Central Austin Emerging Projects July 31, 2005

Under Construction

Commercial C32 Residence Inn / Courtyard by Marriott Completion: late summer 2006 Twin 16 story towers (170-room Residence Inn and 270-room Courtyard by Marriott) are being constructed on a half block north of Contact: Ben Turner 4th between Trinity and San Jacinto, across from Brush Square and Consort, Inc. the Convention Center. A two story building will be located between 469-0500 the two towers. C37 Sovereign Bank

Contact: Jon C. Kanak The project is an approximately 10,000 s.f. building for Sovereign Bury + Partners, Inc. Bank, with addtional office space. (512) 328-0011

Residential R5.1 The Milago on Town Lake Completion: Spring 2006 Fairfield Residential, based in Grand Prairie, is building a 240 unit, 13-story condominium building overlooking Town Lake at the foot of Contact: Larry Lee Rainey Street, an area long targeted for revitalization. The units are FF Development, LP / Fairfield Residential above a multilevel parking garage, with at least two levels (817) 816-9417 underground.

Prices range from the $170’s to the $700’s.

R29 721 Congress Completion: Fall 2006 Austin Architect Sinclair Black is renovating an existing one-story building at Eighth Street and Congress, formerly the home of Wild Contact: Sinclair Black About Music, into a six-story mixed-sue building. The project will have Black & Vernooy Architects 16 condos on the top four floors, restaurant Veer 53 on the street 474-1632 level, and office space on the second floor. R30 5 Fifty Five (East 5th) Completion: Marketing for the condos began June Co-located within the Hilton Austin building is 5 Fifty Five, which has 2004. 99 loft and penthouse residences. Marketing for the condos began summer of 2004. Nearly half of the units are sold, with prices ranging Contact: 512-473-0555 from the mid-$200,000s to over $2,000,000.

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Transportation/Infrastructure T7 Second Street District Streetscape Improvement Project Completion: Fall 2004 (Phase I) The vision for the project is to enhance the identity and image of downtown Austin as a civic and cultural destination for residents, Contact: Pollyanne Melton visitors and businesses while preserving and enlivening Austin’s sense City of Austin of place. The area has been and continues to undergo very positive 512-974-6459 redevelopment, helping to achieve the City’s vision of a dense, mixed-use downtown. However, the critical missing elements of this burgeoning downtown district have been the inclusion of a critical mass of retail (and other pedestrian-oriented uses) linked by a coherent and uniquely identified, pedestrian environment. When constructed, the reconfigured roadways and streetscape improvements will provide a public-friendly setting, linking two important civic destinations – the new City Hall and the Convention Center Complex – along what will become downtown’s key shopping or “pedestrian-dominant” spine.

City of Austin A9 Convention Center Parking Garage & Central Chilling Plant Completion: January 2005 (garage), November 2005 This project includes a 685 space parking garage, an Austin Energy (chiller) district chilling plant, and 18,000 s.f. street-level retail/office uses. Contact: Robert Holland City of Austin Public Works Department 404-4191

University of Texas UT3 Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art Completion: February 2006 (Gallery Bldg.) The Blanton’s state-of-the-art new facility, located near the heart of the city at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Congress Avenue, is Contact: Jessie Otto Hite, Director scheduled to open in February 2006. Composed of two buildings that The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art face one another across a landscaped pedestrian passageway and University of Texas at Austin plaza, the new facility will create an inviting public gathering space and 512-471-7324 form a gateway between the historic university campus and the Austin community. The 105,000-square-foot Mari and James A. Michener Gallery building will house the museum’s collections and exhibitions. The 50,000-square-foot Education, Visitor Services, and Administration Building (education building) will be the center of the museum’s programs that serve a range of audiences, including university students, school children and the public. It will house administrative offices, an 299-seat auditorium, a sixty-seat lecture hall, and several classrooms, a cafe and a bookstore.

