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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas (Post 8693788)

Tropical Storm Imelda rain over Austin yesterday.

Full sized here:

https://i.redd.it/xfjbjfcx6rn31.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/7qdpftH.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comm..._looming_rain/

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Originally Posted by dc_denizen (Post 8693952)

When are they going to develop the other side of lake Travis? That parking garage seems a waste of space

That's the Colorado River that flows through downtown. That portion of it is known as Lady Bird Lake, or Town Lake, depending on who you ask. Lake Travis is our big resevoir lake 20 miles upstream. Between Lake Travis and Town Lake is Lake Austin. They're all part of the Colorado River, and were formed with a series of dams.

Anyway, the parking garage is only about 6 years old, so it's unlikely to be going anywhere anytime soon. The Hyatt Hotel facing the river next to it built it on what was their parking lot. The other tall building to the left of the hotel is a residential building built in 2015. That whole area likely will see more buildings. I've seen artists renderings showing up to 20 mid to high rises in that area, but there's nothing specific yet being proposed. There's also another 15-story office building built at the moment just off to the lefthand side of that photo. You can see its triangular construction site.

The biggest project in this area will be the redevelopment of the 20 acre Austin American-Statesman site. In the photo, it's the big office and warehouse building hugging the shoreline. The newspaper is planning to redevelop its site with 3 1/2 million square feet of office, residential, hotel, and retail space, plus, it'll be tripling the amount of public space available there now. Austin's hike & bike trail hugs the shoreline and runs along the site. In the 80s, the American-Statesman also donated some of their land for a public space to view Austin's Mexican Free-tailed bats, which fly out from the Congress Avenue bridge during the warm months. The plan is to expand that further and to also have an extension to the existing boardwalk, which connects to the hike & bike trail, and also a new pedestrian bridge across the river. The development itself would have 6 towers. Based on the massings, the heights would be 215 feet to 525 feet. To put that into perspective, the tallest office building there would be taller than the Frost Bank Tower, which is 516 feet. It's still very early in development, and they haven't even filed anything yet with the city. I think they're still shopping for developers.

We have a thread on the development blow, and you can also read about it in the 2nd link on Towers.net, which has all the renderings of the project we've seen so far, plus some more of that overall area.

Austin | South Central Waterfront | Multiple Towers | Up to 525 Feet | Proposed
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...199758&page=15

Digging Into the Blockbuster Plan for the Austin American-Statesman Site
https://austin.towers.net/digging-in...tatesman-site/

This last link is to the article at Towers.net for RiverSouth, the 15-story office building I mentioned above. Once complete, this will actually be the tallest building in South Austin, and the tallest between Austin and San Antonio, at least until the Statesman site is redeveloped.

At RiverSouth, Austin’s South Central Waterfront Plan Takes One Small Step
https://austin.towers.net/at-riverso...ne-small-step/

There was also this rendering, and a few more showing a design that Gensler did. It included building an arena.
https://i.imgur.com/CmGqCo8.jpg