Austin & Austin Metro Projects Compilation

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Ha.  I had to Google Jawa.

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Finally.  On the agenda for Tuesday's (03/26) Planning Commission is an amendment to the zoning  (University Neighborhood Overlay) for West Campus that would allow for 300' towers.  Pass it, and they will come.   We will then see 29 and 30-story apartment buildings instead of all these 17 and 18-story buildings with the current 175' height limit. 

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Amazon confirmed that they are adding 800 Tech jobs to their Austin workforce in their third Domain building - Domain 10.  The rest of their Domain work force is in Domain 7 and 8.  Domain 10 is the U/C building in the background.  This will increase Amazon's total Austin workforce to about 7,500.

American-Statesman

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This Urbannizer photo show that the Travis County Courthouse project will soon be getting underway.

 

Here's a rendering from a previous post.

[The ATX]

Here are some renderings of the Standard in West Campus.  It may be U/C by now.

Link

That cluster of 17 and 18-story buildings at the edge of the photo at upper-left is West Campus.  Fortunately an update to the zoning for that area is currently going through the City's bureaucracy that would allow for 300' towers.

Linl

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Towers found a couple renderings of the Cambria hotel proposed for the Rainey St. Entertainment district.  It's currently awaiting city approval and too short to make my list of projects.  The empty site to the left of the Cambria is a future Fairfield Inn of similar height which is also awaiting city approval.  The U/C building to the left of the Fairfield site is a 17-story Homewood Suites hotel that opened in January.  We'll call this Budget Hotel Row.  But to the immediate right of the Cambria is the site of a local boutique chain's Lady Bird Hotel which should be rather nice.

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In a few years the Domain which is 10+ miles North of downtown will have a nice cluster of high-rises.  The first 300'+ towers allowed under new zoning for increased heights are working their way through the city's approval process.  The Domain III office tower is 330' per this new FAA filing:  FAA Link

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There are a lot of huge (as in acreage) projects happening in the suburbs.  But this is the only one I'm paying much attention to because it has cranes!

Kalahari Water Park/Convention Center/Hotel (975 rooms) in Round Rock

Photos by AusTxDevelopment

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Here are some excellent recent West Campus aerials taken by AusTxDevelopment,

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The number of projects at the Domain is now harder to keep track of than all the stuff happening in West Campus.  These new project renderings are being referred to as Domain 14 and Domain 15.  The taller one would be another 300 footer for the Domain. 

 

Austin Business Journal

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Here's  a new 16-story office building for Horizon Bank's new HQ.  It's a waste of air space because the site doesn't have a height limit.

 

Austin Business Journal

Here's the site plan:  https://abc.austintexas.gov/web/permit/public-search-other?t_detail=1&t_selected_folderrsn=12173490&t_selected_propertyrsn=128678

Even though it's a waste of air space, it's an improvement over what's there now.  From Streetview:  

 

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Here's the RiverSouth site.  This is where the Hooter's demo was in a previous post.  They are using Diaphragm Wall construction.  Photo by eskimo33

 

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Her's the Marriott Moxy Hotel site.  Photo by Urbannizer.

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Here's the Hilton Canopy Hotel:  

Photo by corvairkeith

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Demo was done to make way for the new Texas State Employees Retirement offices.

Photo by Urbannizer

 

Here's rendering of the new building from CBRE,

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Here's an excellent drone aerial of the Domain in North Austin.  

 

This is a still from the drone video.  At far right is the expanding Charles Schwabb campus.  The six mid-rises to the left of that is the IBM campus a.k.a Broadmoor, which will be developed into a mixed use project and include towers nearly 400' tall.

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Here's a recent but all too short drone video from the same source as the Domain video.  The skyline will look really good when all of the 550' to 850' tower proposals get built.

 

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Here's the other Marriott project in West Campus - The Otis and AC.

Photo by Urbannizer

 

Here's a new rendering of the opposite side of the construction photo.

HKS Architects

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The City Council voted to direct the City Manager to move forward with an ambitious plan to expand the convention center by more than 1 million Sq. Ft.  The city hired the University of Texas to do a study and come up with some expansion options.  The City chose Scenario 5 in the study which has two phases.

Here's Phase I.  The first expansion will be on parts off three blocks immediately West (to the right in this rendering) of the current convention center.  It will go deeper and higher to maximize square footage.  It will also have street level retail to help avoid it from becoming a dead zone.  It will also have a roof top public park. 

    

 

Here's Phase II.  It calls for the demo of the current CC and to rebuild it deeper and higher and include privately constructed towers.  The orientation will be shifted toward Waller Creek and an upgraded and expanded public park next to the current Fairmont Hotel.

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The Travis County Courthouse officially broke ground this week.

KXAN

 

The office building is scheduled to start after the Courthouse is completed.

Austin Design Commission

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Amazon is expanding again in Austin.  They are leasing the rest of the U/C Domain 10 office building.  They were previously only leasing several floors.  Sources also state that Amazon is also leasing the U/C Domain 9 office building (330,000 Sq. Ft.).

Domain 10, 11 & 12.

Austin Business Journal

 

Domain 9 rendering.

Endeavor

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Expansion of DKR Stadium started.  The link below the photo is to a short demo video.

Video

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This photo is focused on the pit for the Alexan apartment tower.  But across I-35 at upper-right in the photo is the site prep for the 15-story Huston apartment building.  

GDA

 

Here's the Huston which will have two tower cranes.

GDA

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Here's a 14-story Fairfield Inn that should be starting soon in the Rainey St. District.

AULCC

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Here's the pit for the Marriott Moxy Hotel to be known as the Experiential Hotel.

Photo by Urbannizer

 

We finally have a rendering.  The site has height limits, and they maxed out the allowable height.

White Lodging