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Incentives or no, Amazon growing in Austin after nixing New York
The announcement Thursday that Amazon is canceling its planned HQ2 facility in Queens, New York, confirmed what many business and policy watchers in Austin have predicted: In the coming years Austin will see a slice of the 25,000 planned jobs…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 15, 2019
Good news: Fewer people moved to Austin in 2017. Bad news: It was still a lot of people.
Prepare to be shocked: People keep moving to Texas. A new Texas Realtors report looking at Census Bureau and U-Haul rental data found that more than half a million people relocated to the Lone Star State in 2017 – the second-highest…
Austin • By Andrew Weber, KUT • Feb 15, 2019
Watershed department works with city to clean up homeless camps
The number of people experiencing homelessness is growing in the city of Austin. Last fall, recognizing the crisis on the streets and the pressure on city resources, City Council approved an increased budget to help relieve the situation. In addition…
Austin • By Jessi Devenyns • Feb 11, 2019
City, UT to work together on moving Red River
City Council unanimously agreed Thursday to enter into an agreement with the University of Texas to facilitate the relocation of Red River Street between East 12th Street and East 32nd Street in order to develop a new arena to replace…
Austin • By Jo Clifton • Feb 8, 2019
ZAP contemplates uprooting
Last month, on Jan. 15, the Zoning and Platting Commission heard a long-awaited briefing from the University of Texas’ Uprooted study on gentrification and displacement in Austin. Dr. Jake Wegmann, one of the three authors, presented a summarized version of…
Austin • By Alyx Wilson • Feb 7, 2019
City to boost lighting for West Campus
In response to concerns about student safety, the city plans to increase spending to repair and upgrade street lights in the West Campus neighborhood. In a memo released last week, City Manager Spencer Cronk outlined short-term, mid-term and long-term plans…
Austin • By Jack Craver • Feb 5, 2019
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Council kicks off new year with measures aimed at affordability
In its first official meeting since the election, City Council unanimously approved several measures aimed at Austin’s growing affordability crisis. In an attempt to increase funding for affordable housing in a rapidly gentrifying part of East Austin, Council approved a…
Austin • By Jack Craver • Feb 1, 2019
Austin looks to engage residents and preserve 'Old Austin' through storytelling
From Wooldridge Square, the birthplace of Austin illustrator Jim Franklin’s legendary Keep Austin Weird concert poster, to Interstate 35’s historic past as a cattle driving route, Austin is built upon the stories and memories of generations past. However, as the city’s population…
Austin • By Jessi Devenyns • Jan 29, 2019
American Cities Climate Challenge brings support, not cash
The announcement two weeks ago that Austin was one of 25 U.S. cities to receive Bloomberg Philanthropies’ American Cities Climate Challenge award was greeted with much fanfare from the media. The press especially touted the $2.5 million Austin would receive…
Austin • By Jessi Devenyns • Jan 25, 2019
UT study at center of debate on tourism, hotel tax and expansion proposal
A forthcoming report from a group of University of Texas architectural students may be the next significant piece of research shaping the ongoing debate over how the city uses its Hotel Occupancy Tax funds. That study – commissioned last year…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 22, 2019
City hopes 10-foot fence will deter crime on Red River
The city of Austin is inching toward a “short-term” solution to a downtown alleyway that police and business owners say has become a magnet for criminal activity. Drug dealing, prostitution and human waste are frequent issues in the alley between…
Austin • By Jack Craver • Jan 18, 2019
IndyAustin PAC will not be involved in stadium battle
Linda Curtis, the Bastrop-based activist best known for gathering signatures for various citizen initiatives in Austin, has disbanded a political action committee linked to her advocacy group, IndyAustin. The group will continue to engage in advocacy, Curtis said in an…
