Houston-based Allen Harrison Company has made its first public move on downtown Austin’s historic Depot Hotel at 504 E. 5th Street, by revealing plans to demolish the non-historic structures on site. Until recently, the site was the location of Carmelo’s restaurant. Michele Lynch, a land use specialist with Metcalfe Wolff Stuart & Williams, will make their case... ...
Dallas High School Restoration Adds Downtown Housing, as Knox-Henderson Apartment Proposal Regroups
Two Dallas developments recently in the news have evolved significantly since last year. Matthews Southwest is following its completion of the historic Dallas High School restoration by adding a mixed-income rental project on the same block, just as Alliance Residential Company has revealed a redesign of its planned Knox-Henderson multifamily complex. Now that Dallas developer ...
For Bouldin Creek’s Hooters Preservationists, Size Definitely Matters
The residents of the Bouldin Creek neighborhood in South Austin must really love wings. That’s at least the impression I’m getting from a recent Austin Monitor article covering the Stream Realty Partners development of a mixed-use office building at 425 West Riverside Drive, a large triangular lot occupied by the city’s only Hooters restaurant and not... ...
Lofts on Cedar Springs Townhome Project Headed to Oak Lawn
At a recent meeting of the Dallas City Plan Commission, Houston-based developer Urban Lofts Townhomes got a hearing to obtain a multifamily subdistrict zoning in Oak Lawn, as part of the firm’s proposed new townhome development at 4523 Cedar Springs Road, The Lofts on Cedar Springs. The commissioners went easy on Urban Lofts’ representative, Karl Crawley of the land ...
You Are Here: Windsor Park
Windsor Park, the assumed name for a region of neighborhoods occupying much of central Austin’s northeastern quadrant, just might be the city’s most well-preserved history lesson on the post-WWII suburbanization of the United States. Laid down from scratch, streets and all by local mega-builder Nash Phillips/Copus, the growth of master-planned subdivision projects in the city ...