Remember that pocket patio and “Keep Austin Weird” sculpture planned in front of the Scarbrough Building at the corner of Congress Avenue and Sixth Street? I ripped on the sculpture a little last time for being kinda corny, but now I feel bad about it. Turns out a significant portion of Austin’s Historic Landmark Commission really doesn’t like it.... ...
Digging Into New Plans for the Seaholm Waterfront’s Long-Awaited Redesign
The saga of the Seaholm intake goes way back. After work began on a mixed-use redevelopment at the decommissioned historic Seaholm Power Plant in 2013, the City of Austin’s Parks and Recreation Department announced a competition soliciting designs from local architects for a remodel of the power plant’s intake building, located on the shores of Lady Bird Lake across... ...
Ervay Theater Developers Take Aim at Parking in the Cedars
Santos Martinez, a senior land use consultant with firm Masterplan, gave the Dallas City Plan Commission a history lesson on walkable neighborhoods while on his way to obtaining a large reduction in the parking requirement for a group of historically significant buildings in The Cedars district. Martinez went before the commission earlier this month representing a development ...
Checking out Progress at Waterloo Park
It’s been a while since we’ve caught up with Waterloo Park, but the Waller Creek Conservancy’s project to revitalize the 11-acre space with trails, playgrounds, a large amphitheater, and other amenities built around the creek’s new intake tunnel has been underway for nearly a year now. Of course, the tunnel itself has been in the works since... ...
Hotel Planned for West 17th and Lavaca Street Parking Lot in Downtown Austin
Within the last couple of weeks, a New Orleans-based developer began its application process with the City of Austin’s Development Services Department to build a 204-room hotel at Lavaca and West 17th Streets, according to city documents. The company, HRI Development, has carried out some impressive adaptive reuse projects on historic buildings over the last 36... ...