East Austin Developments
 

As I live across the street from this site I'm happy to post its progress. Thanks for finding Urbanizer


2400 East 6th (just west of Pedernales and south of Hidalgo) was recently rezoned to 'CS-V' and is slated to have 208 homes plus ground floor retail. http://tcr.com/new_development/alexan-east-6th/.


According to a Trammell Crow rep I contacted they look to break ground within the next 60 days. The current plan is to allow pedestrian and bike access to the western side of the property (next to the Cap Metro line) between 6th and Hidalgo which is huge! The grid in this area is amazing and I'm happy that TRC had the foresight to include this important connection.


Here's an early rendering:
http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag388/GregorioAustin/alexane6thlong_zpscsubihar.png


And here is the site as seen from my balcony:
http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag388/GregorioAustin/e%206th_zpsgb1ikcn7.jpg



The project includes the western half of this property. If you look carefully at the above photo and can make out the long wall with the ~20' wide overhead door, this building and it's neighbor to the east (one building but the roof makes it look like two) will remain and is still zoned 'LI' I believe.

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TBH, at this point I think we need a catchall East Side VMU thread, just like we have for S. Lamar and North Burnet rather than creating standalone threads which after a few posts don't receive any attention at all.

Also, although I had already added the project to the map, I've added this thread to the project descrip.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zGWUrSIhUCms.kFyc1SOGTRGA

Prolly not a bad idea on having an eastside thread--I'm happy to launch it. But as this one is the most front and center project I've ever had I'd like to keep it as a stand alone--it will not be forgotten

An Eastside thread would get rather busy what with Plaza Saltillo, 12th st CVS development, Eastside Village, 7EAST, etc.

By the way, I went to a neighborhood meeting to discuss the 12th St CVS project and the developer was there to show off some very nice renderings of what was in store. Looks like the large grocery store on the ground floor will likely be an HEB and there will be two residential towers above it.

We had a brief discussion in the update thread about the CVC project with the grocery store last December after it showed up on the last Emerging Project list:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6856487&postcount=1342

This project had 600 units which is a lot even for such a large site. Putting them in two towers would seem to increase the chance for approval since it would shorten the project. How tall do you estimate the two towers were in the renderings?

They want to build 200 ft tall and the CVC from 11th st is unaffected (so is that credit union). Here's a crappy pic I managed to snap at the meeting:

http://i.imgur.com/j4VzWaB.png

Wow. That's pretty damned tall.

No busier than either our south lamar or north burnet threads.

That is pretty tall. I wonder if it'll be allowed.

They can build 150 ft right now with no neighborhood approval, they are asking for an extra 50 ft. They will likely get it.

As previously suggested, I think the name of this thread should be changed to "East Austin Projects" or something similar. There are a lot of projects happening east of I-35 worth discussing, and a thread based on only one of them will go to the bottom of the compost pile. Here's an aerial from about a month ago showing Eastside Village. But I don't recall what the huge project on the right is called:

http://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/7fca525a-b94c-4dc2-ba5d-3e912d18b047-large.jpeg
https://twitter.com/buildandres

I'm all for a catch all East side thread. As a long time East side resident there are many projects I have been watching but are not worthy of their own threads. It would be nice to have a place to post photos and updates.

Agreed that 78702/east side needs a thread of its own.

Eastside Village has been moving very quickly. If I remember this was the old Arnold Oil site and will probably be a long line of industrial to residential transformations.

Austin Restore has a sign up that they are moving. I was thinking it was to somewhere in South Austin but can't recall.

The proposed 65 room hotel on C. Chavez was shot down by the planning commission despite the fact that it was zoned for this use and the developer was not asking for any variances. Speakers against the project did not like the restaurant/bar component; increases to number of cars on C. Chavez; and the "Rainey-ization" of this corridor.

I believe they are moving into the old Chuck E. Cheese location on Ben White.

Eastside Village

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/312/19108183406_dd203fcb8c_b.jpg

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/520/18511828444_68c2829b97_b.jpg

7 East

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3747/18946640440_65452b48b0_b.jpg

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/384/19137764521_0417d83248_b.jpg

There's an interesting little subdivision going in at Webberville and Pleasant Valley next door to ACC. Looks like it's going to be pretty dense, although for some reason they are being marketed as "Modern Farm Homes." It doest seem like there would be much room to plant crops in the ten feet or so between the units, but whatever.

http://i.imgur.com/Es547xZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/LdewpZZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Sr6bwUt.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/OWap8AM.jpg

I really like the three story design. Three bedroom homes start at about $400K.