Non-Profit / Other O10 Texas Municipal Retirement System Completion: October 2005 The project is an office building for the Texas Municipal Retirement System. Contact: Gary W. Anderson, Executive Director Texas Municipal Retirement System 512-476-7577

Planned

Commercial C2c Austin Market District (East Block) Start Construction: undetermined Preliminary proposals are for a retail, restaurant and office mixed-use development. The owner is currently seeking a Conditional Use Contact: Brad Schlosser, David Vitanza Permit for a temporary surface parking lot. Schlosser Development Corp. 472-7774

C2d Austin Market District (North Block) Start Construction: 2005 This phase of the Market District project is the proposed redevelopment and expansion of the current Whole Foods building. Contact: Brad Schlosser, David Vitanza The project will include retail (including Book People, REI, Schlosser Development Corp. Anthropologie, and Teo), restaurant and office use. 472-7774

C35 ABC Bank Start Construction: Late 2005 The proposal is for a five-story building with ABC Bank on the ground floor, parking garage and office space on the upper floors. The bank Contact: Keith Moody, P.E. will have three full-service drive-thru lanes and one drive-thru ATM Espey Consultants Inc. lane. (512) 326-5659

C36 501 Congress (garage) Start Construction: early- mid-2006 Plans for this site are for a ten-story, 1,000 space parking garage. Contact: Tom Stacy T. Stacy & Assocsiates 476-9999

C38 Third & Trinity

Contact: James M. Schlissler Proposed for construction is a building that will include two Bury & Pittman, Inc. restaurants. 328-0011

Residential R4 Red River Flats Start Construction: December 2005 - January 2006 Greystar is planning a four-story, 122-unit multifamily project, on the site of the former Reddy Ice plant on Waller Creek, in the Red River Contact: Todd Wigfield Street entertainment district. Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC 469.955.0058

R9 2nd Street Retail District Residential Tower (AMLI - Block 22) Start Construction: Late 2005 Currently in design, this project will have 231 residential units in a mixed-use building with street level retail and restaurant, and Contact: Judd Willmann above-ground parking. Page Southerland Page 474-1632

R22.1 ZOM Austin 1 Start Construction: September 2005 ZOM Austin I, L.P. is being formed to develop a 290 unit luxury high rise rental project in Austin, Texas. Located at the western edge of Contact: Austin’s Central Business District overlooking Shoal Creek, ZOM ZOM Texas, Inc. Austin I will be the city’s first AA luxury rental high-rise, at a new epicenter of pedestrian-oriented development in downtown Austin. With unparalleled views of downtown, Town Lake and the lush rolling hills of West Austin, the distinctive twenty-four story residential tower will join an already vibrant neighborhood. The building complex will feature 290 residential units and 8,140 square feet of street level retail. The residential units will be housed in a 24-story high-rise tower, with a four-story townhome structure over the retail shops. Targeted to the affluent lifestyle renter, ZOM Austin I will offer a variety of large living spaces with unit features and building amenities not presently available in the downtown Austin market, and is sure to become Austin’s prestige urban living address. Groundbreaking is scheduled for September 2005.

R24 La Vista on Lavaca Start Construction: undetermined Site clearance has started for this eight story building, which is planned to have first floor restaurant/retail, 3 floors of executive suites, Contact: Mary Guerrero-McDonald and 19 condos (700 s.f. to 2,000 s.f.) on the top four floors. Guerrero-McDonald & Associates 327-2166

R25 The Milan Start Construction: summer 2005 tentative Preliminary plans are for 30 condos in a mid-rise building, and 20 apartments in a low-rise building, on the site of the former Treehouse Contact: Steffen E. Waltz restaurant. PPT Development 457-8600 The project was previously named “Park Place on Town Lake.” R26 Sixth + Brushy

Contact: Richard Kooris Plans call for 18 condominiums on this E. 6th Street site just east of Pegalo Properties I-35. 485-3000

R27 Goodwill Site (Phoenix Properties) Start Construction: 2005 Dallas-based Phoenix Property Company, the developer of 404 Rio Grande, is planning a 4- to 6-story warehouse-style apartment Contact: Tucker Lynch, Greg Jones building at the current site of Goodwill Industries at Third Street and Phoenix Property Co. Lamar Boulevard. The project is expected to have around 160 units. 214-880-0350

R28 101 Colorado Start Construction: 2005 MetLife Inc.'s Dallas office has developed plans for a 28-story tower on the half block lot just west of the 100 Congress. The tower would Contact: Steve Ihnen, P.E. include 23 level of apartments (190 units) above a 4-level parking Garrett-Ihnen Civil Engineers garage and ground floor lobby, visitor parking and retail space. 454-2400 x 11 Fronting Cesar Chavez will be 6 three-story townhomes.

