AUSTIN | Waterline (98 Red River) | 1,022 FT / 312 M | 73 FLOORS

[KevinFromTexas]

Hopefully, this one gets an update in May saying the site plan has been extended.

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n...ey-street.html

Waller Park Place may take Austin's Rainey Street to next level — but no construction yet

By Marissa Luck – Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal
Mar 29, 2018, 7:00pm

Plans to build three mixed-use towers at the intersection of Red River Street and East Cesar Chavez Street could dramatically reshape the already quickly evolving Rainey district. Called Waller Park Place, the project would be the biggest private development in downtown Austin if built.

The 1.4 million square feet project includes 300,000 square feet of office and 473 residential units, according to city records. The three towers — 26, 53, and 45 stories at last count — would feature for-sale condos, retail, above-grade parking and 135,000 square feet of hotel space.

Yet the timeline on the mega development is unclear. The project’s site plan approval expires in May, three years after the city first gave developers the greenlight. So far, city officials say they haven’t received any requests for an extension on the plan.

[KevinFromTexas]

The site plan was extended as I mentioned above in April, and the other piece of news is WeWork is reportedly considering buying the property and developing their headquarters there.

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n...-downtown.html

Report: WeWork may build its own tower in downtown Austin

Company has only leased space in Austin to this point

By Paul Thompson – Assistant managing editor, Austin Business Journal
Nov 9, 2018, 3:45pm

WeWork Cos. is reportedly on the verge of a major property acquisition in downtown Austin.

A Nov. 5 story from The Real Deal, a New York-based real estate news site, details WeWork's effort to purchase the roughly 4.7-acre Waller Park Place development site from McCourt Global, a real estate entity owned by billionaire and former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt.

McCourt Global's website still touts its plans for Waller Park Place, including "approximately 3 million square feet of office, residential for-lease units; condominium units; a lifestyle hotel; and retail space in several buildings, the tallest of which is expected to exceed 50 floors."

[Echostatic]

We have a new design with one tower for this site. This is estimated to be a supertall.

[ATXboom]

Hoepfully Kevin can update the title of this thread to reflect the latest information and floor count

[Zapatan]

Holy f*ck, hopefully this one goes through. This would be amazing!

[Urbannizer]

More info, site plan was filed in April.

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...ls_627103_menu

Lincoln Property Company / Kairoi Residential are developing Waller Creek, a 74 story MIXED-USE project located near Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin, Texas. The project consists of a parking structure with 3 levels below grade and 12 above, a 240 key 5 star hotel, 25 levels of office tower, and 34 levels/363 units of residential space.

Kohn Pederson Fox Associates has been selected as the Design Architect along with HKS Architects as the architect of record. WALLER CREEK will be developed by a joint venture of LPC and Kairoi on approximately 3 acres of land at the Southwest corner of West Cesar Chavez Street and Red River Street.

The current program consists of:
a) +/- 2,582,413 GSF as defined by BOMA of mixed use, corporate office, hotel, and residential located in one (1) 74 story building.
b) The first and second floor of the seventy-four ( 74 ) story tower will include an office lobby, a hotel lobby, and retail space (fit out by others).
c) Levels 14 and 15 features an office amenity space.
d) Levels 41,42,43, and 74 features a residential amenity space.
e) +/- 1,780 space parking structure +/- 909,968 GSF as defined by BOMA on three levels below grade and twelve levels above grade.
f) Levels 01 thru 16 podium include a 240 key 4 star hotel.
g) Parking structure features exterior screened walls and office/residential tower features.

[The ATX]

To clarify, no site plan application has been filed yet. The site plan filed in April for this project (98 Red River) and the second tower 99 Red River (Block 190) were for a meeting with Austin Utilities to discuss the project.

[KevinFromTexas]

I had trouble reading the numbers on the elevation. The top one is pretty easy to read - 1,409 feet. Of course, that's the above sea level height. The number at the bottom is more difficult, but I'm a nerd, so I got out my magnifying glass like Inspector Gadget to read it. It's still a little hard to read, but I think the number is 408 feet 3 inches. So, that gives us a height there of 1,000 feet 9 inches. BUT, the height on the elevation is only to the main roof and there is some height above that. I think the highest point of the crown/mechanical roof appears to be around 50 feet above the main roof. So I'm thinking the height is likely close to 1,050 feet.

[pianowizard]

Holy crap, this is so exciting! It beats the current tallest building in TX, JPMorgan Chase Tower in Houston, by almost 50 ft! Austin having the state's tallest building, who could have predicted?

[Echostatic]

https://austin.towers.net/downtown-a...ler-creek-site

Seth Johnson from Lincoln, the developers of this tower, confirmed the plans are "relatively accurate" and "the building will indeed qualify as a supertall."

[Urbannizer]

Tallest building in Texas
Second tallest mixed-use building west of the Mississippi
Third tallest building west of the Mississippi

[chris08876]

Fantastic news and location!

[Skyy]

Holy cow Austin. Amazing

[CTroyMathis]

This was put in for 1025 FT at the FAA.

Ignore the glaring mistake someone made in calling the city Dallas, everything else checks with chart perfectly. If you were searching for this project using only Austin, you would probably have had great difficulty finding it.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...257981&row=359
There are three other submissions, all the same, just covering all the corners.

Cheers.

[ILUVSAT]

Originally Posted by CTroyMathis

This was put in for 1025 FT at the FAA.

Ignore the glaring mistake someone made in calling the city Dallas, everything else checks with chart perfectly. If you were searching for this project using only Austin, you would probably have had great difficulty finding it.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...257981&row=359
There are three other submissions, all the same, just covering all the corners.

Cheers.

Awesome. Thanks for posting.

I believe that would be 1025' from average grade. The tower will have an entrance at creek level giving the tower - possibly - 5'-15' more feet in official height.

[The ATX]

Elevations have been leaked from an anonymous source. I get 1,022' for the height.

[Echostatic]

More leaked photos from an anonymous source

[The ATX]

The latest height calculation has it at 1,031'. This x-post from the thread for this project in the Austin Sub-forum explains it:

Originally Posted by The ATX

Here is some clearer evidence for that ~1.6' lower starting point for counting the height. That brings it 1,031'.





I don't know where the info on the FAA filing came from. But I've noticed incorrect info on FAA filings before. All five or so permits for this project say it's in Dallas for Christ sake.

I would prefer to use one source for the height calculation rather than picking the tallest point from one source and the lowest point from another. So I'm sticking with the ~600 page document dump from Anonymous source #2 since it has the most info about the lowest and highest points. The tallest point on the tower that I could find was 1,481' 6" or 1,481.5'.

That's 1481.5 - 450.41 = 1,031 (Rounded)

There are a bunch of renderings and info about this project in the main thread for this project in the Austin sub-forum. The thread is long because the project(s) proposed for the site have been morphing over several years.

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=205341

[The ATX]

Not that it matters much, but we're back at 1,022 feet for now. Here's a side by side of the two best renderings:

[The ATX]

Here's another one...