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 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. 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 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 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. 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. 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. Waller Creek Flood Diversion Tunnel 42. Saltillo District Redevelopment Master Plan The Waller Creek Tunnel Project is a stormwater bypass tunnel from The Saltillo District Redevelopment Master Plan will provide the Waterloo Park to Lady Bird Lake near Waller Beach. The tunnel framework for development of approximately 11 acres of Capital 11. 7RIO will be 22-feet in diameter and almost one mile long. The project Metro property along the E. 4th / E. 5th Streets corridor extending Plans are on hold for a 32-story condominium tower at W. 7th will remove an estimated 1,243,000 square feet of land from the from I-35 to Comal St. Street and Rio Grande by Dallas-based development company CLB floodplain of the lower Waller Creek watershed, will allow denser Partners. The 158-unit project will also have about 7,400 square 22. development in a very desirable area of downtown, and divert 43. BartonPlace Condos feet of new retail space on the ground floor. The project, being Benchmark Land Development broke ground August 31, 2007 on floodwaters that create erosion problems and safety concerns. designed by local architectural firm Rhode:Partners, is expected to a $100 million mixed-use tower at the northwest corner of Second Construction will start in 2010 and be completed in 2014. BartonPlace Condos, on 4.3 acres at 1600 Barton Springs Road, is cost more than $50 million. Street and Congress Avenue. The 683’ tall tower will have 188 being developed by local developers Perry Lorenz, Larry Warshaw luxury condominiums units (starting at $550,000), ground floor 34. Susanna Dickinson House Renovation and Austin Java restaurant co-owner Rick Engel. The $85 million development, with 250 luxury condominiums, will have six stories 12. Ovation retail, pool, 55rd level sky view resident lounge, 56th level fitness The mission of the Joseph and Susanna Dickinson-Hannig House of condos atop two levels of parking, one each above and below Atlanta-based Novare Group Holdings LLC and Austin’s Andrews center, dog park, guest suites, theater, and executive conference Museum is to preserve the home and legacy of Alamo survivor ground. About 100 of the 450 parking spaces would be reserved for Urban LLC, developers of the , hope to break room. The building, being designed by Ziegler Cooper Architects Susanna Dickinson and to celebrate Texas’ historical heritage nearby restaurants. Units will start at about $250,000, with prices ground this year on a 35-story condo tower on a portion of Block of Houston, is participating in the City’s Green Building Program. by providing programs and educational resources to visitors to Completed condos will be delivered in late 2009. up to $500,000. 51, bordered by Sixth, Nueces, Fifth and San Antonio streets. The 19. Thomas C. Green Water Treatment Plant Brush Square. Phase One includes the relocation of the Susanna project will include 436 condos and approximately 20,000 sq. ft. of Dickinson House on Brush Square’s northeast corner (completed), ground-level retail and restaurant space. On June 18, 2008 the Austin City Council selected a development 23. Marriott Hotel restoration of the house, and creation of a basic improvements plan 44. 300 Lamar Boulevard South team led by the Trammell Crow Company to redevelop the Thomas for the restoration of Brush Square. Phoenix Property is building a 5-story, 137-unit apartment project Green Water Treatment Plant (GWTP) and Austin Energy Control Indiana-based White Lodging Services Corp. is planning a $250 13. Novare Mixed-Use, Phase II (Block 52) million Marriott hotel. The 31-story Marriott convention center with ground floor retail and restaurants, on the site formerly Center (Project R74). The GWTP site, as currently proposed, will occupied by Binswanger Glass Co. Atlanta-based Novare Group Inc. and its local partner, Andrews consist of seven buildings, up to 51 stories tall. The project would hotel will have 1,000 rooms, 50,000 square feet of meeting space Urban LLC, plan to redevelop the block west of Guadalupe Street have 320 apartments, 140 condos and 235 senior independent living and street-level retail. between Fifth and Sixth streets. The project is an approximately units, as well as 588,000 sq. ft. of office space, a 375 room hotel 40-story tower that will include 550 condos, 150 hotel rooms and 10,000 sq. ft. of civic/non-profit space, and 160,000 sq. ft. of retail. 24. Westin Hotel ground-floor retail. San Antonio-based Hixon Properties Inc. and Hines, a Houston developer, are planning a 18-story, 303-room hotel with a restaurant on the street level and a pool deck and bar on the third floor overlooking Third Street. Other amenities will include 15,000 square feet of meeting space and a spa.

25. 501 Congress T. Stacy & Associates Inc., and Walton Street Capital are planning a 500,000-square-foot office and retail tower at 501 Congress that would be slightly taller than the 26-story Bank of America Center building the partnership owns at 515 Congress next door.

26. 5th and Brazos T. Stacy & Associates Inc., and Walton Street Capital are planning a 35. CMTA MetroRail project that will feature a 300-room hotel and about 200 condo units Capital Metro’s 32-mile MetroRail line will run from Leander to in a slender tower that could rise as high as 830 feet. the in downtown Austin. Construction is underway, and service will start March 30, 2009. As part of the 27. 501 Brazos All Systems Go! plan, Capital Metro evaluated future transportation Developer Tom Stacy says the plan for the half-block between options to connect more of the community to these new services, Brazos and San Jacinto streets calls for a 1,200-space parking under a project called the Future Connections Study. 45. Town Lake Park, Phases III & IV 14. Federal Courthouse garage atop about 8,500 square feet of retail/restaurant space and a new Bank of America drive-through. Design is about to begin on park improvements for an area bounded The U.S. General Services Administration is developing a new 20. / W Austin Hotel and Residences by Lady Bird Lake to the north, Riverside Drive to the South, 230,000 sq. ft. plus Federal Courthouse in downtown Austin, on the UPRR railroad on the west and South 1st street on the east, the former Intel site, just west of Republic Square. The Austin City Construction began in May 2008 on this block north of Austin City including improvements to Auditorium Shores and potentially Council has agreed to close the one block section of San Antonio Hall that will be transformed into a 36-floor high-rise featuring a additions of art to Phase 2 of the park. Street between Republic Square and the site of the new Federal 250 room luxury W Hotel, 206 luxury condominiums, and a 2,200- Court House, and efforts are beginning to coordinate and link the seat “” venue. The project will cost $260 million

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