Five levels of below-grade parking will connect to the the existing 100 Congress garage.

R31 Robertson Hill Apartments Start Construction: August 2005 Houston developer Martin Fein Interests Ltd. plans to build a 283-unit luxury apartment complex on San Marcos Street between Ninth and Contact: Tim Wooten, Executive Vice President 11th streets. Martin Fein Interests Ltd. (713) 684-1150

R32 303 Urban Village Start Construction: 2006 Plans call for an 8-story building, with 4 stories of residential (apartments and condos) above 3 stories of parking and first floor Contact: Farid.S. Rebeiz commercial (small market, a dry cleaning store and spa). Topping the Olive Grove Partners, Ltd. project will be a cafe and rooftop terrace. 474-2221

R34 210 Barton Springs Road Start Construction: 2006 tentative Austin developer Richard DuPont is moving ahead with a 20-story building (8 levels of parking below 12 floors of apartments) with 213 Contact: Richard DuPont apartments. The site is in the middle of the block that includes the LRC Lakeview Properties Ltd. 17-story Hyatt Regency Austin and another office building that DuPont 302-1500 owns that houses the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce. The land is now being used for parking.

R35 Swede Hill Lofts

Contact: Matthew Moore The proposed project is a 3-story multifamily residential building with Water Street Engineering parking underneath. 472-0200

R36 501 Congress Start Construction: mid-2006 Tom Stacy, a longtime Austin developer, is planning a 41-story tower, with stores, a hotel, apartments and condominiums, on Congress Contact: Tom Stacy Avenue. The project will be the city's tallest building and the most T. Stacy & Associates ambitious downtown mixed-use project. The 700,000-square-foot 476-9999 building would cost at least $140 million. The building will include three levels of stores, a 10-story luxury hotel, with as many as 250 rooms and a large terrace level overlooking downtown, and as many as 350 residential units, including penthouse condominiums more than 600 feet above street level.

Prices for the 100 condominiums are expected to range from $300,000 to $600,000 for a 1,000-square-foot unit. Rents for the 200 to 250 apartments would be at market rates, which average $1,600 a month at new downtown complexes.

R37 Neches Oak Tower

Contact: Stephen Soward The proposed use is an eight-story residential mixed-use tower with Stephen Soward & Associates 250,000 square feet of mixed-use space. 497-4629

R39 The Lofts on Shoal Creek

Contact: Richard Suttle This project is a mid-rise residential mixed-use development on the Armbrust & Brown, LLP northwest corner of W. 6th and West Avenue, overlooking Shoal 435-2300 Creek.

R40 127 E. Riverside

Contact: Michele Allen The proposal is for a mixed-use development consisting of multifamily, Drenner Stuart Wolff Metcalfe von Kreisl retail and live/work space. 404-2251

R42 300 Lamar Boulevard South

Contact: Tucker Lynch, Greg Jones Phoenix Property is planning a 5-story, 137 unit apartment project with Phoenix Property Co. ground floor retail and restaurants, on the site currently occupied by 214-880-0350 Binswanger Glass Co.

R43 Spring Start Construction: Mid-2006 Construction is expected to start in about one year on a 36-story, $60 million condo tower in the southwest quadrant of downtown, two Contact: Perry Lorenz blocks south of Whole Foods Market's flagship store. The project, called Spring, will have several levels of parking above and below 478-8774 ground, plus shops on the ground floor with 20-foot sidewalks shaded by awnings. Plans call for 220 units, priced from about $200,000 to $400,000, with most units selling for around $250,000.