EDIT: The farm names comes from the proximity to two urban farms.

It's happening!! I've stared for five yrs at this big-ole white wall--happy to see it get recycled

http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag38...D-4BBB-8C6F-4B4C5ACE85CB_zpsnwx9rg6a.jpg

Very cool - that'll be another great addition to the area.

Has there been any talk at all about adding a MetroRail station at that bend in the tracks? There is already a lot of residential development there and it's a little too far away from Plaza Saltillo to be a comfortable walk for a downtown trip.

I have not heard anything. Right now CapMetro has plans to expand the CC stop and add rail cars. The only other stop I've even heard rumors about is Hancock at IH-35, but nothing definite.

I read an article somewhere today that said there will be an orchard on site, and each house will have its own tree or trees. It was unclear to me how this would work.

Each house will get either one apple or persimmon tree. There's a reason apples come from Michigan and Washington. They do not do well here, and that's an understatement.

The "orchard" will be a couple rows of trees between the backs of the houses and the sidewalk on the Pleasant Valley side.

http://i.imgur.com/fBdt08I.jpg

http://orchardeast.com/availability/

Demo of a warehouse at 4th & Chicon is scheduled for 08/01 to make way for this condo project:

http://media.bizj.us/view/img/6555272/fourth-rendering-web.jpg
Story from the ABJ: http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/r...t-austin-mixed-use-project-unveiled.html

Must be this project Lone Star Mike posted about back in April.

Looks similar.

Nice to see some higher buildings being established in East Austin. If they go further east it will be harder because of all the sandy loam under the foundations.

Austin Business Journal
Too much, too fast? In East Austin there's a call to halt new development
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/r...ast-in-east-austin-theres-a-call-to.html

This sounds like what was recently proposed, but failed, in SF's Mission district.

There are already a number of neighborhood comp plans in effect already and I worry that a new combined plan would take years to complete, making the length of the moratorium completely unreasonable.

This is the warehouse that will be demoed for this project. No great loss and you can see that it butts up to the East Side Station Apartment project currently under construction on the old El Lago tortilla factory site.

http://eastsidestationapts.com/

http://i.imgur.com/kOeK50P.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1UbMr8v.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/5xsPzAj.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xsl32K8.jpg

Judging by the rendering this project will be getting the Great Streets treatment, which will be nice since this is the current state of the sidewalks along Chicon.

http://i.imgur.com/pg6QeM4.jpg

One thing I'm not crazy about is that the entire stretch of 4th Street will be lined with upscale apartments and condos on the North side while the whole South side is is taken up by Chalmers Court, one of the nations oldest public housing projects.

http://i.imgur.com/qapQeBl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KBmMGdI.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bKPsjl4.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Q1XKnLu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/y0X4ffF.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NCyo6W2.jpg

To the North of the Eastside Station Apartments the Eastside Village is slowly coming along on the old Arnold Oil site.

http://i.imgur.com/jnPiJbg.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9F4nlqv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6BPLO8p.jpg

A stone facade is going up on the office building, hopefully it will make it look less like a parking garage.

http://i.imgur.com/hImWKBH.jpg

The elevator shaft gives you an idea of the overall height of this project.

http://i.imgur.com/OOMVLGF.jpg

Excellent update. :tup:

I just noticed that a lot of these areas are updated on Google Earth street view also. Haven't checked much else in Austin, just glanced at these areas in East Austin.

This was the first I've heard of great streets treatment for Chicon, but I'm am happy to see this happening. The name of the 4th/Chicon project is befuddling.......

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/r...t-austin-mixed-use-project-unveiled.html

"The 130,000-square-foot residential condo and commercial project — dubbed Fourth & — will be built at Fourth and Chicon streets in a flourishing area of East Austin.
"We wanted to make a statement with the name — an open-ended statement," Clouse said in an exclusive interview with Austin Business Journal.
Fourth & could mean anything from Fourth & creativity to Fourth & sustainability — whatever anyone wants it to be, he said."

