[Austin Economy/Culture/Growth/Photos/Whatever]

The ABJ is reporting that Amazon is opening an Austin office that will create 250 Tech/IT jobs.  Two-hundred and fifty jobs is not a big news story here, but the fact that it's a high profile company is.  Their offices will be in the Domain.  

The Domain is an interesting story in itself.  It's arguably the single most intensely developed mixed use project outside of Downtown in Austin's history.  In fact one of the developers described it as "Austin's second Downtown."  That was pure marketing crap, but it's an impressive development anyway.  It used to be a large IBM industrial site that had operations for several divisions of IBM.  I worked for IBM at this location for 12 years.  IBM sold off the site to developers after the manufacturing operations moved overseas and IBM moved the rest of its Austin workforce in to a large ~6 building office park across the street.

 

Austin Business Journal article:  

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/techflash/2014/11/report-amazon-plans-big-austin-office.html

 

My dad worked at IBM from 1967 till 1997 or so.  He was forced into retirement when they moved his operation to Minnesota.  I'm so glad he was able to retire instead of move us up there.  A lot of guys got screwed on that deal.  Relocated families to Minnesota only to have it all closed down a year or two later.

[Austin & Austin Metro Projects Compilation]

Just discovered this page.  I love your rundown of all the projects.

 

Saw that you borrowed my outlines of the new property bought by the Waller Park Place group.  I wanted to add that goat_1970 on shaggy mentioned the area outlined in yellow will soon all be owned by Endeavor and they want to put a boutique hotel with condos there.