Transportation/Infrastructure T4b Pfluger Bridge Extension Project Start Construction: Undetermined The planning process for this phase of the project began in the spring of 2004. The City anticipates a nine month period for the Concept Contact: Greg Kiloh Development Phase, ending with a Recommended Alternative. This City of Austin, Economic Growth & will be followed by a 12-month period for Final Design. Redevelopment Services 974-7836

T5 Waller Creek Flood Diversion Tunnel

Contact: Gary Kosut, P.E. The proposed 15-22 ft diameter flood diversion tunnel would allow City of Austin, Watershed Protection & development of the existing flood plain in the lower Waller Creek area. Development Review The City and the County are discussing the economics of the project 974-3374 and are analyzing the construction alternatives - the original 22 foot diameter tunnel and the 15.5 foot diameter alternative - working with the City's consultants and with representatives of the Downtown Austin Alliance. The City has also recently engaged economic development consultants to review the economic projections contained in Brown and Root / Espey Padden's additional studies. The consultants, Kent Dussair, President of CDS Market Research in Houston and Steve Spillette, of Spillette Consulting, also in Houston, delivered their report to the City in July 2004.

T6 Lance Armstrong Crosstown Bikeway Start Construction: 2005 This project, named for seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, will provide a continuous bike route for over Contact: Stephen “Colly” Kreidler 6 miles, beginning at Levander Loop at US 183, following 5th Street, City of Austin passing through downtown along 4th and 3rd streets, and terminating 974-7046 near Deep Eddy pool just west of Mopac. The project will include both separated, paved bicycle path and bike lanes on city streets. The route is needed to provide non-motorized access to and through downtown, on bike facilities that are free of both cars, parked cars and crowds of joggers (as is the case of the Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail which is a recreational facility).

City of Austin A2 Seaholm Power Plant Reuse / Seaholm District Master Plan

Contact: Greg Kiloh On April 28, 2005 the Austin City Council selected Seaholm Power, Economic Development & Redevelopment LLC, led by Southwest Strategies Group, to redevelop the circa 1950 Services Art Deco Seaholm Power Plant and adjacent property, into a high City of Austin quality, mixed-use cultural attraction. 974-6096 A3 Green Water Treatment Plant

Contact: Andy Covar, Assistant Director The Water and Wastewater Utility has contracted with CH2MHILL for City of Austin preliminary engineering, design, and construction support services for 512-972-0174 a new water treatment plant to be sited at the existing Green Water Treatment Plant (WTP) site or another appropriate site.

A8 Mexican-American Cultural Center (MACC) Start Construction: November 2005 The 126,000 s.f. Cultural Center is to be dedicated to the preservation, creation, presentation and promotion of Mexican-American cultural Contact: Paul Medrano, Public Works arts and heritage. Phase I will include an outdoor plaza and a City of Austin two-story structure to house offices with classrooms/meeting rooms. A 974-7141 multi-purpose building will be designed and constructed that will seat 300 people for a performance or 150 for a sit down dinner. Associated surface parking and landscaping will also be part of Phase I. Ultimately a large 800 seat theater, a small 300 seat theater, the outdoor Plaza, and the two story education, exhibit, rehearsal and office building and a two story parking garage will be built.

A10 Republic Square Start Construction: Project is in Schematic Design; no The City of Austin is working in collaboration with the Downtown Austin dates have been set for construction. Alliance, the Austin Parks Foundation, the US General Services Administration (GSA) and a variety of downtown stakeholders to Contact: Stuart Strong transform this historic square into a beautiful green place buzzing with City of Austin people and activity. This initiative brings together private and public Parks and Recreation Department resources to create physical improvements and programs that attract, 974-6766 engage, and reflect Austin's diverse community. This project is now being done in coordination with the development of a new Federal Courthouse on the block just to the west of the square. The Austin City Council has agreed to close the one-block section of San Antonio Street between the Square and the courthouse site, and efforts are beginning to coordinate the designs of the two sites and the current street right-of-way that will be vacated.