Here's some photos I took over the weekend

Alexan East 6th

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/398/19655870254_8623ba6fdd_h.jpg

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5617/20090556138_db416c0ad7_h.jpg

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/455/20091941229_9fb4c17290_h.jpg

Eastside Station

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/417/20284183541_7e7491a3b4_h.jpg

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/480/20252010286_e641c877de_h.jpg

The Arnold

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/397/20089860048_4ace3c5a1f_h.jpg

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/255/20283857631_41c2307fd7_h.jpg

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/414/20251688086_b45638b0e2_h.jpg

1802 East 6th

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/471/19657620803_f85a819f09_h.jpg

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/508/19657626433_4dbd0d774e_h.jpg

The building being remodeled in the last two pics (1802 E 6th) is Bridget Dunlap's newest Italian restaurant which is tentatively named "Burn".

This website for "Fourth&" confirms that it is indeed the same project.

http://www.fourthandaustin.com/

7East

http://www.bigreddog.com/under-construction-7east-in-austin-texas/

http://www.bigreddog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/7East-2-768x1024.jpg

http://www.bigreddog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/7East-3-768x1024.jpg

http://www.bigreddog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/7East-4-577x1024.jpg

I was wondering what the hold up was with Endeavor and the Saltillo tract project:

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/loc...statesmanpremium#9c8d04a9.3948020.735832

The Arnold is making some progress.

http://i.imgur.com/95Ce7yq.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ReA336a.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/mh5cqkT.jpg

The office building is getting windows and looking a little less like a parking garage.

http://i.imgur.com/Lw0hjUp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/3hBY52C.jpg

I found some new renderings on their facebook page.

http://i.imgur.com/FNphJXe.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/FoA9xJG.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Arnold/1417342531921013

On the other side of the tracks the old warehouse at 5th and Chicon is now gone making way for more condos.

http://i.imgur.com/BaKEiWp.jpg

East Side Station Apartment project looks to be about topped out. I'm curious about what kind of exterior finish it will have since I haven't been able to find and renderings for it.

http://i.imgur.com/MlH3Add.jpg

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but a site plan was filed yesterday for City Line at MLK - a TOD apparently. None of the constant flow of east side projects seem to stand out to me, so I don't keep track of them.

https://www.austintexas.gov/devreview/b_showpublicpermitfolderdetails.jsp?FolderRSN=11408230

Here's a rendering:
http://www.citylineaustin.com/uploads/5/2/7/5/52758299/3804615_orig.jpg
http://www.citylineaustin.com/about.html

Is this really the best we can do in terms of TOD density? Surely there is demand for more multifamily units in transit-accessible places like MLK no?

Are you calling for more quantity of projects or greater density in this individual project? I'm sure we will see many more of these slowly filling in areas of the east side, except for those occupied by affordable housing. I really hope we find a way increase density of the existing low density affordable housing so there is a cohesive neighborhood. Otherwise there are going to be patches of low density housing breaking up neighborhoods.

Optimistically, in the 5-year time frame there is going to be quite an urban neighborhood from E. 6th up to Airport with some clusters around each red line stop. Originally I didn't see the benefit of building the red line on the east side, but it's becoming apparent as development follows transportation. Those who are tragically dead set on the urban rail "locally preferred alignment" should take note.

Sorry for getting slightly off topic. If you haven't driven around south/central East Austin, I'd recommend a bike tour for viewing new density slowly creeping in around Manor and MLK.

Last time I was in Austin I visited some friends who live on Manor. It is really impressive, little by little. I like the feel of the area.

Or ride MetroRail to experience all the construction happening around it.

I'm calling for greater density in each of these projects in the TOD districts. Instead of 2-3 story buildings I'd like to see some 5-6 story (or greater) buildings. It just seems like a wasted opportunity, and the demand is clearly there.

I take the RedLine to work from MLK to Kramer every day and see how much demand there is for this service, despite its high fare.

I would completely agree. Looking at what Denver has done, for example, with TOD is really impressive. TOD can create a sense of place (as a neighborhood entry point) and gives good clusters of retail and offices. Would love to see more density built into TOD in East Austin.

I agree, but I also think that a lot of these developments are at least steps in the right direction. There's just the danger of the most prime spots losing out to shorter, less dense developments, of course. However, it has to start somewhere and I think what's happening isn't the best, but it's certainly not terrible.