Austin & Austin Metro Projects Compilation

[The ATX]

According to a demo permit, this Hooter's with an over sized parking lot is scheduled for demo on Monday (02/04).

Austin Towers

 

Here's the replacement:  

Austin Towers

[The ATX]

I created a separate thread for West Campus Projects to keep track of all the student apartment buildings.  I should probably create a separate thread for the Domain/North Austin projects because of the amount of significant projects.  Several years ago one of the Domain developers suggested that the Domain was Austin's "second downtown".  That was extreme hyperbole at the time, but not so much now.  This area has recently been up-zoned, and there are around a dozen 200'+ towers completed/under construction/planned.  There are even two 300 foot plus office towers awaiting city approval.  Facebook, Amazon, Indeed and Home Away all occupy a tower here.  In addition to all the office towers, we now have residential high- rises going up.

This is Domain Residential Tower #1 and one of the 300' + office towers.  Both are awaiting city approval.

[The ATX]

Burnet RD & Braker LN is ground zero for the Domain/North Austin boom.  The NW area of that intersection is home to the Domain.  The general NE area is home to the IBM (6K employees) and expanding Charles Schwab campuses.  This is also the site of the Broadmoor development which was up-zoned for 360' towers and was a leading HQ2 site.  The area SE of this intersection is the future home of the MLS stadium, and the SW corner has a large University of Texas research facility.

On the right is the nearly complete Domain 12 Facebook tower.  On the left is the U/C Domain 11 Home Away Tower.  The crane in the foreground is for Domain 10.

Statesman

 

Here's another view of Domain 10, 11 and 12.

Photo by Syndic

 

There's downtown ~12 miles in the distance.

Photo by Syndic

 

Here's a new project called Domain 2.

Link

 

Here are some future towers being called Domain D and Domain G.

   

Link

[The ATX]

Community Impact has an update about the Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in Round Rock.

[The ATX]

SXSW's new HQ is almost complete.

Link

[Dr. B.]

On 2/8/2019 at 10:32 PM, The ATX said:

SXSW's new HQ is almost complete.

Link

I wish this were taller so it would have more visibility; one of the better towers build just because it is not a box/rectangle. 

[The ATX]

This hequals2henry Photoshop of a Manuel Garza photo features six buildings Photoshopped into the skyline.  The photo was taken from the Rainey St. District, so the Rainey towers and the Fairmont are missing.  But four of the six towers Photoshopped in are underway, so this is a realistic depiction of the skyline in three years.  

Link

[The ATX]

7 hours ago, Dr. B. said:

I wish this were taller so it would have more visibility; one of the better towers build just because it is not a box/rectangle. 

Another 50 floors would have been nice.

[The ATX]

Another Tech company makes a significant pre-lease.  In this case it's Amazon.  They leased four floors of the U/C Domain 10.  They now occupy space in three Domain office towers.  Domain 10 is the one two floors up in this photo:  

Austin Business Journal

[carolinaboy]

^^^

That's a lot of architectural variety. I like it. Not just boxes.

[The ATX]

10 hours ago, carolinaboy said:

^^^

That's a lot of architectural variety. I like it. Not just boxes.

Fortunately it is.  It seems that cities go through a giant rectangle phase in the beginning of a boom but transition into better architecture as competition increases. 

[The ATX]

The biggest proposed cluster of towers are out view at the bottom of that photo in the Rainey St. District.  There are a lot of towers completed and proposed for that area, and among them are five proposals in the 500' and 600'+ range lined up in a row:

WeWork Project - 53-Stories, 614'

Travis Tower #1 50-stories, 595'

Travis Tower #2 50-Stories, 591'

44 East - 51-Stories, 585'

WeWork Project - 43-Stories, 523'

Link

[The ATX]

Here's an update on the two State Government complexes.  The first two photos show the sites of the two office towers going up along the future mall that is replacing N. Congress Ave. at the downtown Capitol Complex.

This one is 1801 Congress from earlier today.  The pit is huge and will get deeper still because vertical construction isn't scheduled to start until June. 

Webcam

 

This is the 1601 office tower from today.  Site Prep is well underway.

Webcam

 

This is also from today.  It's the North Austin Complex expansion project.

Texas Facilities Commission

[The ATX]

Google has signed a lease for their third downtown office tower.  The latest one is only 7-stories because it's in an area where height is limited by zoning.

Statesman

[The ATX]

Excavation is underway on the site of that implosion a few posts up.

 

Photos by Urbannizer

 

We have a new rendering for the apartment building going up.  Not bad for student housing.

Link

[The ATX]

This is the site of a 16-story office tower marketed as 410 Uptown.  That's the area defined as West Campus in the distance.  The U/C tower is the Otis Hotel which is a dual branded Marriott AC and Autograph Collection.

Another Excellent Photo by Urbannizer

[The ATX]

Here's another shot of the ever increasing density in West Campus from yesterday.  The almost completed tower is The Inspire on 22nd.  I don't recall the names of the tower in the foreground or the other almost completed one at right-center.

Photo by Urbannizer

 

Deep in a pit of another 18-story student apartment tower.  This one is Two Two Zero Four.

Photo by Urbannizer

[The ATX]

This little guy would be "Google Tower #3".

Link

 

But they'll have a decent view, and a new Whole Foods store is part of this project.

Link

[The ATX]

Here's an update on the three Marriott hotels going up in West Campus.

The Otis (AC & Autograph Collection hotels) is topped out.

 

Photo by Urbannizer

 

Demo has started for the Marriott Moxy Hotel as seen in this Urbannizer drive by photo.

[The ATX]

Here are some new renderings of the U/C Capitol Mall project that includes two new office buildings.

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[The ATX]

Demo finally got underway to clear a Hooters from a site south of the river.  This was several days ago, and the site is clear now.  Photos are automatically sized rather nicely on UP.  But Youtube videos are always huge.

 

The Demo was also the official groundbreaking for this.  It's called RiverSouth:  

Towers

[The ATX]

That blue crane in the middle of this zoomed in AusTxDevelopment photo is for a Hilton Canopy.  It's a nice project at street level, but a Capitol View Corridor runs over the site, so it's not very tall.

 

[The ATX]

The site of the The Huston apartments has been cleared.  It looks like the name may have changed to The Residences at 12th & I-35.

Link

 

Here are a couple renderings.

GDA Architects

[The ATX]

North Austin is really booming with high-rises.  This one is not at the Domain but close to it and next to the future MLS stadium.  In fact this project changed it name to The Arena Tower (Why not Stadium Tower?) and added two parking levels because the stadium doesn't have much parking.

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[carolinaboy]

14 hours ago, The ATX said:

Demo finally got underway to clear a Hooters from a site south of the river.  This was several days ago, and the site is clear now.  Photos are automatically sized rather nicely on UP.  But Youtube videos are always huge.

 

The Demo was also the official groundbreaking for this.  It's called RiverSouth:  

Towers

From that angle, it reminds me of something a Jawa should be driving (which is cool).