A11 Block 21

Contact: Jan Stephens On April 28, 2005 the Austin City Council selected Stratus Properties City of Austin to develop this key full block in the emerging Second Street Retail Economic Growth & Redevelopment District. Services 974-7852 As part of the RFP, the City was sought a proposal that: • provides a positive economic and financial impact to the City, • enhances and contributes to downtown and the 2nd Street District, with sufficient retail use, but also different uses and cultural or entertainment attractions; and • complements existing neighborhood uses and fits in well with the new City Hall, adjacent retail, and adjacent housing.

Respondents were encouraged to include as part of their development proposals a viable proposal with one or more of the following cultural entities that meets the associated space and operational needs of the entity in a new downtown facility: 1) Texas Music Hall of Fame, 2) "Austin City Limits" studios and KLRU Offices, and 3) the Austin Children's Museum

A12 Town Lake Park, Phase II Start Construction: February 2006 The construction of the second of four phases of the 54+ acre urban park is scheduled to start in February 2006. Phase II of the park will Contact: Robert Holland redevelop the old city coliseum site with an interactive fountain City of Austin, designed by artist Donald Lipski. Parking for approximately 60 park Public Works Department visitors will be provided just north of the Dougherty Arts Center. There 404-4191 will be an observation hill created for viewing, lots of landscape planting, a lagoon with water collected from the new Palmer Events Center, restrooms and a spiral garden area designed by a local artist team lead by Beverly Penn and funded by the Junior League of Austin as donation to the park.

University of Texas UT4 UT Conference Hotel Start Construction: 2006 Plans call for 250 hotel rooms, 30,000 square feet of conference space and an above-ground parking garage for 1,100 vehicles. Contact: Pat Clubb Vice President for Employee and Campus Services University of Texas at Austin

U.S. Government US1 Federal Courthouse Start Construction: late-2006 or early-2007 The U.S. General Services Administration is developing a new 230,000 sq. ft. plus Federal Courthouse in downtown Austin, on the Contact: Roger Curtis former Intel site, just west of Republic Square. U.S. General Services Administration (817) 978-3452 The Austin City Council has agreed to close the one block section of San Antonio Street between Republic Square and the site of the new Federal Court House, and efforts are beginning to coordinate and link the design of the two sites.

Capital Metro CM1 Saltillo District Redevelopment Master Plan Start Construction: NA The Saltillo District Redevelopment Master Plan will provide the framework for development of approximately 11 acres of Capital Contact: Sam Archer Metro property along the E. 4th / E. 5th Streets corridor extending from Asst. Director for Community Involvement I-35 to Comal St. Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (512) 389-7546

CM2 Capital Metro All Systems Go! Commuter Rail

Contact: John Almond Capital Metro’s 32-mile Downtown / Northwest rail line will run from Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Leander to the Austin Convention Center in Downtown Austin. 338-2767

Non-Profit / Other O3 Austin Museum of Art Start Construction: undetermined The site is located just south of Republic Square. Contact: Dana Friis-Hansen, Executive Director Austin Museum of Art 495-9224 x233

O4 Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Center for the Performing Arts Start Construction: Fall 2005 Deconstruction and remediation has started on this project that will transform the existing Palmer Auditorium into a multi-theater Contact: Stan Haas performing arts center to provide performance and rehearsal facilities TeamHaas Architects for all of Austin's performing artists. The center will be the permanent 478-1150 home to Austin Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Austin, and Austin Lyric Opera. In addition, world-class performance facilities will be available for the full range of Austin's other performing artists and arts organizations. The main 2,300-seat Dell Hall will feature two balconies; the smaller Rollins Studio Theater will be a flexible, 43’ x’ 60’ space that will seat up to 250.

O8 Susanna Dickinson House Renovation & Brush Square Renovation

Contact: Deborah Rosenquist The mission of the Joseph and Susanna Dickinson-Hannig House Friends of the O. Henry Museum Museum is to preserve the home and legacy of Alamo survivor 472-1903 Susanna Dickinson and to celebrate Texas’ historical heritage by providing programs and educational resources to visitors to Brush Square. Phase One includes the relocation of the Susanna Dickinson House on Brush Square’s northeast corner (completed), restoration of the house, and creation of a basic improvements plan for the restoration of Brush Square.