I love how Austin's skyline is developing along the water of Ladybird Lake. I for one would like to see some development on the other side. We have the proposal to the west of the Hyatt Regency that looks great, but that whole block that the Austin Statesman and a couple of other low-slung office building takes up bounded by Congress on the West and Riverside on the south is screaming for redevelopment. Doesn't have to be really tall, but a handful of buildings in the 15-25 story range that step down to the South Congress neighborhood would be amazing. There's so much surface parking on that property that could be better utilized.
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"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
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