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I was going to try and work on this more this weekend and realize that this is a first effort. This is a rendition of future and under construction towers in the downtown and possible East Bank area.

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Just for fun... Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I got a little impatient and wanted to see what all these projects might look like added to our skyline. So i had a little fu

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*Note: I copied the text from a post I made on another forum. Most of the commentary is not for y'all. Some of this is construction progress. Some is just miscellaneous. I wish I was half as talented

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I'd love to see an Austin and Nashville tower crane tally within their respective core's right now. Fairly certain it's almost even right now. Although Austin is clearly ahead in the high rise game.

I did my part.  :) On Friday I posted an updated tally for Austin (at the bottom of page 28) in the Tallest U/C project thread.  I counted 28 tower cranes on that day. 

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Hey ATX...what's the tallest that Austin is building right now?

The 58-story, 688' Independent condo tower is the tallest proposal.  Financing and a ground breaking should be announced soon since over 90% of the units were reserved in the first week.  The tallest project actually U/C is the 36-story, 595' (with spire) Fairmont hotel.  I just published my latest list in Austin's Tallest projects in the Austin forum:  

Austin's Tallest Project Listing

 

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The 58-story, 688' Independent condo tower is the tallest proposal.  Financing and a ground breaking should be announced soon since over 90% of the units were reserved in the first week.  The tallest project actually U/C is the 36-story, 595' (with spire) Fairmont hotel.  I just published my latest list in Austin's Tallest projects in the Austin forum:  

Austin's Tallest Project Listing

 

So uh... wanna trade Westins?

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So uh... wanna trade Westins?

That's funny.  Architecture is definitely art in the sense that it's all in the eye of the beholder.  The design of Austin's Westin is not that popular in the Austin sub-forum at SSP.  But the high end hotel competition in Austin has really made developers step up their game.  The best example of this is that the original renderings of the JW were god awful ugly.  It looked like a middle of nowhere highway motel that got super sized to 1,000 rooms.  Then the Fairmont hotel was announced.  The JW was redesigned to its incredible final product.  Since then the new hotel proposals have also stepped it up.  Competition is a good thing.  :)

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I'm still trying to understand why developers aren't going higher here in Nashville....like Austin.  Are there just too many regulations against height here in the CBD...or something else?

I don't know either , but when I come to economic Austin has to be doing something right The Austonian in Downtown Austin , pricing Start at $1.5 million to live in there $10 million for the penthouse  at 8 thousand sq ,  

also the tower is 56 floors , this is a big difference  , I'm not saying that Nashville cannot support a tower like this I live in the icon and they have a penthouse on the market here  for 2 million dollars still a lot of money but its not 10 million dollars,  

Nashville doesn't have a full million dollar condo price tower nor has one been planned at any hight 505cst I don't believe will as expensive as that tower is 

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I don't know either , but when I come to economic Austin has to be doing something right The Austonian in Downtown Austin , pricing Start at $1.5 million to live in there $10 million for the penthouse  at 8 thousand sq ,  

also the tower is 56 floors , this is a big difference  , I'm not saying that Nashville cannot support a tower like this I live in the icon and they have a penthouse on the market here  for 2 million dollars still a lot of money but its not 10 million dollars,  

Nashville doesn't have a full million dollar condo price tower nor has one been planned at any hight 505cst I don't believe will as expensive as that tower is 

Yeah...I'm wondering what the major differences are between Austin and Nashville, as far as condo numbers and pricing.  I'm guessing there are a few more people with big money in the Austin market...as well as maybe a few-years head start on us?  Plus...I wonder if Austin having better public transit helps them?

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Yeah...I'm wondering what the major differences are between Austin and Nashville, as far as condo numbers and pricing.  I'm guessing there are a few more people with big money in the Austin market...as well as maybe a few-years head start on us?  Plus...I wonder if Austin having better public transit helps them?

I don't know enough about the big money and head start theories to comment on those.  But I will say our mass transit system has helped.  It has helped in the sense that it is so terrible and the roads/highways are so freaking congested that people are moving en masse to Downtown/Central Austin because commutes have gotten so bad. 

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Views are never guaranteed unless the building owners have purchased the air rights over the surrounding buildings, which is what the 1515 Demonbreun folks did over the Comfort Inn, thus keeping their pretty phenomenal Gulch & downtown views. 

Don't quote me on this but I don't believe the above is true.  My understanding is that this owner has not sold his air rights.  

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Not mine because I don't drone, but...

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EDIT: I'm really quite satisfied with the way this lighting scheme turned out. This bridge always seemed rather drab and dreary up until now. So many cities have their iconic bridges with unique designs and ours is just this plain little arch. At least now it has some uniqueness to it!

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