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These big projects can't keep happening, but  yet they do.  A  site plan was filed this week for a 48-Story residential/hotel project located at 90 Rainey.  This should be another 550' to 600' project.  That seems to be the new height ceiling.  But there is one big negative with this project.  It is replacing the Container Bar in the Rainey St. Entertainment District.

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The developer officially announced this project today and released a rendering.  It's about half hotel and half apartments.  They purposely left out a lot of towers in the skyline to make it standout more.  Boo.  Anyway, it gained three floors and will take out two bars on Rainey St.  But the developer stated that he hopes the Container Bar will move into the first floor of this project while the second bar moves into the second floor.  It's the fifth tower of about 600' proposed for the Rainey area.

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The Design Commission approved this on Monday.  But since they are going taller than the density bonus allowed, they will also need to get approval from the Planning Commission and City Council.  A lot of new renderings were shown at the Design Commission meeting.  Here are a few, and the link below has more.

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The 52nd floor sky deck.

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Design Commission Presentation

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The bungalow bar on the site will not be incorporated into the project as originally planned.  But it appears that the container bar will be.  The Historical Landmark Commission takes up the bungalow Demo at their 02/24 meeting.  Here's the meeting presentation:  
 

02/24/2020 Historical Landmark Commission Presentation

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My previous post from February was about the Demo of the house turned bar on the site.  It is still not settled.  Last week the Historic Landmark Commission voted to postpone the Demo vote to June by a 6-1 vote.  The Commission said they can't stop the Demo, but they can continue to delay the project just because they don't like it.  The one no vote was from the only Commissioner with common sense who didn't think it was appropriate to delay just to spite the developer.  The Commission can legally delay the vote until sometime in July, which I suspect the A-Holes will do. 

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It seems this building may start construction soon. Now planned at 74 floors it is expected to rise over 1000 feet and will likely be the tallest building in Texas.

The mixed-use building is now planned to contain:

352 apartments

251  room hotel

686,000sf of office space

https://www.kvue.com/article/money/economy/boomtown-2040/planned-74-story-austin-skyscraper-could-become-tallest-texas/269-84630397-f6a5-4db7-9a10-b43b4b5da70c

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The previous post is referring to the Waterline project about a block away.  This one increased in height by about five floors after it was announced as a 50-story building.  All the condos with the exception of the penthouse sold out in couple days before this one even broke ground.  That's why Austin is getting so many residential towers.  Here are a couple renderings courtesy the developer.

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Of course project renderings tend to leave out neighboring projects complete or not.  It's the third tallest rendered building in this four tower rendering.

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This project took out two popular bars in the Rainey Entertainment District including the Container Bar.  But the project will include new bars in the tower.  The bungalow bars on Rainey are disappearing and being replaced with bars in skyscrapers.  The first pier was poured a couple weeks ago, and the Luffing crane is scheduled to go up in October.  This is the view from the construction webcam.  That link is below the photo.

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