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Hotels are like airlines.  Huge fixed costs.  Limited variable costs.  Volume-cost-profit is the key.  They kill it when they kill it.  They suck when they don't.  

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16 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

someone would absolutely buy it

Don't give the city council any ideas for a new homeless shelter. 

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not exactly downtown.. but... 17 stories.

 

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1 hour ago, yoladu said:

not exactly downtown.. but... 17 stories.

 

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My thought exactly 

 

Are they mowing down that church?

It's not quite "east", but it's that tract between Dobie and the South University Avenue "promenade" that just got revamped.  It'll kinda screw up the line of sight between the tower and the capitol.  Plus there's another project in the works just north of Rowling Hall.  

It'll be called the Dolores Clitoris Complex, or Mulva Plaza, please 

5 hours ago, texasdago said:

My thought exactly 

 

Are they mowing down that church?

It will be built on the footprint of the Dobie parking garage and the adjacent parking lot to the east. University Christian Church (across the street on University Avenue) previously owned the parking lot and sold it to UT. Once the building is completed, University Christian will use the building’s garage for their congregation.

14 hours ago, royiv said:

It will be built on the footprint of the Dobie parking garage and the adjacent parking lot to the east. University Christian Church (across the street on University Avenue) previously owned the parking lot and sold it to UT. Once the building is completed, University Christian will use the building’s garage for their congregation.

Gotcha... that makes sense.  

On 6/13/2024 at 6:23 PM, royiv said:

It will be built on the footprint of the Dobie parking garage and the adjacent parking lot to the east. University Christian Church (across the street on University Avenue) previously owned the parking lot and sold it to UT. Once the building is completed, University Christian will use the building’s garage for their congregation.

Hey I used to run sound at that church in high school.  That's all I got.

  • 1 month later...

I'm looking at the bottom right, I think I see Nicole.  

My oldest loves to talk about all the tall buildings and "what that's name?"  "Is that one gonna be a hotel?"  "How will that one be compared to the Jenga building?  

We happened to be driving over the bridge by Rainey and the SE of the CBD today.  And she started firing off questions that I used to know the answers to.  But it was just one "I dunno" after another from me.

Whenever we go on the Ladybird elevated trail or just the hike 'n bike, she still says, "I don't understand why you could look at that lake and buildings but instead they used that white building to print newspapers?"  

-Yeah sweetie, the city that won't grant us permits for months on end thought it'd be great to have one of the most prominent spots 'downtown' to be a windowless factory where they used---what's that---cadmium to print papers 9 feet from its most precious waterway.  But you see, the paperboys had to stop by there to get their papers...so they carved out a bike lane to make it safe.  And they haven's stopped making bike lanes ever since because .......ahhhhhh......what the hell were we talking about again?  

Someone has to be a pig infested with maggots, right?

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Not downtown, but we don't have a N Lamar/183 thread.

 

Maybe we have a new downtown going on?

In Sunny North Austin, a 350-Foot Building Ain’t Nothing To Sneeze At

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MLK and Guadalupe is going to be a nightmare

 

1 hour ago, MAUFRAIS said:

Pizza Hut’s never coming back is it?

I'm still mad Wendy's went away.

On 8/20/2024 at 6:33 PM, Biff Tannen said:

I'm still mad Wendy's went away.

You don't like shitty Cane's chicken tenders?

MLK and Guadalupe is going to be a nightmare
 

Project Connect plans to close Guadalupe north of MLK, so maybe more of a how the heck do you go north thing…

The courthouse parking will be a nightmare. The construction workers will monopolize all the street parking during construction. That UT system garage across the street is already a nightmare.

On 8/26/2024 at 10:07 PM, Texas Jeff said:


Project Connect plans to close Guadalupe north of MLK, so maybe more of a how the heck do you go north thing…

Never.  Gonna.  Happen.

21 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

Never.  Gonna.  Happen.

