AUSTIN | Southeast Austin/Riverside Corridor Updates

[Urbannizer]

Planning Commission OKs housing in industrial area

The Planning Commission on Tuesday supported a rezoning that could bring apartments to an industrial area at the corner of Burleson Road and Montopolis Drive in Southeast Austin.

The case concerns properties at 6300 and 6410 Burleson Road. One of the properties is undeveloped and the other has two small businesses. The applicant hopes to rezone the properties, which total 4.77 acres, from Limited Industrial Services (LI-NP) to Vertical Mixed-Use (CS-MU-V-NP) zoning to allow a mixed-use project.

A conceptual rendering shows a 5-story residential building with ground-floor retail. It is unclear how many units the project would have, but at least 10 percent would be affordable for those making 60 percent of the median family income if the project takes advantage of VMU zoning.

[chinchaaa]

that location kind of sucks today, but I will be very curious to check back in a decade. tons of breweries and food trucks over there plus it will be right along the Bergstrom Spur trail they're about to start on. it might be pretty easy to hop on a bike from there and be west of 35 pretty quickly.

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Riverside Place

Riverside Place Could Be Austin’s Next Big Strip Mall Redevelopment

A demolition permit filed with the city earlier this month could point to a redevelopment of the Riverside Place shopping center in Southeast Austin. Located at 2410 East Riverside Drive near the intersection with South Pleasant Valley Road, the approximately 10-acre strip mall was purchased in 2019 by an LLC associated with local development firm Endeavor Real Estate Group, and the demolition permit for the shopping center filed earlier this June by engineering company GarzaEMC was billed to Endeavor — considering the firm’s ongoing portfolio of large-scale mixed-use redevelopments around town, including sites like the Statesman headquarters, Saltillo, and the Borden Dairy Plant, it’s not hard to imagine what Endeavor might have in mind for the future of this property.

[AustinPermitWatcher]

Some movement on the Riverpark development (4700 E Riverside) this week. Permit filed for "license agreement". Purpose from the application: to temporarily encroach into a public right-of-way, alley, or an easement for the private use of a structure or improvement. Seems like they're still pushing this along while working on the Site Plan Source

[Urbannizer]

Southeast Austin’s Oracle Campus Planning Office and Hotel Addition

The sprawling waterfront headquarters of software multinational Oracle Corporation could soon expand once again in Southeast Austin, according to recent city permits. The firm, which opened a large office campus on South Lakeshore Boulevard in 2018 and designated the site as its new corporate headquarters two years later, currently owns approximately 50 acres on the southeast shore of Lady Bird Lake under the terms of a Planned Unit Development (PUD) agreement with the City of Austin.

A proposal to modify that PUD was filed with the city late last month by Oracle’s representatives at local land use law firm Armbrust & Brown, with the requested amendment to the agreement adding an approximately 2.34-acre tract of land currently occupied by the Town Lake Village Condos to the planned development district, seemingly as the first step of a larger project across multiple Oracle-owned properties in this area. Oracle previously negotiated a buyout of the 74-unit Town Lake Village community in 2021, with a reported sales price north of $43 million, and secured city approval for the site’s demolition in 2022.

While the finer details of the project are not entirely clear from available documents, adding the Town Lake Village property to the area’s existing PUD is intended as the first step for an expansion of Oracle’s corporate campus into the western side of the development area, with a new 287,000-square-foot office building joining the three existing office structures now standing at the site — which together contain roughly one million square feet of space already — along with a 255-room hotel containing a conference center, event center, and fitness facility for Oracle employees.

[AustinPermitWatcher]

Originally Posted by AustinPermitWatcher

Some movement on the Riverpark development (4700 E Riverside) this week. Permit filed for "license agreement". Purpose from the application: to temporarily encroach into a public right-of-way, alley, or an easement for the private use of a structure or improvement. Seems like they're still pushing this along while working on the Site Plan Source

Another permit filed yesterday for the actual demolition for the Block D portion of the project. This is still moving along.

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

[gillynova]

That's looking nice!

[clubtokyo]

Agree looks good for that plot!

[gillynova]

[Urbannizer]

The Summit: 1605 East Riverside

A site plan was filed for a six or maybe seven-story condo building for this ugly stretch of E. Riverside. There will be 72 condos and some ground floor retail. The project is called The Summit and the address is 1605 E. Riverside.

[gillynova]

Love me some good news

[myBrain]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

The Summit: 1605 East Riverside

That's a really narrow lot. Never would've expected something this size to be developed here. Hopefully there are some sidewalk improvements because this stretch of Riverside is really unwalkable.

[clubtokyo]

Nice!!

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Now underway.






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[gillynova]

Perfect! Thanks for posting the photos

[myBrain]

Glad to see the density on Riverside but it's a huge bummer there's not more retail. I walked through the area this past weekend from the trail and while it's impressive how much construction has taken place (some of it better than your avg 5-over-2) it still feels extremely suburban. Like, there's more life on the streets in my north-central neighborhood than here. Outside of the Buzzmill and Jackalope and a few strip mall joints fronting Riverside, there's just nothing to do here. It blows my mind that developers haven't made better use of the riverfront space, it would be perfect for cafes fronting the park. Instead we get suburban office campuses (Oracle) and first floor apartments in a neighborhood that should be one of our most urban. I guess the redevelopment further east, if it goes through, will bring more life to the area.

[We vs us]

Originally Posted by myBrain

Glad to see the density on Riverside but it's a huge bummer there's not more retail. I walked through the area this past weekend from the trail and while it's impressive how much construction has taken place (some of it better than your avg 5-over-2) it still feels extremely suburban. Like, there's more life on the streets in my north-central neighborhood than here. Outside of the Buzzmill and Jackalope and a few strip mall joints fronting Riverside, there's just nothing to do here. It blows my mind that developers haven't made better use of the riverfront space, it would be perfect for cafes fronting the park. Instead we get suburban office campuses (Oracle) and first floor apartments in a neighborhood that should be one of our most urban. I guess the redevelopment further east, if it goes through, will bring more life to the area.

It's weird because many of these new apartment buildings aren't built up to the street. In many places the suburban commercial plats are (for gas stations, single story shopping centers, drive through restaurants, banks, etc) are still dominating the sidewalk frontage.

Eventually someone's going to have to come in and reconcept those separately into something else more dense.

[mumu]

I'm surprised that project is moving forward given the problems with vacancy in this submarket.

Entire new buildings nearby are being kept off the market now. 1700 Willow Creek ("Sondery") completed construction well over a year ago and still sits completely vacant- over 300 apartment units.

[chinchaaa]

They need a few good businesses in that area. An MML restaurant, foxtrot, bars, book store, something.