Austin | 6G | 874 Feet | 65 Floors | Complete - Page 14

masonh2479 · #**261** Posted **Sep 22, 2017, 10:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

FAA filings have a construction schedule. This is for 600 Guadalupe:

Work Schedule: 08/07/2018 to 12/31/2021

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...862656&row=232

Hopefully all goes to schedule, height stays above 800ft.

StoOgE · #**262** Posted **Sep 22, 2017, 11:14 PM**

This feels like a thing that is happening for real.

Wow.

The ATX · #**263** Posted **Sep 22, 2017, 11:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by StoOgE

This feels like a thing that is happening for real.

Wow.

It does seem to have a lot of momentum. I'm wondering if they have a big office tenant already lined up?

the Genral · #**264** Posted **Sep 23, 2017, 12:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

It does seem to have a lot of momentum. I'm wondering if they have a big office tenant already lined up?

Amazon

We vs us · #**265** Posted **Sep 23, 2017, 2:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

It does seem to have a lot of momentum. I'm wondering if they have a big office tenant already lined up?

This is totally the truth. The relative lack of public press and governmental friction is really remarkable for one of the biggest projects in DT Austin. And yeah, to get something like this off the ground you'd think there'd have to be some major commitments already inked. AND that we haven't heard about who that might be is also another significant mystery. This is still a small town, and people normally talk.

The ATX · #**266** Posted **Sep 23, 2017, 9:13 PM**

This project needs a density bonus (FAR increase) so it should be discussed at a Design Commission meeting in the near future. Hopefully we'll get more info soon. Much of the focus at these meetings is about street level interaction.

Strayone · #**267** Posted **Oct 3, 2017, 6:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by masonh2479

Hopefully all goes to schedule, height stays above 800ft.

How often do they do a Faa filing if a project is speculative? This really is a go by the look of things. So by next August does dirt start moving? And a set design is a done deal. I was in Mpl this last wkend and they just haven't built anything in about 25 yrs. We have what I think is a more interesting and appealing SL then MPS but not the balance and quite the height. This is a real statement tower. Please let it be a real project because I fear we are running out of prime properties for such grand projects!

JACKinBeantown · #**268** Posted **Oct 3, 2017, 6:46 PM**

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Please let it be a real project because I fear we are running out of prime properties for such grand projects!

Nah. In New York they tear down 20-story buildings to put up 60-story ones.

StoOgE · #**269** Posted **Oct 5, 2017, 2:45 PM**

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Nah. In New York they tear down 20-story buildings to put up 60-story ones.

Austin has plenty of stubby parking garages and sub 200 foot buildings that are prime to go in the next 20 years.

I'm looking at you: all those parking garages with 4 stories of office on top.

jbssfelix · #**270** Posted **Oct 5, 2017, 7:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by StoOgE

Austin has plenty of stubby parking garages and sub 200 foot buildings that are prime to go in the next 20 years.

I'm looking at you: all those parking garages with 4 stories of office on top.

What about 8-story garages with an office on top?

Armybrat · #**271** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 12:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by StoOgE

Austin has plenty of stubby parking garages and sub 200 foot buildings that are prime to go in the next 20 years.

I'm looking at you: all those parking garages with 4 stories of office on top.

Hope "they" leave the Norwood Tower alone!

StoOgE · #**272** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 4:48 AM**

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Hope "they" leave the Norwood Tower alone!

Norwood needs to be protected.

Geckos_Rule · #**273** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 5:22 AM**

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Norwood needs to be protected.

It's already a historic landmark, is it not?

KevinFromTexas · #**274** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 5:37 AM**

Austin has so few old high rises already. Counting the Capitol and UT Tower, we only have 10 buildings over 115 feet tall that were built in 1940 or earlier. There are much smaller cities in Texas with not a whole lot fewer. Even Beaumont has 6. That suggests our economy was only about as large as theirs was around that time and it wasn't until much later that we started to grow.

austlar1 · #**275** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 5:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Austin has so few old high rises already. Counting the Capitol and UT Tower, we only have 10 buildings over 115 feet tall that were built in 1940 or earlier. There are much smaller cities in Texas with not a whole lot fewer. Even Beaumont has 6. That suggests our economy was only about as large as theirs was around that time and it wasn't until much later that we started to grow.

Austin's economy was probably bigger than the other small Texas cities, but it was based mostly on state of Texas and UT payrolls. These entities were housed in their own low rise facilities, so there was little need for downtown office buildings at the time. There are a surprising number of smaller Texas cities that had a fair number of 8 to 12 story buildings built mostly in the 1920s. Texarkana is a prime example. The ghostly shells of some of those buildings still dot the downtown landscape there. Check out these pics. https://blog.atmtxphoto.com/2017/07/...-of-texarkana/

Armybrat · #**276** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 9:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Geckos_Rule

It's already a historic landmark, is it not?

Yesterday while cleaning out my desk, I found an old drawstring heavy cloth Capitol National Bank bag with a picture of the Norwood Tower & the bank (now Perry's) on it. lol

The ATX · #**277** Posted **Nov 5, 2017, 12:05 AM**

Bump. This dropped to the last thread of the first page. We can't let our potential new tallest end up on Page 2 with the 416 Congress Hotel.

No new updates, but Gensler added this project to their featured Austin projects page on their website:

https://www.gensler.com/projects/600...treet?o=austin

clubtokyo · #**278** Posted **Nov 5, 2017, 3:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

Bump. This dropped to the last thread of the first page. We can't let our potential new tallest end up on Page 2 with the 416 Congress Hotel.

No new updates, but Gensler added this project to their featured Austin projects page on their website:

https://www.gensler.com/projects/600...treet?o=austin

I agree!

Armybrat · #**279** Posted **Nov 5, 2017, 6:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by clubtokyo

I agree!

Is there any reason why they can't expand that outdoor "green" space on top of the parking garage by cantilevering it outwards by 10 or 15 feet on each side (except over the historic house on the NE corner)? That would add a considerable amount of open air rooftop space.

ahealy · #**280** Posted **Nov 13, 2017, 4:00 PM**

any news on this baby?