Ten Projects That will Change Austin's Skyline (Houston, Dallas: living, shop)

[EzPeterson]

Originally Posted by WDaleHerring

I want to discuss it here; I like you guys. I just said that to deviate the argument. I have found some cool stuff there, though.

You will never deviate that ongoing and truly, truly, tiresome arguement. It's a good thing that vitriol only exists on the Internet, and you don't encounter it in real life - I'd have probably snapped and landed in jail by now.

[Dallaz]

So, are all of these projects under-construction?

[JoninATX]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

So, are all of these projects under-construction?

Most of them. There are actually more projects that the OP didn't list that are U/C as well.

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by JoninATX

Most of them. There are actually more projects that the OP didn't list that are U/C as well.

That's great news.

I wish Fort Worth or San Antonio would be next.

[JoninATX]

So here is the skyscraper boom rundown list on what's U/C in Austin

1. Hotel Van Zandt | 197 FEET | 16 FLOORS | SITE PREP
2. Colorado Tower | 397 FEET | 29 FLOORS | U/C
3. JW Marriott Convention Center Hotel | 408 FT | 34 Floors | U/C
4. The Catherine | 209 FEET | 19 FLOORS | U/C
5. 7th & Rio Grande | 263 FT | 24 FLOORS | U/C
6. 311 Bowie | 423 FT | 37 FLOORS | U/C
7. Seaholm Power Plant Redevelopment | 30 FLOOR Tower | U/C

Recently T.O

1. Gables at Park Plaza | 223 FT | 18 floors | U/C | T.O.
2. SkyHouse Austin | 264 FT | 23 FLOORS | U/C | T.O.

About to start

1. Fairmont Austin Hotel | 691 FT Spire / 572 FT Roof | 47 Floors | 1,000 rooms
2. Westin Austin Downtown | 214 FT | 19 FLOORS
3. Hotel ZaZa & Apartments | 305 FEET | 24 FLOORS

I did not include any of the proposed towers that has been announced, and it also does not include any of the mid rise mixed use buildings that are going up every where around Austin.

[MedicalPartisan]

Awesome! If anyone is every passing by, snap some shots for us.

[JoninATX]

Here is a good density shot, the glass building U/C is the new Skyhouse building.



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[i35vagabond]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

Oh, lovely, just what we need, MORE oversized buildings downtown to make us even MORE like Anywhere, USA and LESS like Austin, Texas and to make downtown even LESS a place that anyone who doesn't love the effort to turn Austin into NYC would want to go.

Ah, well, I avoid downtown like the plague (after decades of going there and owning a house five minutes away from it), anyway.

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Don't be so negative. The buildings make Austin look like the vibrant futuristic town that it really is. The downtown Austin you talk about when you had a "house 5 minutes away from it" looked a lot different than the Austin 30 or 40 years before that.

I for one am a little sick and tired of people whining about how Austin is changing from the Austin they use to know 30 or 40 years ago.

Austin 30 or 40 years from now will look much different than it does after these new buildings are already built.

Austin is a continuing work in progress and there will be people like you in the year 2053 whining about how Austin is changing and no longer the Austin they knew way back in the year 2013.

You want Austin to stop growing and stay just like it is now ? A town that is stagnant is a town that's dieing.

[Zepheyr]

This is very exciting. It's a thrill seeing all these Texas cities experiencing so much positive growth when there are so many other cities and states that are declining. It's nice to know the state is healthy.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by i35vagabond

Don't be so negative. The buildings make Austin look like the vibrant futuristic town that it really is. The downtown Austin you talk about when you had a "house 5 minutes away from it" looked a lot different than the Austin 30 or 40 years before that.

I for one am a little sick and tired of people whining about how Austin is changing from the Austin they use to know 30 or 40 years ago.

Austin 30 or 40 years from now will look much different than it does after these new buildings are already built.

Austin is a continuing work in progress and there will be people like you in the year 2053 whining about how Austin is changing and no longer the Austin they knew way back in the year 2013.

You want Austin to stop growing and stay just like it is now ? A town that is stagnant is a town that's dieing.

First, change for its own sake isn't a good thing.

Second, one can live in a vibrant, changing city without turning it into Anywhere, USA. In fact, I'd say the actions that make a city more like every other city are the opposite of good change and really are a reflection of stagnant thinking in and of themselves. Throwing skyscrapers and condos at a city doesn't automatically constitute Good Change, it's more like same old same old.