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Demo is getting underway.

Photo by Urbannizer

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From today:  

Austin Business Journal on Twitter

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Here's a top down view of today's Demo.

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More destruction.  Demo should be finished this week.  This one has no underground parking levels to excavate, so it will go up quickly.

Photo by Urbannizer

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This one is moving quickly.  A tower crane permit was filed today.

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The site has been cleared.  The first floor restaurant has been officially announced and will be Del Friscoe's Grille.  That's a sister restaurant to Sullivan's Steakhouse that was demolished for this project.  The new restaurant will be pretty cool.  It's two stories open to the street.

 

Austin Design Commission Presentation

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Permits filed today and last Thursday state that construction will begin on 11/05.  The permits are for covered walkways around the site to protect pedestrians.

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Holder / DCA Construction will be erecting a 34 story Office building at 300 Colorado street. The project will take 24 months to complete and will be starting Nov 5, 2018. We are requesting permission to install our temporary pedestrian walkways per sheet 5 of our approved TCP (attached) along Colorado and 3rd as indicated.

 

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Here's the site fenced off after Demo.

Photo by corvairkeith

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The site plan was approved and released today.  This one is good to go.  There was a pause between Demo and site prep because the site plan wasn't approved yet.  But it's 100% leased and financed and has no underground levels, so it'll be going up quick.  Site prep was scheduled to start today based on city permits.  But I can't confirm that. 

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The official groundbreaking happened yesterday.  There was a possible design tweak based on the rendering shown at the groundbreaking.

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The tower crane is schedules to go up on the weekend of 12/15 & 12/16:  Permit.

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The crane should have gone up today.  But I don't have photo evidence.  Here's the site as it looked last week.

Photo by Urbannizer

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This one is U/C, and the crane is up.

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This is the latest rendering.  The mechanical screen redo is the only noticeable difference from previous renderings.

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Another photo of the recently erected crane.  This is not the most awesome tower ever, but it will fill in a skyline gap from some prominent views.

Photo by Corvairkeith

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Here's a closeup of the site.

Photo by corvairkeith

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Photo by Urbannizer.

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Here are a couple of the newer renderings from the developer Riverside Resources showing the redesigned mechanical screen.

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From this weekend.

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This one seems to be going up slow considering that there was no excavation for underground parking.

Photo by Urbannizer

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Photos by Urbannizer.

 

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From yesterday.  This one has the red crane at left-center.

Photo by deerhoof

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From this week:  

 

That's the 44-story Hanover tower at bottom right.

Photos by corvairkeith  

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Here's an update from Urbannizer:  

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This is a Photoshop by hequalshenry to show how this project will fit into the skyline.  This is the dark rectangle immediately to the right of Block 185 at center. 

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More updates from corvairkeith.