on LinkedIn for a Construction Superintendent to oversee this project. That bodes well for this one breaking ground as planned.

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Greystar will be breaking ground on a mixed-use high-rise project at Symphony Square in Austin, TX. We are is looking for a Construction Superintendent to oversee the project from the development stage through to completion.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/c...ar-1748051418/
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