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Projects Under Construction Or Being Planned in the Lower Part of Downtown Austin Downtown Austin Emerging Projects Projects under construction or being planned in the lower part of Downtown Austin 1. Fifth & Baylor (Austin Market District, West Block) 15. Republic Square Work began recently on an 80,000-square-foot retail and office The City of Austin is working in collaboration with the Downtown building on the southwest quadrant of the intersection, just in front Austin Alliance, the Austin Parks Foundation, the US General of an apartment project being built by Phoenix Properties. About Services Administration (GSA) and a variety of downtown 30,000 square feet there will be for retail use, including West Elm, stakeholders to transform this historic square into a beautiful with the balance going to office tenants. green place buzzing with people and activity. This initiative brings together private and public resources to create physical 2. Lance Armstrong Crosstown Bikeway improvements and programs that attract, engage, and reflect Austin’s diverse community. This project is now being done in coordination This project, named for seven-time Tour de France winner and with the development of a new Federal Courthouse on the block cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, will provide a continuous bike just to the west of the square. The Austin City Council has agreed route for over 6 miles, beginning at Levander Loop at US 183, to close the one-block section of San Antonio Street between following 5th Street, passing through downtown along 4th and 3rd the Square and the courthouse site, and efforts are beginning to streets, and terminating near Deep Eddy pool just west of Mopac. coordinate the designs of the two sites and the current street right- The project will include both separated, paved bicycle path and bike 28. 721 Congress of-way that will be vacated. lanes on city streets. The route is needed to provide non-motorized Austin Architect Sinclair Black is planning to renovate and add access to and through downtown, on bike facilities that are free of to an existing one-story building at Eighth Street and Congress, both cars, parked cars and crowds of joggers (as is the case of the 16. Gables Republic Park converting the former home of Wild About Music, into a six-story Lady Bird Lake Hike and Bike Trail which is a recreational facility). Gables is developing plans for a mixed-use tower with 210 mixed-use building. The project will have 16 condos on the top four apartments above ground floor retail/restaurant, on the current site floors, a restaurant on the street level, and office space on the second 3. 800 West Avenue of the Ginger Man pub, the former Fox and Hound Smokehouse and floor. a surface parking lot. The project is a 94-unit condominium tower. 29. First Baptist Church Ministry Center 36. Four Seasons Residences 4. Shoal Creek Offices 17. Energy Control Center The First Baptist Church is constructing a Ministry Center and This is a residential mixed-use tower adjacent to the Four Seasons On June 18, 2008 the Austin City Council selected a development parking garage on their current surface parking lot just south of the The proposed development consists of two buildings with Hotel, designed by internationally renowned architect Michael team led by the Trammell Crow Company to redevelop the Austin church. approximately 112,683 sq. ft. of office, 4,400 sq. ft retail and Graves. The project will have 166 condos, with some street level Energy Control Center (ECC) and the Thomas Green Water 4,000 sq. ft. restaurant, along with associated parking and utility retail space. The Residences will be managed by the Four Seasons Treatment Plant (Project C56). The ECC site, as currently proposed, improvements. 30. The Orsay Hotel and residents will have access to the services and amenities will have two condos towers with 482 units, and 15,000 sq. ft. of This is planned to be a 90-unit, 10-story condominium project on at the Four Seasons Hotel next door, including include in-residence first floor retail. dining and housekeeping services, dry cleaning, turndown services, 5. Austin Market District, East Block the bluff overlooking Red River Street and the Waller Creek valley. The Orsay is named for the Reconstruction-era Texas General Henry laundry and valet services. This proposed project consists of an eight-story mixed-use building, Orsay who once lived on the property. a five-story mixed use building, and a three-level underground 37. 21c Museum Residences and Hotel parking structure. The 385,000 sq. ft. mixed-use project would contain office space for Whole Foods and ground-floor retail. 