What suburb will look the most different in 5 years? (Austin: rental, daycare)

[Novacek]

Originally Posted by Novacek

I think Taylor has been has been "hurt" (not seen growth) because it's a fair distance out without freeway access (79 isn't limited access).

Hutto is close enough to 130 (and I think has annexed up to it now) that it does.


If 79 is ever upgraded (freeway or toll) I think you'll see more growth there(for Taylor and the other cities along there, Thrall etc. )


If I-14 ever happens near there, that may help push that along.

Addendum, I went looking for Williamson Co's long range transportation plan. Surprisingly, they're not calling for upgrading (all) 79 between Taylor and Round Rock as controlled access.

http://www.wilco.org/Portals/0/Depar...rch%202016.pdf

Looks like instead you'd divert to 1431 or 1660.

[love roses]

Don't under estimate Taylor. A saying I've been hearing lately is "From Skanky to Swanky" Especially with the new Brewery next to Louis Mueller's, and attention from "The Day Tripper" series. They are learning from Round Rock apparently. They've been heavily promoting downtown and now have a "Second Saturdays" event. Hutto is seeing lots of growth, but mainly in rooftops. Business growth is falling sadly behind. Pflugerville's Stone Hill is great, but not so good for business in Hutto. It's recently brought in In n' Out, Panera, Thunder Cloud Sub's and Costco.

[Rynldsbr]

Originally Posted by riaelise

I'll say that Round Rock East/Pflugerville/Hutto have experienced tremendous growth for quite a while, so I don't think they're "changing". Whatever available space there is south of 79 is just about taken. Pflugerville in particular is growing leaps and bounds each year.

Don't believe me? Check out the Gattis School Road/Three Points corridor and FM 685/SH-45/130, where the light gets backed up for miles during evening rush hour.

Commercial space along 685 in both Pflugerville and Hutto remains to be filled in and I think that Pflugerville in particular has put forward some fairly aggressive plans for that corridor between or along 685 and 130.


At one point there was a proposal or concept for a very large (+/- 1 Million square feet) of development with a couple anchor hotels and mixed use commercial and office. It was featured in the Community Impact paper a few months back. I never heard if it was actually moving forward or not. Anyone else remember seeing this?

[riaelise]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

I've been working the Taylor market (rural and town) off and on for a few years now. A surprising number of people live in Taylor and commute to Austin - for Round Rock/North Austin it's not that bad at all. There's an area that is basically Hyde Park but affordable - old homes have been being lovingly restored there for about a decade now, street by street. Housing prices are much lower than in Austin currently. Their HEB has just been redone and upgraded and you know HEB knows what they're doing!

Had a listing in Thrall a while back and discovered that they apparently are known for their excellent schools.

I absolutely adore the homes on Lake Drive. There was a three level home build at the turn of the century on over an acre. What made us hesitate about shelling out $425k was the lack of amenities in Taylor and the terrible schools. My husband considered Taylor to be "too far out".

[riaelise]

Originally Posted by Rynldsbr

Commercial space along 685 in both Pflugerville and Hutto remains to be filled in and I think that Pflugerville in particular has put forward some fairly aggressive plans for that corridor between or along 685 and 130.


At one point there was a proposal or concept for a very large (+/- 1 Million square feet) of development with a couple anchor hotels and mixed use commercial and office. It was featured in the Community Impact paper a few months back. I never heard if it was actually moving forward or not. Anyone else remember seeing this?

I was thinking of Round Rock along the Gattis School Road corridor when I wrote that though I do agree that Pflugerville is aggressively filling in retail space along 685. When I lived in Pflugerville, there was little development, the road was a simple four lane road, and there were no highways intersecting.

[Antny12]

No doubt every suburb has its case however it's truly hard to imagine anything being a bigger transformation/more development then what's going on in leander and north cedar park. Quite remarkable actually.

Round rock is steady but won't be dramatically different. Same for plfugerville. Hutto will maybe get some retail development with the new houses being built however big missed opportunity when heb built on gattis as that all but ensures they won't see one in the middle of hutto where it would of made more sense. Georgetown has some pretty big developments coming up but it's already quite established like round rock. Liberty hill is bound to get its turn but probably not for some years as Leander is just coming into its own now. Kyle and buda I don't have a ton of knowledge about so I won't speak to those- -same with manor and Elgin though I know they have an identity problem that will have to be broken before they become desirable to the masses.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by riaelise

I absolutely adore the homes on Lake Drive. There was a three level home build at the turn of the century on over an acre. What made us hesitate about shelling out $425k was the lack of amenities in Taylor and the terrible schools. My husband considered Taylor to be "too far out".

I happened to be in Taylor today, and decided to test something.

It was not rush hour. However, I left the HEB in Taylor (which is located on 95 on the north side of town) at 1:59 p.m. and drove to Central Market on North Lamar. Took 130. It was 10 minutes to Hutto, 11 minutes to 130. I was at Parmer and Mopac in 26 minutes (watching the clock all the way). Took about 15-20 minutes to get from the Taylor HEB to Dell (there was traffic and I wasn't looking at the clock then - surprisingly, there was quite a bit of traffic heading in from Taylor at that time of day). Took 40 minutes exactly to get from the Taylor HEB to Central Market, from parked to parked.

People tend to think of distance to downtown, but remember, only about 20% of workers in Austin work downtown. The rest work elsewhere, and a lot of them work north. Taylor is definitely an option for them.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by Antny12

No doubt every suburb has its case however it's truly hard to imagine anything being a bigger transformation/more development then what's going on in leander and north cedar park. Quite remarkable actually.

Round rock is steady but won't be dramatically different. Same for plfugerville. Hutto will maybe get some retail development with the new houses being built however big missed opportunity when heb built on gattis as that all but ensures they won't see one in the middle of hutto where it would of made more sense. Georgetown has some pretty big developments coming up but it's already quite established like round rock. Liberty hill is bound to get its turn but probably not for some years as Leander is just coming into its own now. Kyle and buda I don't have a ton of knowledge about so I won't speak to those- -same with manor and Elgin though I know they have an identity problem that will have to be broken before they become desirable to the masses.

Buda and especially Kyle had those same identity problems not all that long ago. Now they are booming (both have HEB's, Cabella's is right there, subdivisions popping up like mushrooms, lots of retail). Was there just this weekend on the way home from San Antonio and the Kyle HEB was absolutely packed - every single checkout was staffed and there were long long lines at all of them.

[JT-3]

The suburb of East Side

[Longhorn Al]

Kyle is going to change a lot. I think Buda/Kyle are trying to make a play for some large employer. They want to create opportunities for the citizens instead of having them commute to Austin.