AUSTIN | Torre | 182 Feet | 18 Floors | Complete
 

This one is 14 floors of apartments over two above grade parking levels. The site includes 1910, 1912 and 1914 Nueces St.

The site plan:
https://abc.austintexas.gov/web/perm...ertyrsn=109528

The site from Streetview:
https://i.imgur.com/V5tsrYn.png

West campus special incoming.

It's really weird. 15 years ago the West Campus explosion would have been the biggest story in Austin.

If nothing else, West Campus is actual honest to god urban density in Texas. I'll take it even if they are all ugly stucko-monstrosities.

There are a few neighborhoods in each city that I’d count. The Pearl in SA is getting there, for instance.

It's a great thing to see. Busing students in from all over town (Riverside, Far West, Cameron Rd) was crazy.

The problem with WC density is that small businesses struggle due to students having very little expendable cash. So you have a lot of empty store fronts and high turnover for retail spots. Not too many stores make it in WC. Another reason for NIMBY's to say density doesn't work.

I know me and all my friends were broke as a joke at UT. Like we didn't have money for 59 cent Taco Bell sometimes.

Ironically, some of the areas formerly populated with UT students will be our first real experiments with non student urbanity.

The site plan was posted to the AULCC page. It'll be 182 feet with 17 floors. The 17th floor is an amenity floor. The 16th floor is the last residential level. The "18th floor" appears to be the main roof.

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...pe_PLAN_01.pdf

This is probably another ugly but functional WC project. But at least it has setbacks.

https://i.imgur.com/SSCf5UN.png
ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...pe_PLAN_01.pdf

An article with a rendering from the Business Journal.

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n..._news_headline

These West Campus towers have some of the best designs in the city. It's really a shame the height limit is so low.

Respectfully disagree. To me this one looks very industrial (maybe its the color scheme?), and has that godawful staggered windows trend.
This design will not age well at all, IMO.

https://i.imgur.com/OT1J55S.jpg

On the other hand, "Hey vaporware girl, how you doin'?"

I'm digging the industrial look.

Looks very much like that other West Campus building, other than the steel industrial levels, the rest of the building could be a twin with that other one.

Damn that's fucking ugly. And another parking garage wrapped in plain metal screen. WTF is up with that trend?

Also curious as to the need for the truss structure in the big glass area....doesn't look like it's really spanning anything.

2019 Value Engineering at it's finest.

Is that a huge void where the trusses are? Maybe amenities floor?

Crane plan. This will have one tower crane.

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...0PLAN%2001.pdf

This one should be starting soon. The site plan was approved and released last Thursday.

https://abc.austintexas.gov/web/perm...ertyrsn=109528

These high density student housing blocks provide a model for affordable housing in the rest of Austin and other cities. Right now, affordable housing options in Austin are old, low rise apartments. These high density towers allow new, tall buildings to be constructed that provide a large amount of affordable apartments. The floor plans probably are not suitable for families but there are many single and childless renters in need of low cost housing.

Will this building have any ground floor retail?

UNO could be a model for many other areas of the city desperate for housing and with decent transit options. Sadly, we still give a megaphone to those who fear change (typically older, white, wealthier, central city, single family homeowners) and completely ignore the needs of the majority. Good news is, NIMBYism is being called out by more and more people.

We now have a council with seven of eleven who are not NIMBYs and one of the four sometimes tries not to be so there is hope. That said, elections are around the corner and two of the strongest housing skeptics, Pool and Alter, are up for reelection (Districts 7 and 10 respectively). More importantly in the short term we need to see what those who fight hardest to maintain exclusionary zoning are up to. Prop J died as it should but they will likely try to repeat the same kind of nonsense. Another pointless petition, a lawsuit, both?

Our land development code is garbage and the longer we keep it around the worse the housing crisis will get.

What are the black shapes in the middle of the diagram?