942 21. The Ashton 31. New Downtown Post Office The project will have 209 guest rooms and 202 condos (including parking spaces will be provided in a partially below ground garage. MetLife Inc.’s Dallas office teamed with The Hanover Company The Postal Service is planning a new station at the southwest corner 12 artist lofts) as well as a world-class contemporary art museum of Houston to build a 36-story tower on the half block lot just west of East Ninth and Red River streets. The one-half block site is now that would offer free admission year-round to allow the public to experience original art in a nontraditional setting. Plans also call 6. Austin Market District, South Block Ph. II of the 100 Congress. The project (formerly named Altavida) will used for parking. The plans include a well-designed building with include 258 rental units and a 5-level parking garage and ground trees shading a wide, pedestrian-oriented sidewalk and above- and for a restaurant with a menu to be created by restaurateur Michael Construction has started on the garage portion of this second phase floor lobby, visitor parking and retail space. Five levels of below- below-ground parking, that will be available to the public after Bonadies. Unit prices are expected to start in the $300,000 range of the project will add a seven-story parking garage, 10,000 sq. ft. of grade parking will connect to the existing 100 Congress garage. hours for patrons of the Red River club scene. and top $2 million. retail space and 10,000 sq. ft. expansion to Pure Austin Fitness. GSD&M One 300 W. American Sixth Center 38. Hotel Van Zandt Whole San Diego-based JMI Realty may start construction this year on Foods a hotel project on Lady Bird Lake. The hotel, which will have 307 7. Spring Austin City Lofts rooms, will be operated by San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels. Construction started in July 2007 on a 42-story, $60 million condo 404 Rio Frost tower in the southwest quadrant of downtown, two blocks south of Bank Grande 39. Mexican-American Cultural Center (MACC) Whole Foods Market’s flagship store. The project will have several Tower Education Building levels of parking above and below ground, plus shops on the ground Gables 301 This project is a 3,110 sq. ft. education addition to the Mexican floor with 20-foot sidewalks shaded by awnings. Plans call for 263 West Ave. Congress units, priced from around $230,000 to $400,000, with most units American Cultural Center. selling for around $250,000. Austin AMLI Convention Downtown 8. Gables Park Plaza Center Construction has started on this primarily residential project (294 100 Silicon City apartments and 185 condominiums), along with 22,000 s.f. of retail Congress Labs Hall CSC and 11,000 s.f. of office and a 5,000 s.f. restaurant. 9. Pfluger Bridge Extension Project Radisson On February 2, 2006, Council approved the recommended ‘Center Four Arm’ alignment, to connect the James D. Pfluger Bicycle and Seasons Pedestrian Bridge north to Bowie Street. Design work has been completed, and construction will begin in April in 2009. Auditorium Shores Butler Park Austin Long Palmer American-Statesman Center Events Center 40. Legacy @ Town Lake Legacy Partners is constructing a 31-story luxury high-rise 32. Stubb’s Expansion residential building, with 187 apartments and 9 live / work lofts Stubb’s will add a new 1,500 seat capacity indoor nightclub on the at ground level. The site is across the street from the Milago north side of the block, the outdoor amphitheater capacity will be condominium project, at the corner of Rainey and Cummings increased from 2,200 to 3,500 and reoriented to the south, and the Streets, adjacent to the Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail. 10. Seaholm Power Plant Redevelopment restaurant will be expanded. On April 28, 2005 the Austin City Council selected Seaholm Power, LLC, led by Southwest Strategies Group, to redevelop the circa 1950 Art Deco Seaholm Power Plant and adjacent property, into a high quality, mixed-use attraction. This project is still under negotiation. Once complete, the site will feature a mix of office space, local retail shops, contemporary condos, a boutique hotel, special event space and an outdoor terrace that overlooks Lady Bird Lake. 18. New Central Library On Thursday, December 11, 2008, the Austin City Council chose the architectural team of Lake/Flato Architects and Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott on Thursday to design the new central library. Lake/Flato will design a 250,000 sq. ft. library to replace the John Henry Faulk Central Library. The new library site is on West Cesar 41. Block One Chavez Street, between Shoal Creek and soon-to-be-redeveloped the Longtime East Austin landowner and developer Richard Kooris, Seaholm Power Plant. developer of the Sixth & Brushy condos, is planning a vertical mixed-use project, Block One, that will include retail, offices and up to 140 condominiums. 33.
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