When units aren’t used by the owners, they will be made available for rent through Airbnb.More than 50% of the units have been reserved so far, according to developers Newgard Development Company and Pearlstone Partners.NGD Homesharing will manage the building. Wow. If you needed further evidence of Austin’s boomtown status, there are now at least 37 towers proposed for or rising downtown. A whopping 3.7 million of the 10 million square feet of office space under construction in the metro is happening downtown, according to CoStar Group Inc. — and there are more offices on the drawing board. Take 44 East, for example.
Those plans appear to have been nixed after a committee of the city of Austin’s Historic Landmark Commission didn’t like the proposal.GarzaEMC LLC is the civil engineer and TBG is the landscape architect. Flintco LLC is the general contractor. A demolition permit has been requested from the city. The civil engineer is WGI, formerly Big Red Dog Engineering.If plans go forward, the tower would replace the Walmart tech office as well as eateries Lonesome Dove, Chinatown Downtown and Frank. It will replace Maiko Sushi Lounge at 311 W. Sixth St. and a retail banking branch of BBVA at 321 W. Sixth St.BBVA will have a significant presence in the new tower, taking 4,000 square feet for a bank branch and an undetermined amount of the office space, said Hunter Barrier, South Central president of Ryan Companies. Gensler designed the tower.The 1.46-acre courthouse site is bound by West 17th Street on the south, San Antonio Street on the west, West 18th Street on the north and Guadalupe Street on the east. This one would be big. Plus a courthouse. The average unit size will be 955 square feet and the average price will be $715,000.Among the planned amenities: a rooftop swimming pool, fitness center, co-working space, dog park, 24-hour concierge and valet parking.Construction could start in the first quarter of 2021. Katerra is the general contractor.This 20-story, 272 unit-apartment tower from Trammell Crow Residential is under construction at 700 E. 11th St. along I-35, just east of Symphony Square. The tallest completed building in the U.S. city of Austin, Texas is the 58-story Independent, which is 690 ft (210 m) tall.Completed in 2019, it is the tallest building in Texas outside of Houston and Dallas and the tallest all-residential tower west of the Mississippi River. Plus a courthouse. A 33-story luxury hotel from Austin-based Hesperus Group LLC is being planned for the Brick Oven restaurant location at 1201 Red River St. near Waterloo Park.The developer is striving for Austin's first five-star hotel.A site plan for the hotel is approved, but no building plans have been submitted to the city of Austin Development Services Department yet.The developer hasn’t responded to requests for comment on its timeline for the project.The luxury hotel designed by BOKA Powell has been proposed for the site before. DPR Construction is general contractor. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of There will be a café on the first floor.
Chicago-based Solomon Cordwell Buenz is the architect.Plans call for nine floors of parking for residents and building employees above the ground-level residential lobby and restaurant or retail space.That would be topped by 32 floors of leasable apartments and then two amenity levels with a pool.The popular cocktail bar Roosevelt Room and next door event space The Eleanor will remain in place, wedged between Hanover Republic Square and an existing condo tower, Plaza Lofts.A 28-story condo tower dubbed The Linden is proposed for the corner of 17th and Guadalupe streets.The 117-unit tower at 313 W. 17th St. from New York-based Reger Holdings LLC will have ground floor retail.