Austin & Austin Metro Projects Compilation

[The ATX]

Just another view of the construction activity on the west side of Downtown from Lady Bird Lake (Colorado River).  At least 5 more towers are proposed for the area where the cranes are concentrated. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://flic.kr/p/ozPKbd

[The ATX]

It looks like the Green Water office tower will be starting sooner than I expected.  I'll be watching the site and will post pictures when it breaks ground.  I added an arrow showing where the office tower will go in this shot I took last week of the Green Water site:  

 

 

Here're the latest renderings of the tower:

Both images can be found here:  http://looplink.natl.cbre.com/xNet/Looplink/Profile/Profile.aspx?stid=cbre7&LID=17494141&LL=true

[The ATX]

Here's an updated top 40 list of Austin's tallest under construction and proposed high rises.  I'm combining my previously separate Proposed and Under Construction lists and will post this in both the Under Construction and Proposed threads.  Much of Austin's booming construction activity is for residential mid-rises and not on the list.

 

Virtually all of the information was obtained from press releases, city permit searches, published articles and published renderings.  I use Emporis high rise standards for including projects to the list.

 

There are several State, University of Texas and Travis County buildings where the status and height information is not easy to obtain and may not currently be as I have listed.  I probably haven't even included all of them on this list.  But all of these buildings are on the low end of the high rise scale.  So I don't really care.

 

The top three on the list all have the potential to be Austin's new tallest.  If they all get built as proposed Austin will have four towers in the ~650' to 700' range which will make for a nice skyline.

 

 

Edited August 14, 2014 by Texas Hill Country

[The ATX]

Here's an updated top 40 list of Austin's tallest under construction and proposed high rises.  I'm combining my previously separate Proposed and Under Construction lists and will post this in both the Under Construction and Proposed threads.  Much of Austin's booming construction activity is for residential mid-rises and not on the list.

 

Virtually all of the information was obtained from press releases, city permit searches, published articles and published renderings.  I use Emporis high rise standards for including projects to the list.

 

There are several State, University of Texas and Travis County buildings where the status and height information is not easy to obtain and may not currently be as I have listed.  I probably haven't even included all of them on this list.  But all of these buildings are on the low end of the high rise scale.  So I don't really care. 

 

The top three on the list all have the potential to be Austin's new tallest.  If they all get built as proposed Austin will have four towers in the ~650' to 700' range which will make for a nice skyline.

 

 

Edited August 14, 2014 by Texas Hill Country

[The ATX]

This crane is for a Downtown project that I haven't posted about because I thought it was completed.  The project is Cirrus Logic's headquarters campus on W. 6th St.  Cirrus is one of Austin's largest computer chip companies.  (I work for another one of them.)  About a year ago over 90% of Cirrus' chips went into Apple products.  Having such a dependence on one customer is scary.  I have read that they have recently reduced their dependence on Apple to around 80% - still scary.  But apparently they are confident enough with their business model to build a nice looking downtown campus.  Freescale (formerly Motorola) is the largest Austin chip comapany .  AMD's defacto headquarters is located in Austin, and Intel has a large presence as well.

 

Photo by KevinFromTexas:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6682674&postcount=1

 

 

 

Here is a rendering:  

http://community.calrec.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ISC_Calrec_CirrusLogic_1.jpg

Edited August 14, 2014 by Texas Hill Country

[The ATX]

Here's a nice shot of the recently topped out Seven apartment tower:  

Photo by Urbanizer:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6690902&postcount=3713

[The ATX]

I posted some info a while back in the Proposed Projects thread about the Dell Medical Center at the University of Texas.  The final build out will consist of 30 buildings, and some of them are highlighted in burnt orange in the graphic below.  Site prep and possibly some construction is underway on four or five of the buildings.  One or two tower crane permit requests were filed earlier this summer and last week one request for four more tower cranes was filed.  This area will be full of cranes by next year. 

 

Here's the permit:  

https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=11195292

 

Here's the map of the project:

http://forum.skyscra...07&postcount=63

Edited August 15, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

The next three months look pretty good for big projects breaking ground.  With the exception of Aspen Heights and the Green Water office building, all of these projects are on one intersection - Red River and Cesar Chavez.

 

 All three of the Waller Park Place towers have financing and appear to be on pace for their scheduled November ground breaking.

 

The Green Water office tower and 99 Trinity also have financing and are waiting for final city approvals which they should have by November.

 

The Fairmont has been delayed several times, but appears to be on track for a September ground breaking.

 

Aspen Heights Apartments already has site prep activity. 

 

[The ATX]

Some minor updates:  

 

The proposed University of Texas Headquarters building has increased in size from 15 to 19 stories.  Demolition of the existing buildings on site should begin soon:

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/plan-for-ut-systems-downtown-austin-offices-grows-/ng6Lm/

 

A developer is proposing a very large mixed use development in North Austin.  The proposed zoning changes would allow for two office buildings  in the ~15 to 20-story range.  No big deal other than this is well outside of the downtown core in an area that has no high rises:

https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=11155900  

 

Urbanizer at SSP snapped a photo of soil sampling taking place on the site of the future Travis County  Courthouse.  The proposed height is 17-stories.  But the County Commission wants to partner with private developers to create a much larger project that will reduce the county's expenditures on the new courthouse.  The site has no height limitations, and one of the County Commissioners was quoted as saying he would like to see the project be as tall as 70-stories.

