Council sets goal for plastic bag reductions
April 10, 2008
“The Austin City Council adopted a plan to reduce the number of plastic
bags entering the city solid waste system by 50 percent in the next
year.”
Rollingwood exists the dark ages and gets sewer sevice!
March 29, 2008
It perhaps surprised no one when Gary Keller, the chairman of Keller
Williams Realty, bought two lots in Rollingwood, razed the existing
houses and built a 7,700-square-foot Italianate estate for his family
in 2004.
Annex San Jose Coming to South Congress
March 26, 2008
The long anticipated condo project near the Hotel San Jose finally has a flashy website and a big billboard. The project will apparently include 77 condos ranging in price from $300k-$900k and may break ground before the end of this year. The condos will be south and west of the hotel (South Congress and Gibson). They are being designed as a collaboration between San Antonio’s Lake|Flato Architects (they also did the hotel) and Austin’s Hurt Partners Architects.
Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival
Thursday, April 10-Sunday, April 13
Various Venues (Austin)
Four Days of Culinary Events
[info] | [tickets]
February Condo Sales
March 24, 2008
| February | dt | 1b | 5 | 6 | 7 | ut |
| sales | 6 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 8 |
| high psf | 381 | 299 | 238 | 425 | 255 | 276 |
| low psf | 246 | 141 | 238 | 133 | 255 | 217 |
| avg psf | 315 | 204 | 238 | 250 | 255 | 246 |
| avg dom | 88 | 71 | 35 | 94 | 178 | 51 |
Arthouse expanding
March 19, 2008
Arthouse says the expansion will triple its total space from 7,000 square feet to 20,830 square feet. The two-story building, built in 1850, is four blocks south of the Capitol building. In 1920, it housed the Queen Theater and it was turned into Lerner Shops department store in the 1950s.
Villa Muse developers eye other cities
March 13, 2008
City Council really screwed this up.
Downtown living demand is strong, study shows
March 9, 2008
The steel and glass residential towers set to reshape the downtown Austin skyline aren’t a pipedream. They’re coming–and they’re going to be filled, a new study shows.
February Sales
March 1, 2008
| February | dt | 1b | 5 | 6 | 7 | ut |
| sales | 6 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 8 |
| high psf | 381 | 299 | 238 | 425 | 255 | 276 |
| low psf | 246 | 141 | 238 | 133 | 255 | 217 |
| avg psf | 315 | 204 | 238 | 250 | 255 | 246 |
| avg dom | 88 | 71 | 35 | 94 | 178 | 51 |
CL: find of the day
February 27, 2008
The urbanist in me is big fan of residing near the Commuter Rail. I’m also a huge fan of KRDB’s work.
