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[eastsider]

The Novare Group is teaming up with Andrews Urban to build a 40-story condominum tower. The new tower will stand 520' tall and contain 420-units with 10,000 sf of ground level retail/restaurant space. Construction could begin in early 2006 and be complete by fall 2007.

Austin American-Statesman: 40-story condo tower planned for downtown

[dxartist]

good for Austin.  That place will really rock.  Novarre comes up with some cool buildings

[Dale]

Wow ! Austin's getting another new tallest !

[eastsider]

The Austin zoning commission is scheduled to vote tonight on wether to allow for an exception to a city rule that only allows 8 sf of floor space for every 1 sf of land, limiting the size of the building. The zoning commission is expected to favor the exception since it is within the CBD. The city coucil is scheduled to vote on the zoning for the Novare tower on November 17.

Austin American-Statesman: Downtown towers face zoning commission verdict

[eastsider]

Last night, the Austin City Council approved the tower proposed by Novare Group/Andrews Urban.

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The council quickly approved a 40-story condominium building at Third and Nueces streets. Developers Novare Group Holdings of Atlanta and Andrews Urban LLC of Austin say building up will allow them to price the units at $200,000 to $400,000 — substantially below the going rate for other downtown projects.

Supporters said the project would advance the city's goal of creating more housing options downtown to help fight sprawl.

Austin American-Statesman: City debates look of Spring

[eastsider]

This project now has a name, it will be called 360.

This is what it will look like.


http://www.austin.novaregroup.com/

[eastsider]

Acoording to this article, the spire for this building will rise 128 feet above the building. The last planned height that I have seen for the building is 520 feet which is about five feet taller than the Frost Bank Tower.

The Daily Texan: Austinites anticipate new high-rise life

[HOWARD ROARKE]

The reservation site for '360' was launched over the weekend:  http://www.lifesurroundsyou.com/

[eastsider]

360 is now planned to be 44-stories and 580 feet tall, including the lighted glass spire.

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The extra height on Novare's tower did not require a variance from the city because the overall size of the building didn't change.

It just got slightly taller and slightly thinner, said Taylor Andrews, principal of Andrews Urban.

Austin American-Statesman: Downtown Austin homes as tall as offices

[eastsider]

Novare Groups press release annoucing 360, their 44-story, 433-unit project. sales will begin in the third quarter of 2006.

http://www.novaregro...s_02_01_06.html

[JDawgboy]

Construction for Novare/Austin 360 will start at the beginning of June.  Already the site has been cleared and staked out, the sign is up.

[JDawgboy]

JDawgboy, on May 1 2006, 04:29 PM, said:

Construction for Novare/Austin 360 will start at the beginning of June.  Already the site has been cleared and staked out, the sign is up.

Rumor has it that it may start as soon as Next week or two for 360... Stay tuned for the the tallest project to go up since Frost Bank.

[Spades]

Austin is hot. This is a new tallest but it will be short lived because of 3 other taller towers going up. This building is very nice.

[erdogs]

I was in Austin this past weekend and loved it.   With all these new towers I would have expected more interest in this site. Well atleast you have one more poster.

[erdogs]

Where's the excitement here? Where I'm from we would be extatic about a project like this! I will be moving to Austin by the end of July, if this forum doesn't become more active by then I will be very dissapointed.

[eastsider]

erdogs, on May 20 2006, 02:49 AM, said:

Where's the excitement here? Where I'm from we would be extatic about a project like this! I will be moving to Austin by the end of July, if this forum doesn't become more active by then I will be very dissapointed.

I agree, there is much to be excited about in Austin, and not just the new condo towers. Unfortunatly, for whatever reason the traffic in the Austin forum or any of the Texas forums on UP has never really picked up. Hopefully this will change pretty soon.  

[JDawgboy]

As somebody who is a forumer on Skyscraperpage.com as well as UrbanPlanet.org I find most people from the Austin area use Skyscraperpage.com. Having said that, I think this is a great forum and more people should get on it and post here.

[JDawgboy]

360 has now officially broken ground!!!

As of Monday a crew has started clearing the lot.  I drove by there today and they have taken down the fence along San Antonio Street.  Also they are in the process of clearing the lot.  Pictures to come soon!!!

[erdogs]

There should be a map of all these projects showing where there going up at.

[eastsider]

^The city of Austin has already done it.

Map of projects: http://www.ci.austin...Map_4-30-06.pdf
Description of projects: http://www.ci.austin...ata_4-30-06.pdf