Urbanizer:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6697626&postcount=3745

Edited August 22, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Here are a couple renderings of the University of Texas System Headquarters:

 

Renderings provided by Austinite101:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6700292&postcount=876

[The ATX]

Here's a virtual walk through of the future street grid and trail system expansion in the Green Water and Seaholm areas.  (For those not keeping up it's the former industrial area that is now full of cranes as seen in post #185 on the previous page:  

http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.php/topic/116108-tallest-under-construction-projects/page-10#entry1315792

 

http://youtu.be/rbKzhrwZ0Bk

Edited August 23, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Since soil sampling is going on at the site of the future Travis County Courthouse, I thought I'd show a vision from a couple years ago when the county announced their plans for a new courthouse and what they would like to do in a partnership with private developers.  The yellow tower is the 72-story private development portion.   I don't know where the "72" number came from, and the final project probably won't be that grand.  But a decent sized tower is still likely.  

 

Article:  http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2012-05-04/courting-change/all/

Edited August 23, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Here are a couple shots from today of the Hotel Van Zandt construction progress.  This is in the Rainey St. District:    

 

 

Both photos by CorvairKeith:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6702173&postcount=94

[The ATX]

Here are a couple of nice shots by KevinFromTexas at SSP showing how the soon to be completed JW Marriott and Colorado towers fit into the Congress Avenue Skyline.  Austin's skyline will have three peaks developing over the next couple years:  

 

1.  Congress Ave (in the center of Downtown)

2.  West End (Green Water & Seaholm)

3. East End (Rainey St. District)

 

Photos by KevinFromTexas:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6702233&postcount=425

 

The Westin Hotel is coming along:  

 

Photo by CoevairKeith:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6700195&postcount=130

Edited August 23, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Here's that "West End".  There are at least six more proposed towers that will be visible from this view - including a possible new tallest.  The potential new tallest will be located approximately in the middle of the picture in that little spot where there are no cranes or buildings.

 

Photo by KevinFromTexas:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6702251&postcount=31

Edited August 23, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Here's a shot of Green Water Residential Tower #1, which is just starting to rise above ground, and the Seven Residential Tower in the background:  

 

KevinFromTexas:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6702277&postcount=138

[The ATX]

Here's the Bowie (as in Jim Bowie, Alamo hero and drunk who got a knife named after himself) Residential Tower with the Seaholm Residential Tower rapidly rising in front of it:  

 

Both Photos by KevinFromTexas:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6702272&postcount=365

Edited August 23, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Here's the soon to be completed Catherine Residential Tower with the Broadstone sticks on cement mid-rise residential building in the foreground.  The Broadstone is taking forever.  You can see the stairwell in the center of the Broadstone.  Apparently we are waiting for a small forest to be cut down somewhere so the lumber can be shipped in to build the apartments around it.

 

Both Photos once again brought to you by KevinFromTexas:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6702292&postcount=100

Edited August 23, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Here's that U/C Cirrus Logic Headquarters.  If you have an iPhone, you have Cirrus Logic computer chips:  

 

Another KevinFromTexas shot:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6702301&postcount=883

[The ATX]

The oh so close to being finished JW Marriott is in the middle:    

 

KevinFromTexas:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6702284&postcount=596

[The ATX]

Here's the also oh so close to being completed Colorado Tower (right-center) on the all but shutdown due to construction 3rd St. That's the JW Marriott on the left:  

 

Photo by CorvairKeith:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6700261&postcount=424

Edited August 23, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Two demo permit requests were recently filed for the two Rainey St area houses shown in the Streetview capture below.  This is next to the U/C Hotel Van Zandt and across the street from the proposed three tower Waller Park Place project.  No word yet on what might be built here.  But developers are quickly putting together projects on the remaining parcels that don't already have towers proposed.  This was a mostly single family neighborhood in 2007 that just happened to be on the edge of Downtown.  It was rezoned as Central Business District, and the rest is history.  

 

Permits:  

https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=11191195

https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=11191191

 

Edited August 23, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Here's a cell phone pic from this morning of the Seaholm condo tower.  It looks like it might be up to 9 floors.  This area is going to be incredible after all the towers get built.  

 

[The ATX]

Demolition prep has begun already on the parking garage and six story building in the center of this photo.  This is for the University of Texas System Headquarters:  

 

Photo by Ivanwolf:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6708028&postcount=61

 

 

Here's the rendering again from a previous post:  

 

Rendering provided by Austinite101:  http://forum.skyscra...2&postcount=876

 

[The ATX]

Movement on The Hotel ZaZa and Gables Residential Tower has been non existent for several months.  But this week 96 building permit requests for finishing out hotel rooms and apartments were filed.  So this project looks to be starting real soon.  Hotel ZaZa is a popular boutique hotel with locations only in Houston and Dallas.  The site is currently a surface parking lot.  

 

Here are the permit filings:

https://www.austintexas.gov/devrevie...erRSN=11205584 

 

Here's an ugly rendering of what appears to be a nice project.  It's 24-stories and over 300':

http://www.austinchronicle.com/imager/b/original/1401244/adfb/pols_then.jpg