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Capital Metro hears proposals to redevelop Plaza Saltillo area
It’s a familiar headline at this point, but more change is coming to East Austin. After years of planning and discussion, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority is on the verge of selecting a development plan for the Plaza Saltillo area.…
Development • By Elizabeth Pagano • Apr 16, 2014
Architect unveils conservancy’s plans for Waller Creek makeover
Austin leaders want to give one of the city’s underperforming assets – Waller Creek – an extreme makeover. But it’s going to take cooperation from private landowners, and maybe some action from our men and women in blue, to make…
Uncategorized • By Charlotte Moore • Jun 12, 2013
Fifty-eight lobbyists registered to bend ears, twist arms at City Hall
Although the City of Austin requires lobbyists to register and pay a $300 fee once a year, the city does not notify registered lobbyists when their registration has expired. That means a number of local lobbyists were surprised to learn…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • May 6, 2013
Council briefed on Green Treatment Plant redevelopment status
Proceeds from the proposed sale of the former Green Water Treatment Plant grounds to a development group that includes national firm Trammell Crow, locals Perry Lorenz and Constructive Ventures would net the City of Austin $42.4 million. However, that amount…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Mar 23, 2012
Questions arise over adequacy of city tree ordinance
The Planning Commission had its chance to host the ongoing fight over the removal of a downtown Heritage Tree, and after hours of discussion and testimony, opted to delay a final decision until their next meeting. A request for…
Uncategorized • By Elizabeth Pagano • Sep 1, 2011
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Downtown Commission gets glimpse of second proposed convention hotel
The city got its first look at another proposed convention center hotel at last night’s meeting of the Downtown Commission. The 1,100-room hotel from the San-Diego based Manchester Texas Financial Group would be the second large hotel going up over…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • Jul 21, 2011
City seeking federal funds for Eastside revitalization
Austin will submit its much anticipated, and somewhat delayed, application for federal revitalization funds today, a grant intended to boost business expansion along an industrial corridor on Austin’s near East Side. The Community Development Commission, which heard an update…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Jul 14, 2011
Council approves hotel fee waivers with timeline, wage restrictions
Council approved waiving $3.8 million in development fees Wednesday for a 1,000-room hotel on Congress Avenue between Second and Third streets, a hotel many say is badly needed in order to increase city tourism. In return for those waivers, White…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • Jun 30, 2011
Downtown density bonus goes unused in favor of CURE overlay
Council approved one more high-density downtown tower last week that used a “CURE” overlay and bypassed interim downtown density bonuses. Four years after the interim downtown density bonus program was proposed, not a single project has used it to gain…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Jun 30, 2011
Convention Center hotel discussion postponed to next week
The Council delayed action on an economic development agreement with White Lodging on Thursday. The deal, which would support the construction of a Marriott convention center hotel on Congress Avenue, will instead be vetted next Wednesday during a special called…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Jun 24, 2011
Waller tunnel gets Council go-ahead to start construction
Let the digging begin. Council members approved a series of contract authorizations, ordinances, and amendments to prior agreements on Thursday that will at long last enable work to begin on the Waller Creek Tunnel Project. According to city documents,…