It’s amazing to me how the largest infrastructure project ever approved by Austin voters, which has been collecting taxes for almost four years, has gone completely silent. How are people in Austin not making a fuss about not knowing what the hell is going on over at ATP?

28 minutes ago, royiv said:

It’s amazing to me how the largest infrastructure project ever approved by Austin voters, which has been collecting taxes for almost four years, has gone completely silent. How are people in Austin not making a fuss about not knowing what the hell is going on over at ATP?

Because they're used to it.

After spending a month in Madrid where half the highways are buried and there’s subways everywhere I just can’t understand why the economics of doing the same here are so terrible.  

On 8/27/2024 at 5:27 PM, Deej said:

The courthouse parking will be a nightmare. The construction workers will monopolize all the street parking during construction. That UT system garage across the street is already a nightmare.

I got a jury duty notice for that courthouse which opened way back in 2023.  The instructions to prospective jurors included a suggestion to park in the UT system garage.
Why the hell did Travis County build a brand new family law court building without enough parking for prospective jurors?

I get that there is a parking shortage around the main courthouse because it's pre-WWII but this was a brand new building.

19 hours ago, LCHorn said:

After spending a month in Madrid where half the highways are buried and there’s subways everywhere I just can’t understand why the economics of doing the same here are so terrible.  

I love the system in Madrid. It makes everything so easy. 

There are a lot of factors that make it harder here such as density and our cities are already built for cars. But I think the number one reason is that the public doesn’t truly demand it. A train system is a basic expectation in Europe and much of Asia. Here it is a “nice to have” outside of NYC and Chicago (kinda).

My other hot take is that American cities like to half ass projects. It doesn’t really work for rail. You either need a complete system that allows people to not buy a car or just don’t bother. Example: Austin’s red line. It’s better than nothing but I still need a car.

1 hour ago, Larry T. Spider said:

A train system is a basic expectation in Europe and much of Asia.

Because that's how it has been since the beginning of time.  Madrid didn't wait until 2020 to throw rails down.

Always cracks me up when they put 2 buildings so close together.  How the fuck do you sell/lease space on the sides facing each other?

 

On 8/30/2024 at 1:40 PM, Mittens said:

Always cracks me up when they put 2 buildings so close together.  How the fuck do you sell/lease space on the sides facing each other?

 

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I've never understood this project.  Building shit just to build it.

 

9 minutes ago, Mittens said:

I've never understood this project.  Building shit just to build it.

 

Community amenities, yo. It’s what adds character to a city.

That will be way better than crossing on the dam.

How so?  I cross that dam every other week or so via the hike and bike.  

Did you also prefer crossing on the old lamar bridge?

The old Lamar bridge didn't have a brand new wide ass sidewalk on it.

pretty sure that sidewalk is just the ghetto stopgap put in after they announced the new bridge to last until it was completed.  sounds like it's good enough for you though.

Not really sure what you mean by ghetto stopgap, but there's a brand new sidewalk on the East side of Pleasant Valley from Lakeshore to Canterbury, and it looks like the West side is getting an update as well.

18 hours ago, Mittens said:

I've never understood this project.  Building shit just to build it.

 

It's a pedestrian bridge. Not a lot to get. Much nicer and safer than walking next to 4000lb hunks of metal going 40 mph. 

On 9/22/2024 at 11:01 AM, Mittens said:

 

 

Liked that one a lot more when it was proposed at twice the height.

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I still don't get how this costs $70 million. Just doesn't seem like we are getting very much for such a large amount of money. 

I like “Declutterring the top of the Tower.” Has @Mitch Cumsteen’s wife been using the roof for storage?

I still don't get how this costs $70 million. Just doesn't seem like we are getting very much for such a large amount of money. 

They are using a buy one get two free special on the windows so it could be even more without that

Buddy of mine shot this on the way to LAX this morning:
 

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17 hours ago, Mittens said:

Buddy of mine shot this on the way to LAX this morning:
 

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lots of flat developable land in east Austin, eh?

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