AUSTIN | Projects & Construction III

[JACKinBeantown]

Thanks, guys. I started a thread for the question because I thought it might allow for some interesting thoughts.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=214527

[Strayone]

Like the Arc de triomphe...just kidding.

Originally Posted by Dale

Oh, come on. A building like that would keep Austin weird.

[Strayone]

Geez you can rent a view like this? I always imagined spring had a decent view to both the East and West. But 360 and Monarch blocks a good portion to the East! This is the best DT view any building has.

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

View from Seven.


Seven-High Rise Luxury Apartments, Austin, TX - https://www.facebook.com/SevenApts/p...type=1&theater

[KevinFromTexas]

Demolition has begun at the site.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...or-glitzy.html

Demolition begins downtown to make way for glitzy condo tower
Dec 5, 2014, 2:45pm CST

Jan Buchholz
Staff Writer-
Austin Business Journal

The wrecking crews descended this week on the former headquarters of the Texas Press Association at 718 W. Fifth St.

Austin-based Riverside Resources purchased the site and is building Fifth & West, a 39-story condo tower that will be one of the tallest buildings in the city when it's finished in fall 2017. Click on the photo to see a slideshow of the site and renderings of the new tower.

Demolition is expected to take 15 working days, according to project spokesman Scott Dunaway.

[Dariusb]

Originally Posted by Strayone

Geez you can rent a view like this? I always imagined spring had a decent view to both the East and West. But 360 and Monarch blocks a good portion to the East! This is the best DT view any building has.

Simply gorgeous!

[Kotliz]

KXAN posted some interesting interior shots of the Marriott: http://interactives.kxan.com/photomo...te/renderings/

[The ATX]

By my count there are over 5,000 hotel rooms in various stages of development in Downtown Austin. This list only includes what most people consider to be "Downtown proper". There are more boutique hotels in development adjacent to Downtown, in the SoCo area and east of I-35 for example. There are also hundreds, if not thousands, in development all around Austin and the suburbs. Three of the projects don't have publicly announced room counts, so I conservatively estimated them at 300 each based on similar projects.

[lzppjb]

I like your photobucket name. lol

[lzppjb]

btw, what's the Waterloo Park hotel?

Edit: Nvm. I see where you posted about it in October and I asked about it then. haha

[Syndic]

Speaking of hotels, this was recently tweeted by Dan Keshet on Twitter: "So far, JW Marriott not slowing SXSW hotel market. During SXSW music, JW going for $899/night; Courtyard Marriott $799."

Goodness gracious, that's a boatload of money. It's almost a million dollars a day.

[LoneStarMike]

Originally Posted by Hill Country

[B]By my count there are over 5,000 hotel rooms in various stages of development in Downtown Austin. This list only includes what most people consider to be "Downtown proper".

Add that to the 4,990 existing rooms Downtown and that's 10,063 total rooms. And if you include the Hyatt Regency (448 rooms) and Embassy Suites (262 rooms) - which are just across the lake from Downtown - it would be 10,773 rooms if everything gets built.

[Syndic]

Add that to the amount of residences already built/being built and the amount of offices already built/being built downtown and you have some pretty intense density/foot traffic. Gotta give kudos to the city council for being forward-thinking and implementing the Great Streets program when they did. As inconvenient as it can be, it's only a little bit at a time and it will pay off in the long run.

Here's an article talking about it all the way back in 2002: http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2002-10-04/104053/

[The ATX]

Construction set to start "immediately" on the Green Water office tower.

ABJ article:
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...wn-austin.html

Statesman article:
http://www.statesman.com/news/busine...fice-to/njP5k/

[Dariusb]

When all this is built the skyline won't be recognizable!

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by Dariusb

When all this is built the skyline won't be recognizable!

I'll be honest, I barely keep track or check this Austin compilation due to my focus on East Coast cities. After I watched a video that Kevin posted in the aerial thread relating to Austin, I quickly realized my mistake. This city is looking amazing. I am really surprised on the amount of construction that is going on. All of which is up to a standard of excellence.

[colemonkee]

I really like the Green Water office tower. How tall is that one going to be?

[KevinFromTexas]

400 feet with 28 floors. The building on the right in the rendering is under construction now, and it's going to be 424 feet with 38 floors.

[KevinFromTexas]

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...ts-in-our.html

See Texas' boldest construction projects in our inaugural Super Structures publication
Dec 12, 2014, 2:35pm CST

Heather Ladage, Tracy Merzi, John Beddow and Jimmy Holmes, Publishers of the Texas Business Journals

Texas is growing — more business, more people, more opportunity — and that means a lot more construction.

There's so much commercial construction, in fact, it's hard to keep track of, which is why the Texas Business Journals came together to create this inaugural edition of Super Structures. Profiled in this special subscriber content publication are the biggest or most significant construction projects underway in each of Texas' largest cities.

We included everything from office towers rising in our downtowns to master-planned communities pushing the borders of our regions.

[NYC_Longhorn]

Dear lord!!!!

It's been three days since the last posting! Just awesome.... thanks to all you advanced computer Star Trek types that insist on your precious subforums, the Manila thread has now overtaken Austin

You bunch of hyper-organized bastards... With your damn container store frequent shopper cards, Have you no shame? How do you translate "our city thread is anemic" into Tagalog?

[lzppjb]

Cool update posted recently on the subforum.